{"id":5152,"date":"2025-10-15T17:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5152\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:48:08","slug":"st-petersburg-man-jailed-for-battery-with-a-burger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/5152\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg man jailed for battery with a burger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LARGO, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A St. Petersburg man is being charged with battery with a cheeseburger, Pinellas County Court records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Oct. 11, a Pinellas County sheriff\u2019s deputy responded to a call to the Atlantis Gentlemen\u2019s Club on 66th Street North at about 9:30 p.m. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to the arrest affidavit, a former employee of the club, identified as Jordan Cotto, 26, got into a verbal argument with a manager. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At some point, Cotto grabbed a cheeseburger from his vehicle and threw it at the manager, which \u201cstruck the victim in the left upper shoulder,\u201d the affidavit said, \u201cand did cause bodily harm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The affidavit did not describe the extent of injuries the cheeseburger caused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The affidavit also said after Cotto was advised of his rights, Cotto told a deputy he did throw a cheeseburger from his vehicle \u201cto the victim and stated he would do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The deputy noted in the document while no signs of drug use or mental health issues were observed, there was an indication of alcohol influence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Cotto was charged with simple battery and booked into the Pinellas County Jail where he was released on his own recognizance, jail records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LARGO, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; A St. Petersburg man is being charged with battery with a cheeseburger, Pinellas County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[692,5689,5686,5687,5688,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-5152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-arrest","tag-atlantis","tag-battery","tag-cheesburger","tag-cotto","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152","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=5152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}