{"id":448375,"date":"2016-02-05T12:39:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=448375"},"modified":"2016-02-06T04:36:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T10:36:57","slug":"johnny-manziels-ex-girlfriend-told-police-he-struck-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=448375","title":{"rendered":"Manziel&#8217;s Agent Drops Quarterback after Police Inquiries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/JohnnyManziel4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-448376\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/02\/JohnnyManziel4-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"JohnnyManziel4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-448376\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nCLEVELAND (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Johnny Manziel&#8217;s agent has dropped the quarterback and Tyler native following two police investigations in Texas last weekend.   Erik Burkhardt released a statement to media outlets Friday saying &#8220;with deep regret&#8221; he has ended the business relationship. Manziel will be released by the Cleveland Browns next month.    Burkhardt says he will remain supportive of the 23-year-old player. The agent adds that he and Manziel&#8217;s family have gone to great lengths to outline steps to help him.<!--more-->    <\/p>\n<p>Manziel was under police investigation for allegedly hitting ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley. She told police the Heisman Trophy winner struck her &#8220;several times&#8221; at a Dallas hotel and later when they drove back to her apartment in Fort Worth. The police departments in both cities said Thursday their investigations are closed.    Burkhardt isn&#8217;t the first to end business ties with Manziel. Cavaliers star LeBron James&#8217; marketing agency ended its association with him last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP\/Staff) &#8211; Johnny Manziel&#8217;s agent has dropped the quarterback and Tyler native following two police investigations in Texas last weekend. Erik Burkhardt released a statement to media outlets Friday saying &#8220;with deep regret&#8221; he has ended the business relationship. Manziel will be released by the Cleveland Browns next month. Burkhardt says he will remain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=448375\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manziel&#8217;s Agent Drops Quarterback after Police Inquiries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":448376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-448375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 00:25:45","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448626,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448375\/revisions\/448626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/448376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=448375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=448375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}