Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:23 pm
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Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:37 pm
I'm not sure why he had it, I mean he knows Shaq plays for CLE.
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:37 pm
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:40 pm
Fine and maybe a one game suspension, at worse. That is, unless DCPD decides to get involved then there might be more trouble ahead.
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:34 pm
Let's see. What other kinds of distractions can we come up with?
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:45 pm
keynote wrote:Let's see. What other kinds of distractions can we come up with?
Perhaps he was holding the gun for Delonte West?
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 11:47 pm
It looks like much ado about nothing:
The biggest concern is that the league doesn't permit players to have firearms on league property. I don't know if Arenas will get suspended for that, or if he'll get a pass because he was the one who brought the guns to security attention in the first place.
Mike Jones wrote:I was able to get a hold of Gil by phone, and this is what he had to say: "It happened like December 10th. Right after my daughter was born. I decided I didn't want the guns in my house and around the kids anymore, so i took them to my lock box at Verizon Center. Then like a week later, I turned them over to team security and told them to hand them over to the police, because I don't want them anymore. I wouldn't have brought them to D.C. had I known the rules. After my daughter was born, I was just like, I don't need these anymore.”
The biggest concern is that the league doesn't permit players to have firearms on league property. I don't know if Arenas will get suspended for that, or if he'll get a pass because he was the one who brought the guns to security attention in the first place.
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 1:12 am
Total non-story on a slow news day.
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:01 am
wow wt blew this one way out of proportion
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:11 am
*Yawn*
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Fri Dec 25, 2009 4:59 am
I guess when he found out the kid was his he didnt need those guns anymore.....lol 
Shaq=Incognito......
Shaq=Incognito......
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 2:04 am
Hmmm.
This maybe somewhat similar to what happened to Sebastian Telfare, who got caught not once, but twice with a gun. The first time was actually on the team plane (!), hidden in a pillow. He later claimed his girl-friend put it there and he forgot?? The 2nd time I believe he was caught with one in a car in NY, which is a big no no.
Regardless, I don't believe he got anything worse than a minor suspension for the 1st offense; but the 2nd once got him traded away from Boston I believe.
This maybe somewhat similar to what happened to Sebastian Telfare, who got caught not once, but twice with a gun. The first time was actually on the team plane (!), hidden in a pillow. He later claimed his girl-friend put it there and he forgot?? The 2nd time I believe he was caught with one in a car in NY, which is a big no no.
Regardless, I don't believe he got anything worse than a minor suspension for the 1st offense; but the 2nd once got him traded away from Boston I believe.
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Sat Dec 26, 2009 4:59 am
At least he didn't pull a Plaxico and shoot himself in the foot.
Hopefully this is a non-issue, but it does seem like the DC gun laws could be the wild-card.
Hopefully this is a non-issue, but it does seem like the DC gun laws could be the wild-card.
Re: Arenas being investigated for gun possession
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 11:38 am