A sexual assault allegation involving Cody Latimer’s 4-year-old son sparked a heated argument over the weekend that left the Washington Redskins wide receiver facing multiple felony charges, his lawyer said during a Monday hearing.

Latimer, who was released on $25,000 bond, was charged with assault in the second degree, menacing and illegal discharge of a firearm in Colorado, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department. He also is facing misdemeanor charges of prohibited use of a weapon and reckless endangerment.

Roderick English, who told police he is Latimer’s best friend, held a poker game at his Colorado home Friday night, including the former Giants receiver and seven or eight others, ESPN reported.

Later in the night, Latimer and an unidentified card player became irate with one another, according to court documents. While the police report did not detail what was discussed, Latimer’s attorney, Harvey Steinberg, told the court during the virtual hearing that it concerned a person at the table allegedly sexually assaulting Latimer’s son.

Steinberg said the sexual assault allegations do not involve Latimer. Steinberg added that law enforcement contacted him to investigate the sexual assault allegation, in addition to the charges levied against the 27-year-old Latimer.

Latimer and the other individual had to be separated, said English, who then ordered everyone to leave his apartment.

It’s unclear whether the individual Latimer argued with was the same person who allegedly committed the sexual assault against Latimer’s son. It also is unknown when the alleged assault may have taken place.

Around 30 minutes after English ordered everyone to leave, an enraged Latimer returned to the apartment, English said, and blamed English for the poker-game episode. English said he and Latimer had been drinking the night of the incident.

English said Latimer then pulled out a handgun from his hoodie and waved it around, saying he was going to kill everybody, according to police records.

According to English, the situation de-escalated for a few moments before Latimer fired two shots near English, who then pinned Latimer against the wall. Latimer then hit English on the top of his head with the gun, and the fight eventually ended.

Police arrived around midnight, and English received medical attention for a contusion on the top of his head and a cut on his face.

Latimer spent the past two seasons with the Giants after beginning his career with Denver. He signed a one-year, $1.04 million contract ($137,500 guaranteed) with the Redskins this offseason.

Latimer’s case marks one of three ongoing criminal investigations involving NFL players. Also on Saturday, Buffalo Bills defensive end tackle Ed Oliver, 22, was arrested in Houston on charges of DWI and unlawful carrying of a weapon.

Last week, 22-year-old Giants cornerback DeAndre Baker was charged with four counts of armed robbery with a firearm and four counts of aggravated assault at a party in his home state of Florida. Seattle Seahawks cornerback Quintron Dunbar, 27, also faced multiple charges stemming from the same incident.

Latimer is scheduled to have his next court hearing July 24.

In late September, a Papillion resident posted a diamond ring for sale on an online site, Papillion Police Chief Deputy Chris Whitted said at the time.

In November 2016, according to court documents unsealed this week in New York, one of the nation’s top high school basketball players and his mother signed a series of forms so the player could accept an athletic scholarship from Kansas.

In the forms — similar to those signed by more than 460,000 athletes at NCAA schools each year — both the player and his mother asserted they had no knowledge of any violations of NCAA rules regarding amateurism. Over the years, the NCAA has interpreted amateurism rules to prohibit a long list of benefits for players and families, ranging from duffel bags full of cash and luxury cars to more modest perks, such as gas money and free meals.

When the player’s mom signed those forms, she was lying, according to federal prosecutors, who did not identify her or her son in court documents. Just days before, prosecutors allege, the mother had met with an Adidas consultant in a hotel in New York and accepted $30,000 cash — routed through one of Adidas’ grassroots teams — meant to ensure her son enrolled at Kansas, one of Adidas’ premier endorsed college programs, and if he made it to the NBA, signed an endorsement deal with the apparel company.

In college basketball circles, this allegation, contained in an indictment charging an Adidas executive with wire fraud for arranging the payment, was the latest sign that the ongoing Justice Department probe of the basketball black market is far from over.

To economists and lawyers familiar with both federal law enforcement and college sports, however, this week’s charges brought into sharper focus an aspect of the investigation that has puzzled them for months: The FBI and federal prosecutors in New York are trying to put people in prison for paying college athletes and their families.

“I still can’t figure out why the FBI is involved with this,” said Dan Rascher, a California economist who has consulted for college athletes on lawsuits challenging NCAA rules. “There’s literally no problem at all with people being paid for their skills to provide value to an educational institution. Except if the people we’re talking about are college athletes.”

