The arrest of an NFL player could have turned deadly when police held a gun to his face when taking him into custody, TMZ reports.

Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Bashaud Breeland was arrested Tuesday (April 28) at a gas station in Fort Mill, South Carolina, after a York County Sheriff’s Deputy claims he saw him and two other individuals in a car smoking marijuana. 

Breeland, 28, recently signed a new one-year contract with the Chiefs, who won Super Bowl LIV in February.

The cop says that Breeland became irate when questioned and a confrontation between the two began, then escalated. In video footage from the arrest, the officer tries to put Breeland in handcuffs, but he refused. The officer eventually pulls out a taser and tells him to cease resisting. 

“Put your hands behind your back or you will get tased,” the officer can be heard saying. “Turn around and face away from me! You’ll get tased!”

But Breeland gets away from the officer and moves back into the car. That’s when the cop pulls out his gun and places it inches from Breeland’s face. “Let me see your hands! … I’m not playing!”

Breeland gets out of the car, lays on the ground and allows the officer to place him in handcuffs. He was arrested and taken to jail, TMZ says.

Breeland was charged with resisting arrest, having open containers of liquor in a motor vehicle, marijuana possession and driving without a license, according to ESPN. He was released from jail Tuesday night on bond.

Breeland’s lawyers questioned the reason for police drawing a gun on him and reportedly “look forward to reviewing all available evidence in this matter.”

Breeland himself did not comment directly on the incident, only posting to Instagram a segment from his song “Bree Talk under his rap moniker, 26 Breezy.

[Editor’s Note: Explicit lyrics]

A Chiefs representative said the team was aware of what happened but had no comment, according to ESPN.

Scary police footage has emerged of former NFL star Darren McFadden crashing his car into a wall and being arrested.

In February, the former Dallas Cowboys and Oakland Raiders running back pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated from a 2019 incident at a Whataburger restaurant in Texas.

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Police said they arrived at the fast-food restaurant after employees found him passed out in his GMC Yukon in the drive-thru shortly after midnight on January 21, 2019.

Police say that McFadden resisted arrest during the incident that ended with windows broken out of his car.

TMZ obtained police body camera footage of the arrest on Monday that shows all of the above to be true. And more.

Wild video shows McFadden driving his car into the wall of the restaurant while passed out at the wheel before officers scramble to detain him and prevent further damage.

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The video starts with an officer knocking on the driver’s side window as McFadden is clearly asleep at the wheel. The car is running, and an officer notes that it’s in drive.

When McFadden doesn’t respond to their knocks, officers begin shaking the SUV to try get his attention.

“Is he alive?” one officer asks.

The SUV then takes off and crashes into the side of the Whataburger. The wheels continue to spin as the nose of the car is wedged against the brick wall. Officers then begin to slam their flashlights into his windows to try to break into the car.

Another angle (at the 3-minute mark of the video) from an officer’s camera at the passenger window confirms that McFadden was indeed unconscious when he apparently hit the gas and slammed into the Whataburger.

An officer eventually got the driver’s side door open, when McFadden woke up, clearly confused. He resisted the officers’ attempt to detain him prompting one to pull his Taser out.

McFadden then followed officers’ orders to get on the ground, where he was handcuffed and detained.

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McFadden sentenced to four days in jail

In February, McFadden was sentenced to four days in jail after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated.

He was charged with with driving with a BAC of greater than or equal to .15. A resisting arrest charge that carried up to two years in prison was dismissed as part of the plea deal.

McFadden, 32, played 10 seasons in the NFL from 2008-17.

A first-round pick of the Raiders in 2008, McFadden played seven seasons in Oakland before joining the Cowboys in 2015.

He finished his career in Dallas and hasn’t played since the 2017 season.

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KNOXVILLE, Tenn — Bodycam and patrol car footage reveals more details about the arrest of a UT football player that Coach Jeremy Pruitt called “unacceptable” and prompted an apology from the player.

Vols linebacker Jeremy Banks, 19, was arrested after a traffic stop revealed he had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear out of Knox County.

On July 17, 2019, he was charged with driving on a suspended license after being pulled over on Kingston Pike at South Concord Street. That charge still applied when he was stopped early in the morning Sunday, Sept. 15, the day after the UT-Chattanooga game.

