{"id":206302,"date":"2026-05-30T14:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206302\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:14:09","slug":"professional-basketball-player-from-pittsburgh-arrested-for-owing-more-than-100k-in-child-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206302\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional basketball player from Pittsburgh arrested for owing more than $100K in child support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A former standout high school basketball player in Pittsburgh and current professional athlete was arrested for owing over $100,000 in child support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Allegheny County Sheriff\u2019s Office announced the arrest of DeAndre Kane, 36, on Saturday. Law enforcement officials say Kane, who led Schenley High School to a City League basketball championship in 2008, has been a fugitive since 2023, when he failed to appear in Family Court for a hearing concerning missed child support payments. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Since 2014, Kane has been playing basketball for various professional teams overseas. This week, sheriff\u2019s office detectives and other law enforcement agencies learned Kane would be returning to Pittsburgh from Iceland on Friday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">When Kane disembarked his flight on Friday at the Pittsburgh International Airport, the Allegheny County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Allegheny County Police Department took him into custody. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Kane was taken to the Allegheny Jail to await a hearing in Family Court. <\/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 former standout high school basketball player in Pittsburgh and current professional athlete was arrested for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1646,90715,69342,90710,90717,90719,90718,90720,90721,90716,90711,73,75,6846,90712,74,90713,90714],"class_list":["post-206302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-arrest","tag-basketball-start","tag-child-support","tag-deandre-kane","tag-deandre-kane-arrest","tag-deandre-kane-basketball","tag-deandre-kane-fugitive","tag-deandre-kane-high-school","tag-deandre-kane-team","tag-high-school-basketball-start","tag-iceland-flight-arrest","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport","tag-pittsburgh-international-airport-arrest","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-professional-basketball-player-arrest","tag-schenley-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206302","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=206302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}