Replace: Police declare that Damon Arnette hid a pill stuffed with meth inside his sock on the evening of his arrest.
Cops stopped the previous first-round choose for driving 60 mph in a forty five mph zone, in response to courtroom docs obtained by TMZ Sports activities.
Arnette informed police that he had “substance abuse issues in the past,” and the ex-Raider was performing “unusually nervous and talkative,” resulting in a K9 being summoned to the scene, per the docs.
A loaded black Glock 20 10mm pistol was discovered below the passenger seat, in response to police. A white and orange capsule with no markings — which Arnette claimed was Adderall — was discovered inside his left sock, police stated, including that the capsule had been tampered with as if it’d been “manually opened.”
The cops stated they opened the capsule, discovered a “white, crystal-like substance,” and examined it on-scene, and discovered it was meth.
Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette was arrested for the third time in three years — this time in Richardson, Texas.
He was charged with possession of lower than a gram of meth in addition to illegal carrying of a firearm, according to NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport. This arrest, which occurred at 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 6, was beforehand unreported, in response to Rapoport.
“Our client, at the time of the stop, was unable to provide law enforcement with his prescription for a lawful medication,” Jason Lampert of Salzano, Ettinger, Lampert & Wilson, LLP and Thomas Wynne of Milner Wynne stated in a statement to NFL media. “The arrest was predicated on Mr. Arnette being unable to prove the medication was prescribed, had he been able to do so at the time of the stop there would have been no arrest for either the controlled substance of the firearms.
“Our offices are working with the local law enforcement to rectify this matter before any charges are brought by the District Attorney’s office.”
The Raiders drafted Arnette with the nineteenth general choose of the 2020 NFL Draft, a choose they acquired as a part of the Khalil Mack commerce with Chicago. Arnette performed simply 11 video games over two years with Las Vegas earlier than being lower early into the 2021 season. Arnette was launched shortly after reportedly threatening to kill somebody over Instagram DMs. The cornerback filmed a video of himself pointing three totally different weapons on the digital camera repeatedly saying “I will kill you,” to the digital camera.
Arnette frolicked on the Miami Dolphins follow squad later that season, however his contract was allowed to run out. A number of days later, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs signed the cornerback to a futures/reserve contract. That was terminated after simply 9 days as a result of Arnette was arrested in Las Vegas on expenses of assault with a lethal weapon, carrying a hid weapon with no allow, and two counts of possession of managed substances. Arnette was also arrested in 2023 for possession of a managed substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving on a suspended license.
Arnette was taken seven choices after former Raiders receiver, Henry Ruggs III, who’s at the moment in jail for a lethal high-speed DUI crash.
