{"id":45046,"date":"2025-07-20T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45046"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:07:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T05:07:49","slug":"pat-tillmans-brother-arrested-for-driving-into-california-post-office-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45046","title":{"rendered":"Pat Tillman\u2019s brother arrested for driving into California post office \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Late NFL star\u2019s brother, Richard Tillman, taken into custody as suspect after crash causes building to go up in flames<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Police are investigating a car that crashed into a post office in San Jose,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california\">California<\/a>, early on Sunday, causing the building to go up in flames, authorities said. Police reportedly took a Richard Tillman \u2013 brother of NFL star turned army enlistee Pat Tillman \u2013 into custody as a suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The crash happened shortly before 3am at the office located in a strip mall south of downtown, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/san-jose\">San Jose<\/a>&nbsp;police department. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">About 50 firefighters took about an hour and a half to knock down the flames. Photos&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DMVEAnuRTUm\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\">posted online<\/a>&nbsp;by the fire department showed a charred car inside the heavily damaged building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">According to NBC Bay Area, the suspect told officers on the scene he is Pat Tillman\u2019s brother. Pat Tillman, a San Jose native, was a safety for the Arizona Cardinals football team who walked away from a multimillion dollar contract to serve in Iraq after the September 11 attacks. He became an even greater hero in death when he was killed in Afghanistan two years later \u2013 until it came out that the Pentagon had lied to cover up that his death was from friendly fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The Santa Clara county sheriff office\u2019s inmate locator showed a Richard Tillman was booked on Sunday and is being held without bail. There is no information so far what charges Richard Tillman was booked on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">An email was sent to the US Postal Inspection Service seeking additional details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Nearly 2 million people live in the metropolitan area of San Jose, about 50 miles (80km) south of downtown San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jul\/20\/pat-tillman-brother-arrest-san-jose-post-office\">theguardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late NFL star\u2019s brother, Richard Tillman, taken into custody as suspect after crash causes building to go up in flames Police are investigating a car that crashed into a post office in San Jose,&nbsp;California, early on Sunday, causing the building to go up in flames, authorities said. Police reportedly took a Richard Tillman \u2013 brother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2411,34030,6598,34031],"class_list":["post-45046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-arrested","tag-california-post-office","tag-driving","tag-pat-tillman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45048,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45046\/revisions\/45048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}