{"id":598453,"date":"2023-01-17T07:23:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/17\/ex-nfl-player-charged-with-kidnapping-in-mississippi\/"},"modified":"2023-01-17T07:23:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T13:23:33","slug":"ex-nfl-player-charged-with-kidnapping-in-mississippi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/17\/ex-nfl-player-charged-with-kidnapping-in-mississippi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-NFL player charged with kidnapping in Mississippi"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jerrell Powe and accomplice Gavin Bates, were arrested Thursday after a man told police he was allegedly kidnapped and forced to withdraw money at a bank, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n

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Jerrell Powe of the Kansas City Chiefs during a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers on Aug. 30, 2012, in Green Bay, Wis.<\/span>Jonathan Daniel \/ Getty Images file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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A former NFL player has been arrested and charged with kidnapping in Mississippi, police said. <\/p>\n

Jerrell Powe, 35, who played football for Ole Miss in college and played several seasons in the NFL, was booked into the Madison County Detention Center on a kidnapping charge Thursday at 7:30 p.m., booking records show<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ridgeland police officers found Powe, and accomplice Gavin Bates, 35, at a Chase Bank on Highland Colony Parkway Thursday, police chief Brian Myers told NBC affiliate WLBT of Jackson<\/a>.\u00a0Ridgeland is about 10 miles northeast of Jackson.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police said a victim contacted police and told officers he was kidnapped \u201cagainst his will\u201d and was \u201cforced to withdraw money\u201d at the bank, Myers said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victim is safe, the police chief said, and the matter is under investigation, the station reported.<\/p>\n

Powe and Bates were both subsequently detained on a kidnapping charge. Bates was additionally hit with a controlled substance violation charge. <\/p>\n

Both are being held without bond pending a hearing Tuesday, according to The Associated Press<\/a>.\u00a0It’s not immediately clear if the pair have retained lawyers.<\/p>\n

The athlete played for Ole Miss starting in 2008. He was drafted by Kansas City Chiefs as the sixth-round pick in the 2011 NFL Draft. He went on to play for the Houston Texas and signed with the Washington Redskins<\/a>, now renamed the Washington Commanders, in 2015 but was later released<\/a> a year later.<\/p>\n

He announced his retirement<\/a> from football in 2017. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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<\/span>Marlene Lenthang<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Marlene Lenthang is a breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jerrell Powe and accomplice Gavin Bates, were arrested Thursday after a man told police he was allegedly kidnapped and forced to withdraw money at a bank, police said. Jerrell Powe of the Kansas City Chiefs during a preseason game against the Green Bay Packers on Aug. 30, 2012, in Green Bay, Wis.Jonathan Daniel \/ Getty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":598454,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31795,534,22525],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-598453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ex-nfl","category-financial","category-player"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}