{"id":170874,"date":"2026-04-20T15:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170874\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:11:11","slug":"two-charged-after-reading-v-cardiff-city-disturbance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170874\/","title":{"rendered":"Two charged after Reading v Cardiff City disturbance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two men were arrested and charged with offences after a major police operation for Cardiff City&#8217;s visit to Reading on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thames Valley Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c8ej8z9l2p9o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used Section 35 dispersal orders<\/a>, drones and police dogs for the League One fixture, which saw the Bluebirds <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/c62lg2rpzjrt\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">promoted back to the Championship after their 3-1 win<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gareth Whitehouse, 41, of Cardiff, was arrested on suspicion of being threatening or abusive in a way which is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress and charged on Sunday. Lewis Campbell-Williams, 20, of Headcorn, Kent, was also charged on Sunday with possession of a bladed article and theft from a shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Both were bailed to appear at Reading Magistrates&#8217; Court on 3 June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were arrested and charged with offences after a major police operation for Cardiff City&#8217;s visit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-170874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170874","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=170874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}