[New indictment ties Kansas, N.C. State into FBI’s college basketball probe]

By making money from her son’s talent, and lying about it, prosecutors allege, the mother conspired with Adidas officials to defraud Kansas, which could have been exposed to fines and other sanctions if the NCAA learned of the payments. This theory of fraud, which casts schools as victims because players or their parents have secretly taken money, is rare but has been deployed at least twice before by federal prosecutors: in a 1980s case involving a sports agent with ties to the mafia, and a 2000s case involving a convicted cocaine dealer making it rich as an AAU coach.

Six months after the first arrests, however, the FBI and prosecutors in New York have yet to make public any allegations involving mob ties or drug dealers, or even tax evasion, which some legal experts expected would eventually emerge, offering justification for the public money spent.

A spokesman for prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, who are overseeing the investigation, declined to comment.

Colleges as victims?

In the scenario involving the Kansas recruit, according to prosecutors, the fraud occurred when the mother signed that form despite knowing she’d taken money for her son’s talents, in violation of NCAA rules. The mother, according to court documents, is an unindicted co-conspirator of the Adidas executive.

The victim of this fraud conspiracy, according to prosecutors? Kansas, a school with one of the wealthiest basketball programs in the country, whose coach makes $5 million annually to oversee an amateur basketball team that is regularly one of the star attractions in the Big 12 Conference, which has packaged basketball and football television rights to help generate $371 million in annual revenue, and in the NCAA tournament, which generates more than $850 million for the NCAA and member schools each year.

The mother was not charged with a crime but, according to experts familiar with federal investigations, likely will be threatened with the prospect of arrest by prosecutors, if she hasn’t already, as they seek her testimony against the Adidas officials.

[Instead of paying players to go to Miami and Louisville, he kept the money. The FBI let him go.]

The latest charges, which also involve a recruit whose father allegedly took $40,000 from Adidas to secure his son’s commitment to North Carolina State, rest entirely upon the very same NCAA rules that are the subject of a federal antitrust lawsuit in California. Lawyers representing athletes in that case, set for trial in December, are portraying the NCAA and schools as a cartel that colludes to cap the earnings of college athletes at the value of a scholarship, sending hundreds of millions of dollars in excess revenue, collectively, into school coffers and paychecks for coaches and administrators.

The NCAA, on its website, defends amateurism as a “bedrock principle of college athletics.” Amateurism rules, the NCAA states, “ensure the students’ priority remains on obtaining a quality educational experience and that all of student-athletes are competing equitably.”

If the NCAA permitted college athletes to sign endorsement deals with shoe companies, as Olympic organizations do with their athletes, legal experts noted, prosecutors would have been unable to file the wire fraud charges announced this week against Jim Gatto, an Adidas global marketing executive who also faces charges for similar allegations of arranging payments to steer recruits to Miami and Louisville.

“There are no true victims here. It’s a derivative crime based on alleged violations of a private, nonprofit entity’s internal bylaws,” said Don Jackson, an Alabama attorney who has represented athletes in NCAA rules compliance cases. “This would be like someone lying on an application to the 4-H club and getting charged with wire fraud.”

Blurred lines

Jackson is among many who note even the NCAA has struggled to determine when shoe company money flowing into a youth team is against its rules.

Among those who run grassroots basketball teams, the key to procuring shoe company money has long been clear: Get the top high school players. Such as star often can bring his team a shoe company sponsorship, which can run as much as $100,000 or $150,000 per year, to engender the kind of loyalty that will lead the player to choose to play for one of the colleges whose basketball programs are sponsored by the same company and, ultimately, to sign an endorsement deal with the company if he makes it to the NBA. Nike, Adidas and Under Armour are the three dominant spenders in the grassroots market.

In 2009, Jackson represented Renardo Sidney, a Mississippi State player who drew the NCAA’s attention because Reebok had sponsored his grassroots team and hired his father to a consultant’s position. The NCAA ultimately suspended Sidney for a season, ruling, among other violations, that Sidney’s father couldn’t properly account for money that had flowed into a nonprofit foundation he’d created, connected to the Reebok-sponsored team.

This year, however, the NCAA approved Duke freshman star Marvin Bagley III as eligible, even though the circumstances surrounding his father’s relationship with Nike raised eyebrows around grassroots and college basketball. As reported by the Oregonian last month, Bagley’s family was struggling financially a few years ago, shortly before Nike agreed to sponsor Phoenix Phamily, the grassroots team featuring Bagley III as a player and his father, Marvin Bagley Jr., as coach and team director.

[The FBI also probed payments to college athletes in the ’80s. It didn’t end well.]

In a 2016 interview with Sports Illustrated, Bagley Jr. — the father, who did not return a request to comment — said the family was relying on the Nike sponsorship and a fledgling apparel company he had created to “make ends meet.”

