{"id":311468,"date":"2026-06-18T07:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311468\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T07:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T07:50:11","slug":"faizon-love-arrested-for-contempt-of-court-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/311468\/","title":{"rendered":"Faizon Love arrested for contempt of court in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Faizon Love was arrested in Tampa and charged with two counts of contempt of court, according to jail records.<\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Known for roles in movies like The Elf<\/a> and Friday<\/a>, the California-based actor Faizon Love, 58, was placed under arrest in Tampa on Tuesday, jail records show.<\/p>\n

According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, Love is currently held at Orient Road Jail, charged with two counts of contempt of court for missing a hearing and providing financial support to Tiffany Lee, the mother of Love’s child.<\/p>\n


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Court records reviewed by 10 Tampa Bay News indicate that a judge issued an order to bring Love into custody last month “to serve a 90 day sentence for indirect civil contempt of Court,” records show. Love “failed to appear for a hearing which took place on April 8, 2026, and failed to provide a full and complete financial affidavit and supporting documents, both after being specifically ordered to do so.”<\/p>\n

Additionally, records state that Love failed to surrender himself to jail on May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

Love’s lawyer, Glen Lansky, filed a motion for extension of time to respond to requests for support by Tiffany Lee, on June 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Faizon Love was arrested in Tampa and charged with two counts of contempt of court, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-311468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311468","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=311468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}