SeaHags UFA TE Stevens arrested DUI and Possesion...

[jksmith269]

Stevens arrested, charged with drunken drivingBy Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com


Unrestricted free agent tight end Jerramy Stevens, the former first-round draft choice whose five-year tenure with the Seattle Seahawks was marked by bad hands and poor off-field decisions, was arrested early Tuesday morning in Scottsdale, Ariz., and charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana.



Stevens

The incident, which occurred around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday, isn't the first time that Stevens, 27, has run afoul of the law.

In June 2003, he pleaded guilty to reckless driving in a plea deal after being stopped in the Seattle suburb of Medina on investigation of drunken driving. He got a two-day jail sentence for that offense.



He received another five days in jail for violating his probation after he drove into a nursing home in 2000 in a hit-and-run case. Stevens was a student at Washington at the time of that incident.

Stevens has spent his entire career with the Seahawks, who have had discussions during the free-agency period about re-signing him. It is not known how the Tuesday incident might affect any negotiations or if Stevens will come under league review.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have also indicated an interest in Stevens, and several other teams have inquired about him as well.



On Tuesday, the Seahawks addressed their tight end situation by signing 12-year veteran Marcus Pollard, an unrestricted free agent, to a one-year contract.



Stevens was taken into custody Tuesday after being stopped by police officers near downtown Scottsdale and telling them he had "four or five margaritas" at a local bar. According to the police report, Stevens was driving erratically and, when stopped, police noticed his eyes were "bloodshot, watery and half-closed."



The tight end refused a portable Breathalyzer test, but officers subsequently obtained a search warrant and drew two vials of blood for testing. Police did not reveal the blood alcohol content. Stevens was cited for possession of marijuana when officers found it in his back pocket.



Stevens was released after posting bail.



A first-round pick in the 2002 draft, the former University of Washington standout has been an enigma for much of his career, a player blessed with enormous physical skills, but who has rarely played to his potential. In 71 appearances, including 26 starts, he has 130 catches for 1,458 yards and 15 touchdowns.



He was a starter for the Seahawks in Super Bowl XL after the 2005 season, but was ridiculed for dropping three passes in that game.



Pollard, 35, played 10 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts (1995-2004) before signing with Detroit as a free agent in 2005 and spending two years with the Lions. He has 321 receptions for 4,007 yards and 38 touchdowns in 177 games.



A former basketball player at Bradley University and signed by the Colts as an undrafted free agent, Pollard has six seasons of 30-plus catches.

 

[McCordsville Cowboy]

Joey Porter was right....

Stevens is soft....

 

[Pabst]

If he had problems with dropped passes, he'll surely have problems dropping soap.

Edit - Four or Five? What a light-weight.

 

[Roughneck]

This comes as a surprise to......no one.

What a waste of size and talent.

 

[notherbob]

Just more proof that money can't buy smarts.

 

[CrazyCowboy]

Unrestricted free agent tight end Jerramy Stevens, the former first-round draft choice whose five-year tenure with the Seattle Seahawks was marked by bad hands and poor off-field decisions, was arrested early Tuesday morning in Scottsdale, Ariz., and charged with driving under the influence and possession of marijuana.

This was a very smart and classy move at the right time.

 

[AbeBeta]

If he had problems with dropped passes, he'll surely have problems dropping soap.
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DUI is irresponsible. Possession of marijuana -- well, I'd imagine many folks on the board are breaking that law right now. But there is no way that someone should go to any sort of jail where you have ot worry about dropping the soap for something like that.

 

[Big Dakota]

DUI is irresponsible. Possession of marijuana -- well, I'd imagine many folks on the board are breaking that law right now. But there is no way that someone should go to any sort of jail where you have ot worry about dropping the soap for something like that.

Until he smashes into your family, killing them all while stoned to the gills.The man was DRIVING and smoking.

 

[Mavs Man]

Upon first reading this thread title I thought this was Tim Hardaway's most hated team.

 

[Rampage]

If he had problems with dropped passes, he'll surely have problems dropping soap.

Edit - Four or Five? What a light-weight.

yeah cause he's going to jail

 

[Achozen]

I don't understand why these multimillionaire's are risking their careers/lives driving under the influence.

Is it really that hard to get a cab?

 

[AbeBeta]

Until he smashes into your family, killing them all while stoned to the gills.The man was DRIVING and smoking.

You can't legitimately punish people based what MIGHT have happened. He was drunk and possibly stoned. Nothing happened, he and everyone else around are lucky that it didn't. But he isn't going to do serious time for this. He'll likely not spend any time in jail.

 

[AbeBeta]

I don't understand why these multimillionaire's are risking their careers/lives driving under the influence.

Is it really that hard to get a cab?

to be fair, an alcohol limit of .08 is pretty low -- a good law, no argument from me -- but lots of people don't feel very impaired at that level.

