{"id":7923,"date":"2013-11-13T19:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-former-bears-wr-hurd-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2013-11-13T19:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T19:47:00","slug":"report-former-bears-wr-hurd-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/report-former-bears-wr-hurd-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Former Bears WR Hurd sentenced to 15 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; A federal judge reportedly sentenced former Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd to 15 years in prison on a drug- trafficking conviction.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Chicago Tribune, the 28-year-old Hurd pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to possess and distribute marijuana and cocaine. Hurd had been held in prison since then after a judge revoked his bond more than a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Hurd was originally arrested in December 2011 after purchasing a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover officer, and had told the officer that he wanted up to 10 kilograms and a half ton of marijuana per week for distribution in the Chicago area.<\/p>\n<p>Hurd, who spent the first five years of his career with the Dallas Cowboys before joining the Bears as a free agent in 2011, faced a minimum of 10 years in prison under federal law with a possible maximum life sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Forest, IL (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; A federal judge reportedly sentenced former Chicago Bears wide receiver Sam Hurd to 15 years in prison on a drug- trafficking conviction. According to the Chicago Tribune, the 28-year-old Hurd pleaded guilty in April to conspiring to possess and distribute marijuana and cocaine. Hurd had been held in prison since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[157,30,156],"class_list":["post-7923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-bears","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-bears"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}