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Status with team when arrested Crime Term Notes Kevin Allen: Free agent Sexual assault: 15 years [1] Released after 33 months. Will Allen: Retired Wire fraud and money laundering: 6 years in prison, 3 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution of $16.8 million (along with co-defendant) [2] Richard Alston: Retired Conspiracy to ...
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 ...
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]
By scoring a touchdown in 2012’s Super Bowl XLVI, New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez achieved a childhood dream. One year later, he was arrested for murder.What followed was one of ...
The NFL has alerted team security directors and the players union about criminals targeting professional athletes' homes, according to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero.. The memo sent to all 32 teams ...
Despite a 9–5 record and divisional title, several scandals emerged between players, coaches, owner Art Rooney, and even members of opposing teams. This included numerous players being arrested for alleged cocaine possession, contract holdouts, and lawsuits, in addition to regressed play from the team's vaunted defense that led to a first ...
The memo that went out to NFL teams and the players union warned that homes of professional athletes have become "increasingly targeted for burglaries by organized and skilled groups," according ...
In March 2011, Smith and two others were charged with the 2008 murder of Maurilio Ponce, who was beaten and shot in October 2008 in Lancaster, California, with his body being dumped "near the Antelope Valley poppy fields some 11 miles away." [4] Prosecutors said that the murder of Ponce, a mechanic, occurred after "a business deal gone wrong." [5]