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In the video, which was released at the request of 10News, Banks said he was dropping off a friend at Stokely Hall when he was pulled over for making an illegal U-turn.

WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE

He initially told the officer that he didn’t have his license on him, but then admitted it was suspended.

When the officer ran Banks’ information, he found the outstanding warrant with a $500 bond and placed him under arrest.

As the officer patted him down, Banks said he was a football player and asked to call head coach Jeremy Pruitt multiple times.

Banks was led to a patrol car and put in the back seat.

Officers asked if he had anything illegal in his car, and when he said no, he consented to have it searched. Officers did not find anything illegal in the car.

Since his car was not impounded, officers helped Banks call a friend to come and pick it up. However, when the friend arrived, officers found his license was suspended as well.

Banks’ friend called another person to come to pick up the car. With his license coming back as valid, Banks asked for them to post his bond and they were able to move the car.

Banks then called Pruitt, who ended up talking to the arresting officer on speakerphone. 

Pruitt told the officer that he was aware of the traffic ticket and had a state trooper walk Banks through the process of paying it off since Banks had no one at home to help him with legal issues.

Pruitt said he was not aware of the warrant and asked about it several times.

WARNING: ADULT LANGUAGE

“So why do you, I mean, why do you have to arrest him just ’cause he’s a warrant?” Pruitt can be heard saying over the phone. 

“That’s because the state of Tennessee is the one who issued the warrant so I have to take him in for that warrant. Like I said, I have no choice about that. If it was just a suspended license, I could have discretion on that,” the officer replied.

For most of the video, Banks was cooperative and respectful to the officers and spent a lot of time in the back of the cruiser.

He asked to have his cuffs adjusted a couple of times because they were too tight and swore at officers a few times when he got frustrated.

Banks also asked to call a friend to tell him which detention facility he was going to so he could be bonded out.

Just before they started toward the detention center, Banks made a controversial comment to a woman who was riding along with the officer.

“Ma’am, you don’t wanna be an intern because where I’m from we shoot at cops. I’m from Memphis, Tennessee,” he said.

The officer stopped the conversation before it could escalate.

On the way to the detention center, Banks alternated between singing, making light conversation and insulting the officer.

“I should have ran, test y’all’s speed. Y’all would’ve never caught me,” Banks said repeatedly in the cruiser. 

Banks also told the officer he’s going to make sure he can’t get into Neyland Stadium.

At the time of his arrest, UT athletics said in a statement, “We are aware of the situation. It was related to an unresolved traffic violation which he has now resolved.”

Banks remains on the team at this time. He traveled with the team to Florida but did not play.

In a statement on Tuesday, Pruitt said, “Jeremy’s behavior and comments are unacceptable and portrayed himself and our football program very poorly and he understands that. We will address the matter internally. I’m determined to do what I can to help Jeremy grow up and become a better man. Our team and staff respect our law enforcement and we will continue to educate our players on how to carry themselves at all times.”

Banks also made a statement on Tuesday saying, “I want to sincerely apologize to my family, the University of Tennessee and the law enforcement community. I deeply regret my language and attitude in the video. I have great respect for our policemen and women, and I am embarrassed by my actions that night. That’s not who I am. I promise to be a better representative for the University of Tennessee moving forward.”

Zach Lentz is a Clemson University alumnus who got his start working with the Tigers basketball team from 1999-2004. Now a resident of Orangeburg County, he reports on Clemson sports as a correspondent for The Times and Democrat.

Zach Lentz is a Clemson University alumnus who got his start working with the Tigers basketball team from 1999-2004. Now a resident of Orangeburg County, he reports on Clemson sports as a correspondent for The Times and Democrat.

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April 11, 2018 06:18:28

Before dawn on a Saturday in May last year, police in Canberra identified a group of men on CCTV.

Two of them had played in the Anzac rugby league Test the previous night.

They were then New Zealand captain Jesse Bromwich and fellow Kiwi international Kevin Proctor. After losing the game they were now doing lines of cocaine outside a city nightclub, just hours after playing for their country.

“They’re both really, you know, really top-quality players,” Adrian Crowther, who partied with the footballers that night, said.

Mr Crowther was a big fan of Bromwich’s club Melbourne Storm.

