Veteran NBA guard Iman Shumpert was arrested last Saturday at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, according to The Associated Press. Shumpert allegedly tried to bring six ounces of cannabis past security, leading to his arrest.
Shumpert also had a magazine with 14 rounds in his backpack, but no gun was found, the report states. The call came in around 3:40 pm local time and he was arrested for felony possession of marijuana.
Shumpert has played 10 NBA seasons, making stops with New York, Cleveland, Sacramento, Houston and Brooklyn. He didn’t play this season, but at 32 years old, he could make a return to the league one day.
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Oops I forgot the 6 ounces in my backpack. Wow.
Waste of tax payer dollars to arrest someone for a plant that’s safer than alcohol
Amazing/sad that it’s still a felony. Free country my azz!
He likely has a deal with a cannabis company and therfore they felt that getting pinched for almost a half pound would give him the smoking cred they need to build some kind of marketing campaign around him.
Flying High in the Skies.
What’s going on???! Shumpert,Herrell, and Griner too… As much as we all want Griner return home and not be used as political pawn, why why did she break Russian law?? Why has no respect for their law when they treated her as celebrity and paid her over $1M per? We all know evil Russia but doesnt matter which country you go to, you have to follow their laws just like we want foreigners to follow laws here in USA.
…and who the hell goes to Russia right now? If the US was in a proxy war with China, nobody would be playing hoops there right now either. Common sense people…use it or go to Russia for 9 years and get zero sympathy.
She had less than 1 gram of THC oil on her. Russian law states that possession of less than 6 grams of cannabis is an administrative offense, and not subject to incarceration. They escalated the charge to drug smuggling.The only reason Russia sentenced her to nine years was so they could use her as leverage.
Agreed that she is a political pawn, but seriously, why put yourself in that position?
It is so Texas to charge him for the weed but not for transporting weapons on the plane.
Well he didn’t have a weapon so there’s that