{"id":341631,"date":"2025-12-10T19:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341631\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:52:11","slug":"former-mlb-player-avoids-10-year-sentence-after-completing-substance-abuse-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/341631\/","title":{"rendered":"Former MLB player avoids 10-year sentence after completing substance abuse program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Missouri Department of Corrections announced that a former Major League Baseball player completed a substance abuse treatment program and would be released from prison on probation.<\/p>\n<p>On August 25, Boone County Judge Brouck Jacobs <a href=\"https:\/\/krcgtv.com\/news\/local\/former-mlb-player-found-guilty-of-domestic-assault-kidnapping-in-boone-county-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sentenced Blake Tekotte<\/a> to 120 days of substance abuse treatment for assault and kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>If he had not completed the program, he would have served a ten-year sentence.<\/p>\n<p>When Tekotte is released from prison, he will be on probation for five years.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/krcgtv.com\/news\/local\/former-mlb-player-found-guilty-of-domestic-assault-kidnapping-in-boone-county-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 2025<\/a>, a Boone County jury found Tekotte guilty of Second Degree Domestic Assault and Second Degree Kidnapping.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from an incident on November 17, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A woman said Tekotte hit and strangled her and hid her phone and purse, before she was<\/p>\n<p>able to escape and get to safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Missouri Department of Corrections announced that a former Major League Baseball player completed a substance abuse treatment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-341631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-mlb","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}