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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
NBA legend busted for drunk driving
It didn’t happen in Dayton, but since I love Sir Charles, I had to mention this:
Former NBA star and Hall of Fame forward Charles Barkley was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving by Arizona police early Wednesday morning, Dec. 31, in his 2005 Infiniti.
Sir CharlesBarkley, 45, evidently blew through a stop sign and then failed a field sobriety test given by a Gilbert police officer. Blood was also drawn to determine his blood-alcohol content, according to reports.
He was issued a citation and released, avoiding a trip to jail somehow. Barkley, now a commentator for TNT’s NBA programs, has several prior arrests including aggravated battery in 1997 and for assault in 1991.
And this past year he was sued by a Las Vegas casino for not paying a large gambling debt. He then declared he was done gambling on TNT and then a short-time later played in a poker tournament “for charity.”
I still love him, though. I play poker “for charity” all the time, as well.
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DAYTON - A 27-year-old man is in jail after narcotics detectives fished crack cocaine out of sewage pipe inside a house they believe is used to sell drugs.
Jajuan Faulkner, 27Police knocked on the front door of 213 Pierce St. at about 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 29, and noticed Jajuan Faulkner walk into the dining room and grab a piece of crack off a dining room table, according to a police report.
Faulkner then made his way toward the door, but suddenly stopped just two steps from it, the report stated. He then turned around, ran upstairs and tried to flush the crack, along with items from a digital scale, down the toilet, the report stated.
As he was doing that a woman came to the door and asked detectives why they were there, the report stated. Once inside, detectives noticed a piece of crack on the dining room table.
Upstairs they found the bathroom drain clogged and batteries floating in the toilet, the report stated.
One of the detectives then went to the basement, unscrewed a portion of the PVC sewage pipe and used a coat hanger to fish out the crack that Faulkner flushed, the report stated.
Police also found a 9mm handgun, a digital scale and marijuana in the house.
While handcuffed inside a police cruiser Faulkner admitted he flushed the crack earlier, the report stated.
The woman told detectives that Faulkner was selling drugs to “pay for his brother’s funeral,” the report stated.
Faulkner is in jail on felony charges of drug possession, tampering with evidence, receiving stolen property, having weapons while under disability and possession of criminal tools.
A background check found he has numerous felony convictions including drug trafficking in 1999 and July of 2008 and for burglary in 2002.
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