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<\/p>\nLARGO, Fla – Perhaps Jordan Cotto had a real beef with the victim, but his choice to launch his lunch created some legal trouble for him.<\/p>\n
Dealing with that fallout of his actions will be no Cheeseburger in Paradise for the Illinois man as he got charged with a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n
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Courtesy: Pinellas County Jail <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, Jordan Cotto worked at the Atlantis Gentleman\u2019s club at one point. On Saturday, he went there to confront management.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As he got into an argument with Stephan Hicks, Cotto retrieved a cheeseburger from his vehicle and threw it at Hicks, striking him in the left shoulder.<\/p>\n
OTHER NEWS: Florida mother accused of forcing 11-year-old daughter to perform sex acts on video could face death penalty<\/a><\/p>\n Was it a slider? We\u2019re not sure, but the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office had been called about the argument, and when Deputy Demitri Ahart arrived, he interviewed both Hicks and Cotto.<\/p>\n Ahart wrote in the report that Cotto admitted that he threw the cheeseburger and that he would do it again.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Cotto was charged with simple battery, a misdemeanor. He was released on his own recognizance and ordered to stay away from Hicks with no direct or indirect contact.<\/p>\n The Source: This story was written based on the arrest report and court information for Jordan Cotto.<\/p>\n Pinellas County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LARGO, Fla – Perhaps Jordan Cotto had a real beef with the victim, but his choice to launch…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}