Ya, this bozo should be in jail who cares if he can run with a football. First he hits a woman and leaves her for dead, then doesn’t report it, then hides from the cops and works out a plea deal all before showing up for court. If that were you or I we would have been locked up in the county jail. But NO, this rich kid football player gets a slap on the pinky and is let go. Sports have no roll models anymore, they all suck IMHO.
Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch was arrested in Southern California on a weapons charge, police said Sunday.
Police said Lynch was arrested Wednesday night after officers approached him and two other men sitting in a 2006 Mercedes-Benz in this Los Angeles suburb and found a loaded firearm.
Lynch was arrested after officers determined the gun belonged to him. He was released that night on $35,000 bail.
Culver City police did not immediately return a phone message seeking information about why officers approached Lynch and his companions.
Lynch's lawyer, M. Gerald Schwartzbach, said his client was not involved in a traffic incident. Schwartzbach said the player was in California to visit friends.
A Bills spokesman had no comment.
The 22-year-old Lynch was the Bills' first-round draft pick out of California in 2007. He played in his first Pro Bowl earlier this month after being added to the team in place of injured Tennessee running back Chris Johnson.
Lynch's arrest marked the second time in less than a year that he has been in trouble with the law.
via The Associated Press: Bills’ RB Lynch arrested on gun charge.
“If that were you or I we would have been locked up in the county jail.”
The above sentence isn’t true. Most hit and run first time offenders in this area aren’t locked up in jail if they manage to flee the scene and if the victim doesn’t die. Whether or not that should be the case is a different matter. This state is very weak about punishment. But it’s not true to say if you or I hit someone and cowardly drove away as Lynch did that we’d be locked up in jail. We’d be pinky slapped too. Everyone is. A person has to work very hard to get into one of our jails around here.
A similar wrong thing many people said during the previous Lynch case was that police would have “brought him in for questioning” if he was an average person. That’s true only on TV shows.
I think Lynch is horrible. But the soft treatment he received from the D.A. and judge was the same as you or I would get in this state as long as we followed advice of a competent lawyer.
Here’s an example from a few weeks ago of a man in the town of Holland (likely not a sports figure or celebrity if he lives there) stonewalling police about a hit and run that injured two people.
This person refuses to cooperate with police. This person is not locked up in county jail.
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/557501.html
“Updated: 01/23/09 08:00 AM
Police identify hit-and-run vehicle, now seek driver
By Gene Warner NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Buffalo police have identified the hit-and-run car that struck and seriously injured two teenagers Jan. 9 — leaving one with a broken leg and the other with a concussion — but they still need the public’s help in finding the driver.
With the help of a witness who chased the vehicle from the scene and jotted down the license plate number, Buffalo police found the name of the man who owns the red 2001 four-door Hyundai Sonata.
But the owner contends that a relative of his, an Amherst resident, has been driving the car, according to police, and he wouldn’t give them the relative’s name or address.
…The witness followed the car and called 911 with the description and license plate. The 911 dispatcher advised the witness to back off and return to the scene, to make sure that the girls were OK.
Kasprzak checked two city surveillance cameras, at Fillmore and Main Street and at Main and Amherst Street.
“They verified that there was a car that fit that description,” Kasprzak said.
Kasprzak, armed with the owner’s name and address, drove to the Town of Holland and later talked with the owner, who would provide no more information.
That clearly left Kasprzak miffed. “If we’re going to be stonewalled on this, we’ll do what we have to do,” he said.
Police would not release the owner’s name.”