{"id":40457,"date":"2025-11-10T03:31:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40457\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T03:31:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T03:31:19","slug":"man-arrested-after-slapping-a-jacksonville-deputys-horse-at-florida-georgia-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/40457\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after slapping a Jacksonville deputy\u2019s horse at Florida-Georgia game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A court date has been set for a man who slapped a police horse during last weekend\u2019s Florida-Georgia game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">38-year-old Ritchie Ward will be arraigned later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jacksonville sheriff\u2019s deputies say last week, he walked up to a deputy on horseback and slapped the equine\u2019s behind.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies say the police horse, named \u201cAce\u201d, was in distress after the smack and Ward was put in cuffs shortly after.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; A court date has been set for a man who slapped a police horse&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[17841,20724,116,118,117,1415,1872,26999],"class_list":{"0":"post-40457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-florida-georgia-game","9":"tag-horse","10":"tag-jacksonville","11":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","12":"tag-jacksonville-news","13":"tag-jacksonville-sheriffs-office","14":"tag-jso","15":"tag-ritchie-ward"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457","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=40457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}