{"id":547784,"date":"2026-03-27T04:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547784\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T04:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T04:41:07","slug":"rasheed-walker-says-gun-charges-will-be-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/547784\/","title":{"rendered":"Rasheed Walker says gun charges will be dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Panthers left tackle Rasheed Walker was arrested at LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 23 after telling an airline employee he had a firearm and ammunition in his baggage. He was charged with two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon and criminal possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, via David Newton of ESPN, said Thursday that the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/48314566\/panthers-rasheed-walker-says-gun-charge-dismissed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">charges will be dismissed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During his introductory news conference on Thursday, Walker referred all other questions to his attorney, <\/p>\n<p>The gun was licensed in Wisconsin, and Walker\u2019s attorney, Arthur Aidala, told the New York Post in January that Walker was unaware he couldn\u2019t travel with a licensed firearm in a locked box.<\/p>\n<p>Walker, who started 48 games in four seasons with the Packers, signed a one-year deal worth up to $10 million with the Panthers in free agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Panthers left tackle Rasheed Walker was arrested at LaGuardia Airport on Jan. 23 after telling an airline&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-547784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547784","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=547784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}