It was said that he was to make about 75k per deal. He would eventually do 30 months in federal prison for his 5-week reign as a drug runner. All in all, Nate was caught with 388 pounds of weed in a 5-week period. This time, he had 175 pounds of marijuana on him. Years of Hurd's life will depend on how he, and his lawyers, choose to approach the case. December 12, 2001, Newton was stopped in Texas and was arrested. Newton served two years and eight months. Morris, Henry, and Lewis all took plea deals, as did Nate Newton, who was arrested with 175 pounds of marijuana just six weeks after posting bail… after first being arrested with 213 pounds of marijuana in his car. But the likelihood that he'll serve that, if his predecessors are any guide, seems low. Hurd faces a substantial amount of time in prison in 2001, according to the Kennedy Commission, the average drug trafficking sentence was a bit over six years. Jamal Lewis: Four months in prison for brokering a deal to acquire acquire five kilos.Ĭompare that to Johnny Jolly, who received six years in prison (though he could be paroled earlier) for possession of 200 grams of codeine-a lot of codeine, several months worth for a serious addict, which Jolly was, but with no charges on distribution. Travis Henry: Three years in prison, $4 million fine for trafficking 15 pounds of cocaine (six kilos) the fine was waived, as Henry had no money to pay it.
He was sentenced to ten years in prison, and served less than three. What's interesting about Pompei's roundup is the distribution of sentences.īam Morris: Convicted twice of drug offenses, the first for four kilos of marijuana and a gram of cocaine (resulting in a fine, community service, and probation), the second for attempting to distribute 100 pounds of marijuana. Unlike other athletes who have drawn headlines for relatively minor drug offenses, Hurd's case is striking in that the charges against him portray him as what cops would consider a major player in the drug world.Īs part of the Trib's package, Dan Pompei rounded up some of those NFL drug offenses, from former Bear Bam Morris to Packer Johnny Jolly. (Even at wholesale prices, that's considerably more than Hurd makes playing for the Bears.) Among the more notable disclosures in the criminal complaint is that not only was Hurd arrested for allegedly attempting to buy four kilos of cocaine, it's said that Hurd disclosed he and a co-conspirator were already distributing that much per week, about $100,000 worth. These are truly The Dumbest Crimes in Sports History.Today's big news is Sam Hurd's drug bust- he's facing up to 40 years and a $5 million fine. So on this list, you'll find a guy who accidentally shot himself in the leg and then went to prison for two years for doing it (you know who we're talking about, right?), a guy who got caught not once but twice for impersonating a police officer with an honorary badge, and a guy who thought it would be a good idea to take a dump in the closet of a college dorm room. In an effort to trim it down, we had to be selective and only include the dumbest of the dumb sports criminals. Because truthfully, this list could have had hundreds, if not thousands, of athletes on it. So when we sat down to create a list of the dumbest crimes ever committed by athletes, it turned out to be a challenge. Officers attended and a man and a woman were detained and searched. From drug busts to domestic violence incidents, it seems like a different athlete is getting taken to jail every time we turn around. Police undertook a stop search of a vehicle, believed to be linked to drugs activity, in Newton Abbot at around 12.50pm today. It's become increasingly rare for a day to go by without an athlete getting arrested.