{"id":50162,"date":"2022-06-14T12:55:06","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/charlotte-hornets-center-faces-felony-drug-charges\/"},"modified":"2022-06-14T12:55:06","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T12:55:06","slug":"charlotte-hornets-center-faces-felony-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/charlotte-hornets-center-faces-felony-drug-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlotte Hornets center faces felony drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Montrezl Harrell returns to Louisville\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Former Louisville forward Montrezl Harrell has been charged with trafficking less than five pounds of marijuana on the morning of May 12, according to court records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">According to the report, at 9:58 am, Harrell, now with the Charlotte Hornets, was stopped in Richmond, Kentucky, when the car he was in &#8211; a 2020 Honda Pilot \u2014was following the car in front of him too closely.  The responding officer said a marijuana odor exuded from Harrell, who was a passenger in the car and claimed he had rented it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Reunited:<\/strong>Montrezl Harrell traded to Charlotte, set to join former Louisville teammate Terry Rozier<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Harrell admitted to being in possession of marijuana and pulled &#8220;a small amount&#8221; from his sweatpants, according to the police report.  A search of the vehicle resulted in the discovery of a backpack that contained three pounds of vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana, the report said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Harrell&#8217;s arraignment was originally scheduled for Monday but has been moved to 9:30 am July 13. The trafficking charge is his first offense and a class D felony, which comes with 1-5 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In his eighth NBA season, Harrell averaged 11.4 points and 4.9 rebounds with the Hornets after being traded from the Washington Wizards in February.  The Hornets went 43-39 last season and fell to the Atlanta Hawks 132-103 in the play-in game, missing the playoffs.<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During his career at Louisville, the North Carolina native averaged 11.6 points, 6.9 rebounds and 1.1 blocks while helping the squad win a national championship as a freshman in 2013. The title was later vacated due to NCAA violations.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_fo__bet-best gnt_em__lp\" aria-label=\"Scores and odds from Tipico\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-type=\"comment\"><!--@pre<iframe class=gnt_em_fo_if src=\"\/tangfrag\/sports\/gaming\/bet-best?prm-embedded&prm-teamid=122&prm-gnteamid=664421&prm-league=NBA#fhp-assetid=7618514001\" loading=lazy sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" title=\"Scores and odds from Tipico\"><\/iframe>--><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Louisville forward Montrezl Harrell has been charged with trafficking less than five pounds of marijuana on the morning of May 12, according to court records. According to the report, at 9:58 am, Harrell, now with the Charlotte Hornets, was stopped in Richmond, Kentucky, when the car he was in &#8211; a 2020 Honda Pilot &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/charlotte-hornets-center-faces-felony-drug-charges\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charlotte Hornets center faces felony drug charges<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/06\/14\/USAT\/74f6d608-50d8-4338-990e-6efb6da10cdd-_montrezl-harrell.jpg?width=660&height=441&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}