 

[Big Dakota]

You can't legitimately punish people based what MIGHT have happened. He was drunk and possibly stoned. Nothing happened, he and everyone else around are lucky that it didn't. But he isn't going to do serious time for this. He'll likely not spend any time in jail.

I agree he'll get away with it, but it's dangerous and him not going to jail doesn't make it right. He has a history with this stuff and i guess till he hurts someone, he won't get in too much trouble. Just hope you don't know anyone in his vicinity when he's out on the road tore up.

As far as the pot goes. Booze is 10 times as destructive IMHO and pot is pretty much a victimless crime in and of itself, but do it at home and stay off the road.

 

[The Realist]

Didn't this guy have a drinking problem while still in school?

 

[Big Dakota]

Didn't this guy have a drinking problem while still in school?

Jerramy Stevens charged with hitting a man with a baseball bat and breaking his jaw, June 1998


"They were calling me 'Louisville Slugger' last year," he said.

Stevens can laugh now, but it wasn't so funny when he sat in ThurstonCounty Correctional Facility the summer before he entered the UW because he tested positive for marijuana while awaiting a court date to face assault charges. Stevens spent three weeks in jail

Stevens was charged with two counts of assault in a June 1998 fight at a park in suburban Olympia. He and a friend initially were accused of hitting a man with a baseball bat and kicking him in the face, breaking his jaw. Stevens was allowed to attend football training camp only after a judge signed an order releasing him from house arrest. Stevens eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for kicking the man. Prosecutors determined he had not acted as an accomplice of his friend, who was convicted of a more serious charge in the bat assault.



Jerramy Stevens charged with drugging and raping a 19-year-old girl, June 2000



Due to lack of evidence, Jerramy Stevens was charged with sexual assault, King County prosecutors announced.

"The investigation in this case was very thorough, and the facts are as well-developed as they could be. The facts do not, however, provide sufficient evidence to meet the statutory elements of rape in any degree," said King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng in a prepared statement.

According to police reports obtained last July, the alleged victim woke up the next morning, wearing nothing but a T-shirt and her bra, which were pushed down around her waist. The fleece jacket Stevens was wearing the night before was in her room, she told detectives.

She had been drinking and remembered having two drinks at the party, one of which was brought to her pre-opened.

Prosecutors said that because the alleged victim had been drinking, she could not remember "substantial portions" of the evening on June 3, including the events leading up to and specific details about the alleged assault, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor's office.

Under those circumstances prosecutors must prove that the victim was physically helpless or mentally incapable of consenting to sex, Donohoe said.

REMEMBER!

Across the country, collecting scientific evidence that women who were raped had been slipped these drugs has proven extraordinarily difficult.

The drugs move through the body quickly. Standard screenings in hospitals are unlikely to pick up these particular drugs. And because the drugs can make the victim black out, it often takes awhile for women to piece together what happened, delaying necessary tests.




Jerramy Stevens charged in hit-and-run, May 2001

Richard Stephens identified UW football player Jerramy Stevens as the driver of a truck that crashed into the wall below his window at a retirement home on 15th Avenue Northeast.

Richard Stephens, a 72-year-old Gardens resident who lives directly above the woman's apartment, said he called 911 while watching the driver scurrying to flee.
"I thought he was injured at first, then I thought he was drunk because he fell down a couple of times," Stephens said.

Shortly before 1 a.m., Stevens, 21, drove the red truck over shrubs and landscaping rocks, then rammed a side wall at Merrill Gardens at Northgate, 11501 15th Ave. N.E, according to a police report.

The truck ripped a hole in the wall and shattered a window in a bedroom where a 92-year-old woman was sleeping, managers said. The impact knocked a dresser onto the woman's bed, but she escaped injury.

A witness told police Stevens fell twice trying to free the pickup, eventually using books for leverage under its tires.



Jerramy Stevens DUI, sentenced to five days in jail and 40 hours of community service, June 2003


Judge Theresa Doyle said she was dismayed to see Jerramy Stevens in her courtroom again.

Doyle then backed her words with stern action yesterday, sentencing the Seahawks tight end to five days in jail and 40 hours of community service for violating his probation from a hit-and-run incident two years ago when Stevens was a student at the University of Washington.

"I really believed I wouldn't see you back here," Doyle told Stevens, who admitted violating his probation but said very little in the courtroom and declined to talk with reporters as he left the Municipal Court House.

"What I'm faced with now is trying to figure out how to deter you from doing this again," Doyle said, "because I thought the last time around, I'd really hit the nail on the head. Now you're back here again."

Stevens was appearing before Doyle again because he pleaded guilty Tuesday to reckless driving in Kirkland Municipal Court, after prosecutors agreed to drop a drunk driving charge stemming from an incident in On April 3, Stevens rolled his car through a stop sign and police found two open bottles of champagne on the floor of his vehicle.

In handing down the sentence, Doyle took into account the reckless driving charge, as well as Stevens' six other moving violations since July, and the original offense that led to the probation -- when Stevens rammed his truck into a nursing home in 2001.