He had been to the Test that night and bought the players drinks as a sign of his appreciation.

One of the players’ entourage asked Mr Crowther if he had any cocaine. It did not take long for him to get his hands on some.

“Let’s do this,” Mr Crowther told the men.

“I just wanted to get on it with these guys,” Mr Crowther told 7.30.

“I thought it was just a great opportunity to carry on drinking with them.”

‘They had some lines and we stood around chatting’

CCTV footage obtained by 7.30 shows the group outside the nightclub joking, play-fighting and snorting lines of cocaine off Mr Crowther’s phone.

“They had some lines and we just stood around chatting,” Mr Crowther said.

“They were real drunk,” he said.

“I remember Jesse swaying ’cause he’s such a big man.”

According to a statement of facts, police observed Bromwich and Proctor on CCTV consuming a white powder that was later tested and found to be cocaine.

Under ACT law, the possession and supply of drugs such as cocaine is illegal, but using it is not an offence.

When police arrived, neither player was searched or arrested. Mr Crowther said the officers shook hands with the players and then left.

But Mr Crowther was taken to the city watch house.

He was charged with cocaine and MDMA possession. He was later convicted and fined $5250.

The players were suspended and fined by their clubs, but Mr Crowther said he did not think it was fair they walked free.

“I thought it was wrong,” he said.

“I’m not making excuses for what I did but, you know, we should all be tarred with the same brush.”

The timing for rugby league, could not have been worse.

It came after the Titans were engulfed in the 2015 cocaine scandal that threatened to destroy the club.

Seven of the Titans’ current and former players faced criminal charges for supplying cocaine. There were calls for the Titans’ licence to be revoked.

Three of the players, including former State of Origin player David Taylor, junior player Jamie Dowling and former back Joe Vickery, pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of possession although none had convictions recorded.

Four others — star Greg Bird, hooker Beau Falloon, retired representative forward Ashley Harrison and back Kalifa Faifai Loa — all had their charges dropped due to lack of evidence.

Two years later, the Titans’ then co-captain Proctor was doing cocaine on the street.

Former league player ran cocaine syndicate

A 7.30 investigation has examined the syndicate that supplied cocaine to footballers across three codes. It was run by former rugby league player John Touma, who played for the Sydney Roosters in the 1980s.

“I got on very well with him,” former NRL player Mario Fenech told 7.30.

“He’s a Mascot fella and I played for Mascot as well.”

Long after his football career had ended, Touma reinvented himself on the Gold Coast.

He had a wine business that was a front for his cocaine dealing. He was known to customers as “Leather”.

Leather’s network would drive to Sydney to pick up cocaine and sell it across south-east Queensland, with the epicentre on the Gold Coast.

Jim Keogh was a Gold Coast police commander investigating the cocaine trade and he uncovered deep connections to rugby league.

“We found a number of footballers may have been involved in the use of cocaine as well as organised crime figures,” Mr Keogh said.

“Touma was an ex-rugby league player,” Campbell McCallum, a criminal lawyer who defended six of the seven Titans players associated with the syndicate, said.

“He’d been involved with club functions with the Titans and he was a person who had a son who ran out at the start of one of the games.”

One of Touma’s drug couriers was Matthew Seers, a star fullback who played for the North Sydney Bears and New South Wales in the 1990s.

“No-one caught him because he was super quick,” Fenech, who played alongside Seers at North Sydney, said.

“He turned and chased and tackled Brett Mullens in a semi-final in ’94 and caught him. Unbelievable,” former Bears front rower Josh Stuart, who still counts Seers as a friend, said.

He became aware of Seers’ cocaine habit in 1997 during an end-of-season celebration.

“It’s unfortunate, he made a couple of bad decisions,” Stuart said.

“Those bad decisions turn to life-long decisions because he become addicted to the stuff.”

‘I had plenty of mates in my era that loved drugs’

Fenech says cocaine use was rife among players in the 1980s and 1990s and he was regularly offered drugs.

“I don’t want to say names but I had plenty of mates in my era that loved drugs,” he said.

“I had people come up to you … with the cocaine and I used to say ‘no it’s not for me, I don’t have that’.

“Girls would offer it to me and look at me like I was an idiot because they couldn’t believe that I knocked it back.”