Bagley III attended Duke, one of Nike’s premier endorsed college teams, and after one year with the Blue Devils, he declared for the NBA draft, and is expected to be among the first players selected. Bagley III has not yet made his shoe endorsement plans public, but he is widely expected to sign with Nike.

Duke basketball officials declined to comment when asked about Bagley’s eligibility. The NCAA also declined to comment.

There are significant differences between the details publicly known about Nike’s dealings with the Bagleys and the specifics alleged in court documents of Adidas’s dealings with representatives of recruits. Nike signed Bagley’s team to a publicly announced sponsorship. Adidas executive Gatto is accused of arranging cash handoffs to families of recruits through an Adidas consultant who oversaw several grassroots teams, and at N.C State, through an assistant coach who has not been identified.

The economic realities displayed by these deals are basically the same though, economists note. Top high school recruits have more financial value — to shoe companies, agents and financial advisers — than NCAA rules currently allow them to earn.

After the first round of arrests last September, the NCAA created a commission, led by former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, to propose rules changes to college basketball. Unless the commission recommends Olympic-style rules permitting athletes to sign endorsement deals, economists and legal experts doubt it will have a significant impact in reducing these secret dealings that prosecutors in New York believe are defrauding major colleges.

“When you have a system that generates billions of dollars in revenue, and you have an unpaid labor force, you’re going to breed a black market,” Jackson said. “That’s just a fact.”

Kansas State has suspended basketball player Amaad Wainright following his Monday arrest by U.S. Marshals for his alleged connection with a January road-rage incident involving gunfire in Overland Park.

“We are aware of Amaad’s situation, and due to the seriousness of the charges he has been indefinitely suspended from our men’s basketball team per athletic department policy,” Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor said in a statement. “We take matters such as these very seriously and will re-evaluate his status as we learn more information.”

KCTV5 in Kansas City reported in February that Wainright’s car was involved in a rush hour road-rage incident on I-435 in Kansas.

“The passenger opened the door, held up a gun and shot one bullet at the back door,” the victim told KCTV5.

The bullet went through the door and lodged into the driver’s seat, but nobody was injured, according to the report. The police report showed that the passenger who fired the gun came from Wainright’s car.

In March, Kansas State responded to KCTV5 about the incident with a statement.

We are aware of the situation involving Amaad Wainright.  Amaad fully cooperated with authorities and was not charged. To our knowledge, this matter is resolved.

That was apparently not the case as Wainright is now being held by law enforcement.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Wainright has been charged with separate counts of fleeing-and-eluding and obstruction, both felonies. He is considered an “involved other” according to the report where three other charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal damage to property (estimated at $1,500) and criminal discharge of a firearm have also been filed.

The Eagle unsuccessfully attempted to reach Wainright’s parents for comment.

Wainright, a junior, averaged 2.8 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13.1 minutes per game this season for Wildcats, who made it to the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight after upsetting Kentucky in the second round.

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SALT LAKE CITY — A University of Utah football player has pleaded guilty to throwing an object at a man who allegedly hurled racial slurs at him first.

Keven Christopher Dixon, 21, took a plea in abeyance on Monday to a charge of criminal mischief, a class B misdemeanor. By entering into the plea deal, Dixon’s charge will be dismissed if he has no further violations for one year, according to court records.

Dixon’s odd case started Aug. 16. According to Salt Lake police, another man, James Donald Webster, 74, whose home is listed in court documents as being near 1700 East and 900 South, frequently drives along Guardsman Way near the University of Utah’s football practice facility.

Webster has a history of being upset with football players who jaywalk on Guardsman Way, said Salt Lake police detective Greg Wilking.

On Aug. 16, police say Webster was driving along Guardsman again, near 770 South, when he came upon a pedestrian. He stopped his car, got out and said “that if the pedestrian jaywalked again, (he) would hit him with his car,” according to the charges.

Later that same day, Webster drove by again and saw a different pedestrian. According to some witnesses, Webster may have even sped up and drove at the pedestrian once he saw him, Wilking said.

He allegedly “engaged in a verbal altercation” with that man and his friend as they got into their car.”

“(Webster) yelled racial slurs at this individual through the car window,” the charges state.

The two people in the car were Dixon and another football player, Scott Peck, according to Wilking. After they left the parking lot, they found themselves stopped at a light with Webster next to them. More words, including profanities were exchanged, prompting Dixon to throw a phone charger at Webster’s vehicle, Wilking said, allegedly breaking his windshield.

A short chase ensued following that confrontation, he said. Wester called police shortly after.

Peck was cited for careless driving, Wilking said. Webster was charged in November with two counts of disorderly conduct, a class C misdemeanor. A warrant for his arrest was issued on Feb. 16, according to court records.

