{"id":14879,"date":"2019-03-08T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T02:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=14879"},"modified":"2019-03-09T09:00:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T15:00:26","slug":"pitching-mound-to-prison-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/pitching-mound-to-prison-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitching Mound To Prison Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Loaiza__asg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10187\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Loaiza__asg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Loaiza__asg.jpg 282w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Loaiza__asg-205x300.jpg 205w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a>Former White Sox pitcher Esteban Loaiza was\u00a0sentenced to 36 months in prison earlier today after pleading guilty to felony cocaine possession with intent to distribute.\u00a0 Loaiza, who was facing a potential life sentence,\u00a0was arrested last year after he was caught trying to move more than $500,000 in cocaine from a house located near a school.\u00a0 He\u00a0was initially stopped by police during a routine stop for a minor traffic violation, but a search of the car\u00a0led to the discovery\u00a0of a &#8220;sophisticated aftermarket compartment used to conceal contraband.&#8221;\u00a0 A subsequent search of a home he had been renting, mere &#8220;steps away from an area preschool&#8221;, found roughly 20 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $500,000.\u00a0 Following his release from prison, he will be deported to his native Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Loaiza, the second winningest pitcher from Mexico, had two stints with the White Sox.\u00a0 He scored All Star nods in both 2003 and 2004 and finished his career with the team in a brief stint in 2008.\u00a0 He earned over $40 million during his career, making the need to participate in this type of scheme baffling.\u00a0 He made an unannounced appearance at Sox Fest just prior to his arrest last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former White Sox pitcher Esteban Loaiza was\u00a0sentenced to 36 months in prison earlier today after pleading guilty to felony cocaine possession with intent to distribute.\u00a0 Loaiza, who was facing a potential life sentence,\u00a0was arrested last year after he was caught trying to move more than $500,000 in cocaine from a house located near a school.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[2474,8374,49],"class_list":["post-14879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-esteban-loaiza","tag-sox-fest","tag-white-sox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14879"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14884,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14879\/revisions\/14884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}