{"id":299284,"date":"2024-04-11T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T01:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/?p=299284"},"modified":"2024-04-11T23:38:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:38:53","slug":"merrifield-man-found-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/merrifield-man-found-guilty-of-1st-degree-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Merrifield Man Found Guilty of 1st-Degree Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fluid-width-video-wrapper aligncenter\" style=\"width:100%px;\"><div class=\"fluid-width-video-content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2s5EEZAPEo?wmode=transparent&color=white&rel=0&showinfo=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"56.2\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_297011\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-297011\" class=\"wp-image-297011\" src=\"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Michael-Laflex-CG.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Laflex Cg\" width=\"300\" height=\"365\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-297011\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael LaFlex (Credit: Crow Wing County Jail)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Crow Wing County jury has found a Merrifield man guilty of premeditated first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>46-year-old Michael LaFlex had pleaded innocent on the charge in connection with the October 2022 death of 23-year-old Bryce Brogle, his daughter&#8217;s boyfriend. LaFlex testified during the trial in his own defense.<\/p>\n<p>The jury returned its verdict yesterday afternoon and convicted LaFlex of shooting Brogle in the back of the head from a distance and then burying his body in a grave that he had dug in Crow Wing County.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing for LaFlex is slated for June 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Crow Wing County jury has found a Merrifield man guilty of premeditated first-degree murder. 46-year-old Michael LaFlex had pleaded innocent on the charge in connection with the October 2022&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":297013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Merrifield Man Found Guilty of 1st-Degree Murder","_seopress_titles_desc":"%%post_excerpt%%","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12366,1,6449],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299284"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299290,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299284\/revisions\/299290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lptv.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}