{"id":277861,"date":"2015-05-29T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/teen-eats-screws-and-needles-in-his-prison-cell-racking-up-1million-in-medical-bills\/"},"modified":"2015-05-29T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T12:02:00","slug":"teen-eats-screws-and-needles-in-his-prison-cell-racking-up-1million-in-medical-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/05\/29\/teen-eats-screws-and-needles-in-his-prison-cell-racking-up-1million-in-medical-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Eats Screws And Needles In His Prison Cell Racking Up $1million In Medical Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationng.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/police_photo-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-294970\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/05\/9b7bpolice_photo-1-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"police_photo (1)\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A teenager in Illinois, who was arrested on charges of robbery, is eating metal and leather inside his prison cell, the defendant\u2019s lawyer told a court. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwideweirdnews.com\/2015\/05\/28-n36699.html\">Worldwideweirdnews<\/a> has more:<\/p>\n<p>So far, 17-year-old Lamont Cathey has cost the Cook County Jail, more than $1 million in medical expenses.\u00a0Cathey has been in jail for 16 months after he was arrested for a robbery committed at a pizza store. His bail was set at $5,000 but no one has paid it.<\/p>\n<p>A plea deal was in place, which called to put Cathey in a camp, but that did not materialize. Since then, he has been swallowing metal objects that have put him in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He ate screws, needles, a pin, leather strips and part of a medical device. Cathey has needed several operations to remove those things from his body.\u00a0His lawyer told the court that Cathey needs psychiatric treatment instead of being in jail.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A teenager in Illinois, who was arrested on charges of robbery, is eating metal and leather inside his prison cell, the defendant\u2019s lawyer told a court. Worldwideweirdnews has more: &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}