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Dixon, a 6-foot-5, 290-pound junior from Buena Park, California, has yet to play in a game for the Utes. He redshirted in 2015 and saw duty on scout teams in 2016 and 2017. Dixon is considered to be in the mix for a backup role at left tackle this season.

Peck is no longer on the football team, having to retire for medical reasons after one season as a redshirt. The former offensive lineman remains on scholarship as a “medical non-counter” to complete his education.

Utah football coach Kyle Whittingham addressed the incident with Peck and Dixon at the time.

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Ravens rookie cornerback Marlon Humphrey has been arrested in Alabama and charged with third-degree robbery, according to the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office.

The Ravens’ 2017 first-round draft pick and former Alabama player was booked into Tuscaloosa County Jail on Thursday on a $2,500 bond. It’s considered a third-degree felony.

The alleged robbery occurred Jan. 13 and involved a $15 phone charger. The original incident report referred to it as a fourth-degree misdemeanor, different from the charging document.

According to the incident report, Humphrey, 21, and two female companions were picked up by an Uber driver at about 2 a.m. on Jan. 13 and taken to Hotel Capstone in Tuscaloosa. During the ride, Humphrey asked to borrow a cell phone cable to charge his phone.

The document further states that at the hotel, Humphrey refused to return the cable and grabbed several other cables from the vehicle. When the driver attempted to retrieve the cables, Humphrey refused and elbowed the driver aside, which did not leave a mark or cause personal injury, according to the report.

The driver alleged that Humphrey balled up his fist and implied he would get into a fight if the driver continued to try to recover the items. When Humphrey got out of the vehicle, he damaged additional property owned by the driver, according to the report.

Humphrey’s attorney, Paul Patterson, disputed the driver’s side of the incident as outlined in the incident report, adding that “Marlon has 11 million reasons not to steal a … phone charger.”

Humphrey signed a four-year, $11.8 million contract before his rookie season.

“Marlon has not had an opportunity to tell his side of the story,” Patterson said Thursday evening. “The Uber driver makes a lot of allegations in that report that simply are not true. Fortunately for Marlon, we have eyewitnesses who are willing to testify about what accurately transpired between Marlon and the Uber driver.”

Patterson said he thinks the district attorney’s office will dismiss the case once Humphrey recounts his version of what happened.

“We intend on asking for a preliminary hearing to determine if probable cause has been established to continue forward,” Patterson said. “The future looks bright for Marlon in this incident, and I would hope to have this matter resolved in the next few months.”

The document states that officers from the University of Alabama police department found Humphrey inside the hotel and holding the cell phone cable. Although Humphrey contended that the cable was his, officers noticed that the cable did not fit his phone and returned it to the driver.

University of Alabama police made the arrest because the incident occurred at the hotel, which is located in the 300 block of Paul W. Bryant Drive on the university campus.

The Ravens issued a statement on the arrest: “Marlon told us that it was a misunderstanding regarding a $15 telephone charger, which he thought was his. Our understanding is that he has been interviewed by University of Alabama Police and is cooperating. We are monitoring the situation.”

According to Alabama code, a person commits robbery in the third degree if in the course of committing a theft he or she:

(1) Uses force against the person of the owner or any person present with intent to overcome his physical resistance or physical power of resistance; or

(2) Threatens the imminent use of force against the person of the owner or any person present with intent to compel acquiescence to the taking of or escaping with the property.

Humphrey, the No. 16 overall pick in last year’s draft, ended the season as a starting cornerback, replacing the injured Jimmy Smith. Humphrey ranked second on the defense in pass breakups with 11 and intercepted a pair of passes. Pro Football Focus ranked Humphrey fifth among cornerbacks in lowest passer rating in coverage and lowest catch percentage allowed at the end of the regular season.

He has been taking classes at Alabama and working toward his bachelor’s degree.

Another former Alabama standout was arrested in Tuscaloosa earlier this month. Reuben Foster, who just finished his rookie season for the San Francisco 49ers, was arrested Jan. 12 and charged with second-degree possession of marijuana, according to the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office arrest database.

Patterson said the incident is more of a public relations nuisance for Humphrey.

“It’s a sad event because the Humphrey family has a fine reputation in our community and now Marlon will be challenged with repairing his reputation even though it was a simple mistake,” Patterson said.

Humphrey has been unavailable for comment. His agent Joel Segal said he would return a phone call, but did not respond to subsequent calls.

Humphrey did provide a post via Twitter earlier on Thursday.

Strong safety Tony Jefferson came to his young teammate’s defense.

Wide receiver Michael Campanaro took aim at a certain mobile phone company.

And defensive back Lardarius Webb trolled Humphrey.

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