Detroit Lions linebacker Trevor Bates has been indicted on prices he slugged an NYPD sergeant, court docket officers reported on Tuesday.
The hulking 25-year-old allegedly went by means of the roof on Jan. 26 right after he was collared in a dispute in excess of a $32 taxi fare to La Guardia Airport. The 6-foot-2, 247-pound gridder missing it at the 115th Precinct station dwelling as Sgt. James O’Brien tried to consider his fingerprints.
“I want to punch the eyeglasses off of that person,” he allegedly raged, court docket paperwork reported.
Bates is accused of punching O’Brien in the encounter, chopping him earlier mentioned the eye and supplying him a concussion. The athlete was taken down by multiple cops and even shot with a stun gun. He was taken to Bellevue Medical center for a psychiatric evaluation and expended quite a few times in the medical center prior to he was released on bond.
Bates had been criminally charged with next- and third-degree assault, theft of services and other prices.
The indictment prices will be designed community at his following court docket day on March 8.
Bates’ lawyer, Eric Breslin, did not return messages.
Neither he nor Bates appeared in Queens Prison Court docket on Tuesday.
Bates, who played ball for the University of Maine, was a seventh-spherical draft decide by the Colts in 2016. In 2017, he was on the observe squads of the Patriots and the Giants.
