{"id":470861,"date":"2026-02-15T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:38:07","slug":"former-ufc-star-cain-velasquez-released-from-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/470861\/","title":{"rendered":"Former UFC star Cain Velasquez released from prison"},"content":{"rendered":"

(CNN, KYMA) – Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been released from prison Sunday.<\/p>\n

He was granted parole and walked free after serving nearly 11 months at a state prison in Soledad, California.<\/p>\n

Last year, a judge sentenced<\/a> Velasquez, a Yuma native, to five years in prison with about 3.5 years served. He pleaded no contest<\/a> to a number of charges, including attempted murder.<\/p>\n

Velasquez<\/a> was initially arrested<\/a> in February 2022 after he chased a car and fired shots at the driver in San Jose.<\/p>\n

Investigators say Velasquez<\/a> targeted the driver, who was accused of molesting Velasquez’ young son at a daycare. That driver is facing criminal charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meantime, the conditions of Velasquez<\/a>‘s parole are not clear. He has apologized for his actions, and says he means no harm to anyone, including the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN, KYMA) – Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has been released from prison Sunday. He was granted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-470861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470861","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=470861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}