{"id":248002,"date":"2026-07-20T22:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248002\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T22:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T22:03:32","slug":"former-pittsburgh-steelers-running-back-leveon-bell-arrested-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248002\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le\u2019Veon Bell arrested in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le\u2019Veon Bell was arrested Sunday in Canton, Ohio according to a report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/2026\/07\/20\/former-steelers-rb-leveon-bell-jailed-in-stark-county\/90979634007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the Canton Repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bell was arrested for unpaid child support.<\/p>\n<p>The case originated in Michigan, where the child lives, his attorney, Thomas Shaffer of Pennsylvania, told FOX 8 News.<\/p>\n<p>Shaffer told FOX 8 News the 34-year-old owes more than $50,000 in child support, which he is now struggling to pay since leaving the NFL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn January Le\u2019Veon cashed in part of his NFL pension and paid $50,000 in child support as a good faith effort,\u201d Shaffer said. \u201cUnfortunately, every month, there is accruals of substantial amount of money that takes it above the threshold, which then puts it in a criminal court where they issue a bench warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bell played eight seasons in the NFL after being a second-round pick in the 2013 NFL Draft by the Steelers. He spent the first five seasons of his career with the Steelers before skipping the 2018 season because of a contract dispute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Le\u2019Veon Bell was arrested Sunday in Canton, Ohio according to a report from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-248002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248002","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=248002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}