{"id":335554,"date":"2026-06-14T02:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335554\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T02:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:12:14","slug":"james-harden-charged-with-unlawful-carrying-of-a-weapon-in-houston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/335554\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon in Houston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Houston <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/article\/james-harden-unpaid-rent-lawsuit-houston-22183463.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Rockets star James Harden<\/a> was arrested in Houston early Saturday morning and charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon, according to Harris County court records.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents show Harden, 36, was arrested by the Houston Police Department at approximately 3:41 a.m. on Saturday. He was charged with misdemeanor unlawful carrying of a weapon and later released on bond.<\/p>\n<p>According to charging documents filed in Harris County, prosecutors allege Harden &#8220;unlawfully, intentionally and knowingly&#8221; carried a handgun in a vehicle he owned while the firearm was in plain view and not carried in a holster.<\/p>\n<p>The court filing does not provide additional details about the circumstances surrounding the arrest. Court records indicate Harden is scheduled to appear before Harris County Criminal Court at Law No. 1 on June 22.<\/p>\n<p>Harden previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/rockets\/article\/james-harden-houston-rockets-17632310.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">played nine seasons for the Rockets<\/a> and won the NBA&#8217;s Most Valuable Player award in 2018. Since uncermoniously leaving Houston in 2021, Harden has played for the Nets, Sixers, Clippers before being traded to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/rockets\/article\/james-harden-rockets-regret-18696967.phphttps:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/rockets\/article\/james-harden-rockets-regret-18696967.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>. The star continues to have strong ties to Houston, even though his former restaurant, Thirteen, was closed in recent months for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/sports\/article\/james-harden-unpaid-rent-lawsuit-houston-22183463.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">unpaid rent<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Houston Rockets star James Harden was arrested in Houston early Saturday morning and charged with unlawful carrying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1836,87171,16469,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-335554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronnews","tag-chronrockets","tag-chronsports","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}