Two misdemeanor warrants have been filed in opposition to Kansas Metropolis Chiefs defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, on costs of cruelty to canines within the second diploma.
In keeping with courtroom paperwork, the Tuscaloosa Police Division acquired a report that two canines have been being left on the again porch of a house being rented by Buggs. Officers and animal management discovered a grey and white pit bull and a black rottweiler on a screened-in again porch with no entry to meals or water.
Each canines appeared malnourished and uncared for, and the residence seemed to be deserted. Witnesses informed police Buggs had lately moved from the home. Each canines have been seized, and the pit bull ultimately was euthanized.
Buggs’ agent, Trey Robinson, denied the fees and alleged his shopper is a sufferer of an ongoing “subversive marketing campaign” to drive the closure of the hookah lounge he owns in Tuscaloosa.
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“Beneath no circumstance does Mr. Buggs condone the mistreatment of any animal,” Robinson mentioned in an announcement. “The canines at problem didn’t belong to him and he was unaware they remained on the property in query.”
Robinson mentioned in his assertion that Buggs was arrested at his hookah lounge on misdemeanor costs “on two separate events previously two months, however every time no public file was made of those arrests.”
He mentioned town of Tuscaloosa “used the specter of pursuing and publicizing each the allegations filed right now and these arrests as leverage in opposition to Mr. Buggs by providing to drop and never pursue them in change for his voluntary give up of his enterprise license.”
Robinson mentioned Buggs “declined the Metropolis’s supply as he has severe issues in regards to the Metropolis’s and Police Division’s motivation for deciding to focus on his enterprise, which he plans to carry to gentle as a part of his protection of the allegations and costs filed in opposition to him and his popularity and enterprise.”
Buggs, 27, performed three seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers and two with the Detroit Lions earlier than becoming a member of the Chiefs in January as a apply squad participant. The Chiefs re-signed Buggs to a futures contract in February.
That is the most recent in a collection of authorized troubles involving Chiefs gamers this offseason. Broad receiver Rashee Rice was arrested in Dallas in March for his involvement in a six-car crash that injured at the very least seven folks. Police say Rice was driving 119 mph on a freeway earlier than inflicting the crash. Rice is dealing with one rely of aggravated assault, one rely of collision involving severe bodily damage and 6 counts of collision involving damage.
Rice can also be a suspect in an alleged assault that injured a person in a Dallas nightclub. The person doesn’t need police to file costs, nonetheless. That investigation stays ongoing, Dallas police mentioned earlier this month.
Offensive linemen Wanya Morris and Chukwuebuka Godrick, in the meantime, have been arrested lately in Johnson County, Kansas, on misdemeanor possession of marijuana costs.