"I am very sorry for violating my probation," Stevens told Doyle. "I have taken steps to make sure nothing like this will ever happen again."

 

[bbgun]

I'm assuming we can use the word "turd" to describe players but not each other. This guy is a turd.

 

[big dog cowboy]

Possession of marijuana -- well, I'd imagine many folks on the board are breaking that law right now.

Not guilty.

 

[The Realist]

Jerramy Stevens charged with hitting a man with a baseball bat and breaking his jaw, June 1998


"They were calling me 'Louisville Slugger' last year," he said.

Stevens can laugh now, but it wasn't so funny when he sat in ThurstonCounty Correctional Facility the summer before he entered the UW because he tested positive for marijuana while awaiting a court date to face assault charges. Stevens spent three weeks in jail

Stevens was charged with two counts of assault in a June 1998 fight at a park in suburban Olympia. He and a friend initially were accused of hitting a man with a baseball bat and kicking him in the face, breaking his jaw. Stevens was allowed to attend football training camp only after a judge signed an order releasing him from house arrest. Stevens eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault for kicking the man. Prosecutors determined he had not acted as an accomplice of his friend, who was convicted of a more serious charge in the bat assault.



Jerramy Stevens charged with drugging and raping a 19-year-old girl, June 2000



Due to lack of evidence, Jerramy Stevens was charged with sexual assault, King County prosecutors announced.

"The investigation in this case was very thorough, and the facts are as well-developed as they could be. The facts do not, however, provide sufficient evidence to meet the statutory elements of rape in any degree," said King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng in a prepared statement.

According to police reports obtained last July, the alleged victim woke up the next morning, wearing nothing but a T-shirt and her bra, which were pushed down around her waist. The fleece jacket Stevens was wearing the night before was in her room, she told detectives.

She had been drinking and remembered having two drinks at the party, one of which was brought to her pre-opened.

Prosecutors said that because the alleged victim had been drinking, she could not remember "substantial portions" of the evening on June 3, including the events leading up to and specific details about the alleged assault, said Dan Donohoe, spokesman for the King County Prosecutor's office.

Under those circumstances prosecutors must prove that the victim was physically helpless or mentally incapable of consenting to sex, Donohoe said.

REMEMBER!

Across the country, collecting scientific evidence that women who were raped had been slipped these drugs has proven extraordinarily difficult.

The drugs move through the body quickly. Standard screenings in hospitals are unlikely to pick up these particular drugs. And because the drugs can make the victim black out, it often takes awhile for women to piece together what happened, delaying necessary tests.




Jerramy Stevens charged in hit-and-run, May 2001

Richard Stephens identified UW football player Jerramy Stevens as the driver of a truck that crashed into the wall below his window at a retirement home on 15th Avenue Northeast.

Richard Stephens, a 72-year-old Gardens resident who lives directly above the woman's apartment, said he called 911 while watching the driver scurrying to flee.
"I thought he was injured at first, then I thought he was drunk because he fell down a couple of times," Stephens said.

Shortly before 1 a.m., Stevens, 21, drove the red truck over shrubs and landscaping rocks, then rammed a side wall at Merrill Gardens at Northgate, 11501 15th Ave. N.E, according to a police report.

The truck ripped a hole in the wall and shattered a window in a bedroom where a 92-year-old woman was sleeping, managers said. The impact knocked a dresser onto the woman's bed, but she escaped injury.

A witness told police Stevens fell twice trying to free the pickup, eventually using books for leverage under its tires.



Jerramy Stevens DUI, sentenced to five days in jail and 40 hours of community service, June 2003


Judge Theresa Doyle said she was dismayed to see Jerramy Stevens in her courtroom again.

Doyle then backed her words with stern action yesterday, sentencing the Seahawks tight end to five days in jail and 40 hours of community service for violating his probation from a hit-and-run incident two years ago when Stevens was a student at the University of Washington.

"I really believed I wouldn't see you back here," Doyle told Stevens, who admitted violating his probation but said very little in the courtroom and declined to talk with reporters as he left the Municipal Court House.

"What I'm faced with now is trying to figure out how to deter you from doing this again," Doyle said, "because I thought the last time around, I'd really hit the nail on the head. Now you're back here again."

Stevens was appearing before Doyle again because he pleaded guilty Tuesday to reckless driving in Kirkland Municipal Court, after prosecutors agreed to drop a drunk driving charge stemming from an incident in On April 3, Stevens rolled his car through a stop sign and police found two open bottles of champagne on the floor of his vehicle.

In handing down the sentence, Doyle took into account the reckless driving charge, as well as Stevens' six other moving violations since July, and the original offense that led to the probation -- when Stevens rammed his truck into a nursing home in 2001.

"I am very sorry for violating my probation," Stevens told Doyle. "I have taken steps to make sure nothing like this will ever happen again."

Koren Robinson/Jeremy Stevens

Exactly why to stay away from kids with character red flags in college.

 

[MONT17]

who is Jeremy Stevens?