{"id":18840,"date":"2026-06-06T07:26:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18840"},"modified":"2026-06-06T07:26:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T07:26:22","slug":"comedian-arrested-for-alleged-drug-possession-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18840","title":{"rendered":"Comedian arrested for alleged drug possession during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comedian Paul Rodriguez, 70, was arrested during a traffic stop in Burbank after police allegedly discovered narcotics in a vehicle he was riding in. Rodriguez denied the drugs were his, claiming they belonged to the driver and alleging he was treated unfairly during the stop.<br \/>\nHe was cited and released on a misdemeanor drug possession charge, with the case under review. The arrest comes after a challenging period for the longtime comedian, who underwent quadruple bypass surgery in 2021 and recently lost a close friend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Comedian Paul Rodriguez, 70, was arrested during a traffic stop in Burbank after police allegedly discovered narcotics in a vehicle he was riding in. Rodriguez <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=18840\" title=\"Comedian arrested for alleged drug possession during traffic stop\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18842,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18840\/revisions\/18842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}