DMN Blog: Troy Hambrick sentenced to five years in prison

[Angus]

May 13, 2008
T. Hambrick sentenced to five years
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From the Associated Press ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Tampa judge has sentenced former NFL running back Troy Hambrick to five years in prison for selling crack cocaine.

The former Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals player was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday.

Hambrick pleaded guilty on Feb. 26 to one count of distributing 50 grams or more of crack cocaine.

Court documents show Hambrick sold the drugs in 2007 to a confidential informants near his home in Lacoochee, about 40 miles north of Tampa.

Hambrick's NFL career spanned five seasons. His best year was 2003 when he rushed for 972 yards and five touchdowns for Dallas

Hambrick joins Sherman Williams as ex-Emmitt Smith backups sentenced to prison for selling drugs.

Darren Hambrick, Troy's older brother and the ex-Cowboys LB best known for a gramatically incorrect request for the definition of "voluntary," is no stranger to the Lacoochee police department, either. After his rookie season, he was charged with fleeing a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence after jumping from his moving truck and running into the woods when an officer tried to pull him over for speeding. The officer noted that there was a strong odor of burnt marijuana in the truck, and Hambrick was arrested when he showed up in another car claiming he had loaned the truck to a friend. His muddy socks ruined his alibi.

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[Stash]

"What do 'convicted' mean?"

 

[Doomsday101]

Why am I not shocked?

 

[adbutcher]

That dude is foolish, plain and simple.

 

[Hostile]

That dude is foolish, plain and simple.

I will never understand how these guys can live a dream that so many of us have and throw it all away. I just don't get it.

 

[Dallas]

What do "Ben Dover" mean? :laugh2:

 

[Clove]

Those Hambrick boys aren't a bright bunch.

 

[Hostile]

What do "Ben Dover" mean? :laugh2:

That's Seymous Butz best friend.

 

[adbutcher]

I will never understand how these guys can live a dream that so many of us have and throw it all away. I just don't get it.

He was lazy and he had to be partially mentally challenged.

Especially passing up the opportunity to be with LB. Speaking of LB, she is getting married. There goes my dream of getting a divorce and eloping with her, lol.

 

[Tenkamenin]

Why am I not shocked?

What flaws in his character did you see that would make you think he dealt crack?

That is a suprising and saddening to me!

 

[adbutcher]

What do "Ben Dover" mean? :laugh2:

:laugh2:

 

[Hostile]

He was lazy and he had to be partially mentally challenged.

Especially passing up the opportunity to be with LB. Speaking of LB, she is getting married. There goes my dream of getting a divorce and eloping with her, lol.

Hey, please tell her hello and congrats. I miss her.

 

[adbutcher]

What flaws in his character did you see that would make you think he dealt crack?

That is a suprising and saddening to me!

Not me. He had made it to the show and still didn't want to work hard. He is the classic looser type; receives a lot in life but doesn't appreciate it, now it is gone and he has no one to blame but himself.

 

[adbutcher]

Hey, please tell her hello and congrats. I miss her.

I will bro.

 

[jcblanco22]

Darren Hambrick, Troy's older brother and the ex-Cowboys LB best known for a gramatically incorrect request for the definition of "voluntary," is no stranger to the Lacoochee police department, either. After his rookie season, he was charged with fleeing a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence after jumping from his moving truck and running into the woods when an officer tried to pull him over for speeding. The officer noted that there was a strong odor of burnt marijuana in the truck, and Hambrick was arrested when he showed up in another car claiming he had loaned the truck to a friend. His muddy socks ruined his alibi.

"What do voluntary mean?" always got all the play and hype in the Darren Hambrick Hi-Jinks category, but the part of that particular story that I bolded above has always been much funnier to me.

 

[Doomsday101]

What flaws in his character did you see that would make you think he dealt crack?

That is a suprising and saddening to me!

I just said this does not come as a shock. I don't think Hambrick was very mature to begin with. I hate the fact he was this stupid to do something like this but as I would say about any drug dealer I’m glad he will no longer be able to sell his trash on the streets. Sorry I don't think I will see a day where I feel bad for a drug dealer.

 

[jcblanco22]

He was lazy and he had to be partially mentally challenged.

Especially passing up the opportunity to be with LB. Speaking of LB, she is getting married. There goes my dream of getting a divorce and eloping with her, lol.

In all seriousness, and not that this excuses anything, but I remember, as a lot of long-time 'Boys fans with good memories probably do, that the Hambricks' hardscrabble upbringings had been well documented.

In particular, does anyone remember the whole incident at the University of Florida that got Darren kicked out of there? At a team banquet he had apparently attacked a white teammate with a broken bottle because the guy had been mercilessly riding Hambrick for a long time about his ragged clothing and the generally impoverished conditions from which he'd come from and that his family still lived in at the time.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Those Hambrick boys aren't a bright bunch.

 

[djtavo]

MIAMI (Reuters) - Former National Football League running back Troy Hambrick was sentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for trafficking crack cocaine in Florida.


Hambrick, who played for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals during a five-year professional career, was arrested for allegedly selling nearly 200 grams of crack for $5,600 to an undercover informant in three separate deals last September.
The deals took place near Hambrick's home in Lacoochee, Florida, where he made his name as a high school football star, and from his Lincoln Navigator at a gas station in nearby Dade City, northeast of Tampa.
He entered a guilty plea on February 26 to one count of distributing cocaine. In return, prosecutors dropped two other counts.
Hambrick, 31, played college football at the University of South Carolina and Savannah State University. He played four seasons with the Cowboys and one with the Cardinals in a career that ended following the 2004 season.
Hambrick rushed for 2,179 yards and nine touchdowns during those five seasons, averaging 4.1 yards per carry. His best season was 2003, when he carried 275 times for 932 yards.
His brother, Darren Hambrick, also played in the NFL, with
Dallas, Cleveland and Carolina.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

what an idiot!