{"id":125699,"date":"2026-02-28T03:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125699\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T03:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:03:07","slug":"pittsburgh-medic-facing-criminal-charges-in-ohio-on-leave-accused-of-giving-teenage-son-steroids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/125699\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh medic facing criminal charges in Ohio on leave; accused of giving teenage son steroids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh medic accused of injecting his teenage son with steroids is now facing criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Endangering children charges were filed against Michael Bess out of Columbiana County, Ohio, on Friday, sources tell 11 Investigates. That is the county where his son lives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/11-investigates-exclusive-pittsburgh-paramedic-accused-giving-teenage-son-steroids\/MHYXWTLWZ5E73MJTEJ5QVJYASI\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/11-investigates-exclusive-pittsburgh-paramedic-accused-giving-teenage-son-steroids\/MHYXWTLWZ5E73MJTEJ5QVJYASI\/\">His teenage son told 11 Investigates last year<\/a> that Bess would inject him with anabolic steroids following a shoulder injury. That boy is also a pediatric cancer survivor who was placed on medical suspension.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">11 Investigates was told the Columbiana County Sheriff\u2019s Department is investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh medic accused of injecting his teenage son with steroids is now facing criminal charges.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[58824,31,22396,73,58821,75,58823,58819,58820,58818,74,58822],"class_list":["post-125699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-columbiana-county","tag-crime","tag-medics","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-crime","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-medic-accused-of-giving-son-steroids","tag-pittsburgh-medic-charged","tag-pittsburgh-medic-crime","tag-pittsburgh-medics","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-steroids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}