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Aikens was arrested, charged and sentenced with teammates Willie Wilson and Jerry Martin. They were the first active MLB players ever to be sentenced for drug violations. [171] Retired United States December 13, 1994 (sentencing) Drug possession with intent to distribute, gun possession, attempted bribery 20 years, 8 months imprisonment [172]
According to a database compiled by USA Today in 2014, 85 of the 713 arrests of NFL players since 2000 were due to domestic violence. [63] On September 8, 2014, TMZ Sports released a video of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his fiancée and dragging her unconscious body out of an elevator led to a two-game suspension. [64]
Most NFL suspensions have been for players, but several coaches, owners, general managers, and game officials have also been suspended. In 1997, in the wake of the O. J. Simpson murder trial , the league under Commissioner Paul Tagliabue adopted a Violent Crime Policy which gave the league broad powers to fine and suspend players for violent ...
The Denver Broncos have had 19 players arrested in the last seven seasons, the most in the NFL, according to data collected by USA Today. There have been 321 arrests of NFL players since 2010 Skip ...
Check out which NFL players have been fined the most since such data started being collected — 2002. ... 2004 after being charged with conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute at ...
During his time in the NFL, Quinn was selected 14th overall by the Rams in the first round of the 2011 NFL Draft and played for five different franchises in the league — most recently, the ...
One of the NFL's biggest problems off the field is domestic violence, according to Jon Shuppe from NBC News, over the last 14 years there have been 87 arrests involving 80 football players. [2] A survey of 252 nationally-reported criminal cases in one year that involved athletes found that about 14% (49) of the athletes involved were ...
Ray Rice may never again play for an NFL team, but he isn't the only public figure to be accused of domestic abuse. In fact, there are many other players who have received widespread attention for ...