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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]
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 ...
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]
Aaron Josef Hernandez [a] (November 6, 1989 – April 19, 2017) was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played three seasons with the New England Patriots until his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
His trial for the double murder of Abreu and Furtado did not begin until March 2017. However, on April 14, 2017, he was acquitted of the double homicide charges.
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 ...
Police in Louisiana arrested a former NFL player in connection to the shooting of an NFL hopeful late Friday. The Times-Picayune reported that police charged 36-year-old Brandon Winey with ...
At Cordova High, Rozier was an athletic wunderkind: the teen played American football as a defensive end and was "all-league, all-conference, all-Northern California." The high-schooler could also high jump six feet seven inches (2.01 m), vertical jump ten feet (3.0 m), sprint the 40-yard dash in 4.7 seconds, and bench press 375 pounds (170 kg).