Seers tested positive for cocaine while playing for the Bears and briefly went to rehab. He spent time living with another North Sydney teammate on the New South Wales central coast but struggled to stay clean.

Stuart said the North Sydney club could have done more to help Seers.

“I think it was handled very poorly,” he told 7.30.

What Touma did not know was the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission was tapping his phone and had a listening device inside his apartment.

The syndicate came crashing down in December 2014 when the crime commission raided his apartment.

Inside investigators found five mobile phones and $6000 in cash.

By chance, partway through the raid, Seers arrived at the apartment in Touma’s car. Investigators found cocaine under the driver’s seat.

In February Touma was sentenced to nine years in prison. Seers was sentenced to four years’ jail over his role in the syndicate. In a court statement, Seers said he “made some stupid decisions”, was unemployed and abusing cocaine after he retired from football.

Stuart is now part of a group of ex-Bears players who are planning to visit Seers in prison and want to support him once he is released.

“In 1994 he’s a superstar and 2018 he’s in jail,” he told 7.30.

Former Titans star Preston Campbell also played against Seers.

“When you hang up the boots and you take that jumper off you’re a different person,” he told 7.30.

“You’re not that star that’s played for his country, played for his state, that’s won a grand final. You’re just Matt Seers, and it’s a very scary prospect to look at that.

“You turn around and you think ‘where’s it all gone and what am I going to do now?'”

Drugs a ‘societal problem not limited to sport’

Next month another former Titans player will front a Gold Coast court on 10 counts of supplying cocaine.

He will be represented by Mr MacCallum.

“He will certainly be defending a number of the charges that are before the court,” Mr MacCallum told 7.30.

The Titans declined to answer questions related to this story.

The NRL said it had increased its drug testing since the Canberra nightclub incident, with more than 2,500 tests conducted over the 2017 season.

It claimed that its illicit drugs policy was one of the toughest of any sporting code.

An NRL spokesman said illicit drug use was a “societal problem not limited to professional sport” and “players are like any other people and will make mistakes, and we are realistic that sometimes those mistakes will involve drugs”.

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April 11, 2018 06:09:07

ISLE OF WIGHT, Va. (WAVY) – The Isle of Wight Sheriff’s Office has released body camera video of traffic stop that put a former Virginia State University women’s basketball player behind bars.

Officials say they stopped a car on Route 460 earlier this week. One deputy tells WAVY-TV he clocked the driver going 68 mph in a 55 mph zone on Feb. 12.

“You got your driver’s license?” the deputy asked the driver.

“No, I got nothing,” the driver answered. “What am I being pulled over for?”

Deputies say the driver, identified as Shonnice Vaughn and her passenger, Natasha Bowman, weren’t willing to cooperate.

“Don’t make this harder than it has to be,” the deputy said to them in the video.

“This particular case the deputy was met with a lot of resistance from the individuals,” said Isle of Wight Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant James Pope.

Things became serious during the traffic stop when the deputy noticed something on the floor of the car.

“Where is the gun at?” the deputy asked Vaughn and Bowman.

“We don’t have the gun,” Bowman answered.

“Why is there a holster?” the deputy asked.

The video shows Vaughn making a phone call to her college basketball coach and then she rolls up the window.

Vaughn was on the Virginia State University basketball team. VSU Spokeswoman Pamela Turner said Vaughn has been off the team for a couple weeks now. It was Vaughn’s decision to leave the team.

After both women were out of the car, deputies found a gun they say belonged to Vaughn.

“The stop was for a speeding charge,” Pope added. “It’s releasable on a summons. She would have been issued a summons and released on her business.”

Vaughn was charged with speeding, concealing a weapon, obstruction of justice and driving without a license. Bowman was also charged with concealing a weapon.

Both suspects made court appearances Wednesday morning.

They were each given a $2,000 bond and will be back in court in April.

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ISLE OF WIGHT, Va. (WAVY) – The Isle of Wight Sheriff’s Office has released body camera video of traffic stop that put a Virginia State University women’s basketball player behind bars.

Officials say they stopped a car on Route 460 Monday night.  One deputy tells 10 On Your Side he clocked the driver going 68 mph in a 55 mph zone.

