{"id":344975,"date":"2026-07-19T03:39:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344975\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T03:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:39:31","slug":"longtime-florida-panthers-equipment-manager-suspended-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344975\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime Florida Panthers equipment manager suspended after arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Panthers equipment manager Thaddeus \u201cTeddy\u201d Richards was arrested on Friday and has been indefinitely suspended by the Panthers.<\/p>\n<p>Richards, 43, is facing two charges \u2014 touch or strike\/battery\/domestic violence and unauthorized use of 911 services \u2014 according to his case docket on the Broward County Clerk of Courts website Friday. Both are classified as misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>The Panthers in a statement Friday said they have been \u201cmade aware of an incident involving the arrest of Equipment Manager Teddy Richards\u201d and that Richards, who has been in his role since 2016-17, is suspended from all team activities and facilities \u201cpending investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To read the full report, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nhl\/florida-panthers\/article316556868.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here for miamiherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Panthers equipment manager Thaddeus \u201cTeddy\u201d Richards was arrested on Friday and has been indefinitely suspended by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,16995,114,5691,110],"class_list":["post-344975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-florida-panthers","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344975","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=344975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}