{"id":302566,"date":"2026-10-08T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302566\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T20:20:09","slug":"pittsburgh-restaurant-owner-richard-deshantz-accused-of-violent-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302566\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh restaurant owner Richard DeShantz accused of violent attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791490809_330_4a0a8774-983a-4c94-a3b0-d2630c50cec6_1653489233.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Raquel Ciampi\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A 55-year-old Pittsburgh restaurant owner was arrested in the city\u2019s Allentown neighborhood after being accused of assaulting a woman early Saturday morning.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">A criminal complaint states Richard DeShantz punched the woman while she was driving, slammed her head against the steering wheel, and choked her.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">DeShantz owns the Richard DeShantz Restaurant Group, which operates popular establishments such as Meat and Potatoes and Butcher and the Rye.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">A protection from abuse order was later filed against him.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Attempts to contact the Richard DeShantz Restaurant Group for comment have been unsuccessful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A 55-year-old Pittsburgh restaurant owner was arrested in the city\u2019s Allentown neighborhood after being accused of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[124419,119,76484,1646,11228,23878,124415,37926,4323,8467,23229,124416,73,75,74,124420,85461,13560,124417,124418,53098,38159,91515,24927,102451,90567,2184,10254],"class_list":["post-302566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-abuse-order","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-neighborhood","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-butcher","tag-butcher-and-the-rye","tag-choking","tag-comment","tag-criminal-complaint","tag-meat","tag-meat-and-potatoes","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-popular-establishment","tag-potatoes","tag-protection","tag-protection-from-abuse-order","tag-restaurant-owner","tag-richard-deshantz","tag-richard-deshantz-restaurant-group","tag-rye","tag-saturday-morning","tag-steering-wheel","tag-violent-attack","tag-woman","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302566","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=302566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}