» RON ARTEST CHARGED IN DOMESTIC DISPUTE, COULD FACE UP TO 4 YEARS IN PRISON
Probably best remembered for his involvement in the infamous 2004 Indiana Pacers brawl with Detroit Pistons fans, Ron Artest, who now plays for the Sacramento Kings, faces four misdemeanor charges as a result of a dispute with his wife. Here’s what went down:
Placer County Deputy District Attorney Dan Quick said Artest will be arraigned Thursday on charges of battery and corporal injury to a spouse, false imprisonment and dissuading a witness from reporting a crime. Each carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison.
Artest was arrested March 5 at his estate in Loomis, 25 miles northeast of Sacramento, and was released from custody after posting a $50,000 bond.
A Placer County sheriff’s report said Artest grabbed a woman and pushed her down, then slapped her face during an argument. The report, which did not identify the victim because it was a domestic violence incident, said Artest took a phone from the woman the first time she tried to call 911
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Seems like this guy just can’t stay out of trouble. It was just in February that animal control officers seized his Great Dane because it wasn’t being fed and now the dog is in the custody of one of Ron’s lawyers. What’s really up with this dude?
2 responses so far ↓
1 Evorgleb // Mar 22, 2007 at 10:55 am
I don’t understand Ron or a lot of these other athletes for that matter. We’ve been talking about Ron over at Highbrid Nation and most of the readers there tend to agree that these guys are blessed with so much yet are more than willing to throw it away being stupid.
2 Candyce // Mar 22, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I wonder what really happened… I got messed up views on domestric abuse so I won’t really voice my opinion. All charges except the domestic abuse charge will probably be dropped [domestic abuse too if his don’t go through with it, which they almost never do], he plead guilty to that and maybe get probabtion. At least if he was a regular Joe they would.
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