Police in central Florida are searching for Amare Stoudemire's older brother, Hazell Jr., in connection with a sexual assault, according to weekend media reports in the area.
Hazell Jr., 31 and a registered sexual offender, is being sought by Haines City, Fla., police for charges of sexual battery, kidnapping, aggravated assault and assault, according to The Ledger, a newspaper in Polk County, where Amare grew up.
The case involves a woman who was sexually battered in her home, kidnapped and then assaulted again in the assailant's home, according to the Tampa Tribune.
Stoudemire's younger half-brother, Marwan, was one of five men last year in connection with a Scottsdale robbery attempt that ended with the fatal shooting of a suspected drug dealer.
Just sad for amare that he has these family issues going on around him.
Tupac wrote a poem called "the rose that grew from the concrete" and it certainly is looking like amare embodies that. For a guy who has so much turmoil going on around him, he does such an amazing job of being focussed, ready and unaffected on the court by these obviously stressful things
something that to me at least, makes amare even more admirable