“You got your driver’s license?” the deputy asked the driver.

“No I got nothing,” the driver answered.  “What am I being pulled over for?”

Deputies say the driver, identified as Shonnice Vaughn and her passenger, Natasha Bowman, weren’t willing to cooperate.

“Don’t make this harder than it has to be,” the deputy said to them in the video.

“This particular case the deputy was met with a lot of resistance from the individuals,” said Isle of Wight Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant James Pope.

Things became serious during the traffic stop when the deputy noticed something on the floor of the car.

“Where is the gun at?” the deputy asked Vaughn and Bowman.

“We don’t have the gun,” Bowman answered.

“Why is there a holster?” the deputy asked.

The video shows Vaughn making a phone call to her college basketball coach and then she rolls up the window.

Vaughn was on the Virginia State University basketball team.  She is no longer listed on the roster.

After both women were out of the car, deputies found a gun they say belonged to Vaughn.

“The stop was for a speeding charge,” Pope added. “It’s releasable on a summons. She would have been issued a summons and released on her business.”

Vaughn was charged with speeding, concealing a weapon, obstruction of justice and driving without a license.  Bowman was also charged with concealing a weapon.

Both suspects made court appearances Wednesday morning. They were each given a $2,000 bond and will be back in court in April.

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UPDATE @ 3:25 p.m. (Feb. 9):

Caleb W. Johnson was indicted Friday on two counts of aggravated robbery and single counts of kidnapping and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle, according to court records.

A warrant has been issued for his arrest.

Update@2:55 p.m. (Feb. 9):

Caleb W. Johnson, 18, the only adult among the group of seven teens accused of robbing the Huber Heights AT&T store, has posted bond and is no longer in jail, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s office. No other details were immediately available. 

First report: 

The All-Ohio football player from Springfield High School admitted to his role in the robbery of a Huber Heights AT&T store, according to a court paperwork.

Caleb W. Johnson, 18 — the only adult among a group of seven teens charged in the Feb. 1 armed robbery — appeared Monday in the Montgomery County Municipal Court in Huber Heights.

A judge entered a plea of not guilty on Johnson’s behalf and set bond at $50,000 with electronic home detention (EHD) if Johnson makes bail.

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A preliminary hearing wasn’t scheduled because the judge said it’s a bypass case that will go to a grand jury for possible felony indictment and placement in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

Several of Johnson’s friends and current and/or ex-teammates arrived near the end of the proceedings and prayed outside the courthouse. All of his supporters refused to be interviewed on the record.

Johnson admitted to the armed robbery, according to a complaint and affidavit filed by a detective. Johnson was charged with aggravated robbery, two counts of failure to comply with the order or signal of a police officer and improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle.

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Johnson — who attended Trotwood-Madison High School until his senior year — had no juvenile court record in Montgomery County outside of a traffic violation. Johnson, a wide receiver, was to make a recruiting visit to Eastern Kentucky University, according to coach Maurice Douglass.

After the juvenile court hearing on Friday, an aunt of one of the defendants said many of the boys knew each other from playing youth football with the Dayton Flames.

One of Johnson’s co-defendants, a 16-year-old Trotwood boy, was one of multiple juveniles charged in an April 2016 incident in which a car was stolen and drove away from a gas station with the vehicle’s driver clinging on the hood.

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Cherity Martin, 23, suffered a broken wrist, various cuts and bruises to her arms and legs and a minor head injury, according to Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office deputies. She had been driving her mother’s Chrysler Sebring when she stopped to buy a soft drink.

The juvenile was 14 when that happened, according to Montgomery County Juvenile Court records and has the longest record of the six facing possible transfers to adult court.

Deputies suspected a group of juveniles were involved in the theft of a car in Moraine. The 2016 incidents resulted in the arrest of six juveniles from 14 to 17 years old for the aggravated robbery at the Valero gas station on Philadelphia Drive in Harrison Twp. and the car theft.

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Some of those juveniles also were suspected in an attempted break-in of a Sprint store at The Greene in Beavercreek.

Huber Heights police are speaking with law enforcement in Springfield and Miami Twp. to determine if similar crimes are connected to last week’s Huber Heights AT&T robbery.

The six juvenile suspects face another court hearing Feb. 16.

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