{"id":344426,"date":"2026-07-18T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344426\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T12:05:08","slug":"florida-panthers-suspend-equipment-manager-after-domestic-violence-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344426\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers suspend equipment manager after domestic violence arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 18, 2026 at 7:40 AM<\/p>\n<p>A Florida Panthers employee has been suspended after being arrested Friday on domestic violence and unauthorized use of 911 services charges, the team confirmed.   <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CORAL SPRINGS, Fla,  \u2014 A Florida Panthers employee has been suspended after being arrested Friday on domestic violence and unauthorized use of 911 services charges, the team confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A Panthers spokesperson told Local 10 News in a statement that they are aware of the incident involving head equipment manager Thaddeus James Richards, who is known as \u201cTeddy,\u201d and have suspended him from all team activities and team facilities pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to jail records, Richards, 43, was arrested by the Coral Springs Police Department and booked into the Broward County Main Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show Richards is facing one count each of domestic battery involving touch or strike and unauthorized use of 911 services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News has requested Richards\u2019 arrest report from the Broward County State Attorney\u2019s Office. Details surrounding the allegations were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Saturday morning, Richards remains at the Broward County Main Jail, where his bond has not yet been determined. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 18, 2026 at 7:40 AM A Florida Panthers employee has been suspended after being arrested Friday on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-344426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344426","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=344426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}