Replace: Police declare that Damon Arnette hid a capsule filled with meth inside his sock on the evening of his arrest.
Cops stopped the previous first-round choose for driving 60 mph in a forty five mph zone, in line with court docket docs obtained by TMZ Sports activities.
Arnette advised police that he had “substance abuse points up to now,” and the ex-Raider was performing “unusually nervous and talkative,” resulting in a K9 being summoned to the scene, per the docs.
A loaded black Glock 20 10mm pistol was discovered beneath the passenger seat, in line with police. A white and orange capsule with no markings — which Arnette claimed was Adderall — was discovered inside his left sock, police mentioned, including that the capsule had been tampered with as if it’d been “manually opened.”
The cops mentioned they opened the capsule, discovered a “white, crystal-like substance,” and examined it on-scene, and came upon it was meth.
Former Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette was arrested for the third time in three years — this time in Richardson, Texas.
He was charged with possession of lower than a gram of meth in addition to illegal carrying of a firearm, according to NFL Community’s Ian Rapoport. This arrest, which occurred at 3:30 a.m. on Jan. 6, was beforehand unreported, in line with Rapoport.
“Our consumer, on the time of the cease, was unable to supply legislation enforcement along with his prescription for a lawful treatment,” Jason Lampert of Salzano, Ettinger, Lampert & Wilson, LLP and Thomas Wynne of Milner Wynne mentioned in a statement to NFL media. “The arrest was predicated on Mr. Arnette being unable to show the treatment was prescribed, had he been ready to take action on the time of the cease there would have been no arrest for both the managed substance of the firearms.
“Our places of work are working with the native legislation enforcement to rectify this matter earlier than any fees are introduced by the District Lawyer’s workplace.”
The Raiders drafted Arnette with the nineteenth total choose of the 2020 NFL Draft, a choose they acquired as a part of the Khalil Mack commerce with Chicago. Arnette performed simply 11 video games over two years with Las Vegas earlier than being minimize early into the 2021 season. Arnette was launched shortly after reportedly threatening to kill somebody over Instagram DMs. The cornerback filmed a video of himself pointing three totally different weapons on the digital camera repeatedly saying “I’ll kill you,” to the digital camera.
Arnette frolicked on the Miami Dolphins observe squad later that season, however his contract was allowed to run out. A number of days later, the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs signed the cornerback to a futures/reserve contract. That was terminated after simply 9 days as a result of Arnette was arrested in Las Vegas on fees of assault with a lethal weapon, carrying a hid weapon with no allow, and two counts of possession of managed substances. Arnette was additionally arrested in 2023 for possession of a managed substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and driving on a suspended license.
Arnette was taken seven picks after former Raiders receiver, Henry Ruggs III, who’s at present in jail for a lethal high-speed DUI crash.