Posted on 01/14/2010 2:08:44 PM PST by jpl
WASHINGTON -- Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas has been charged with a felony in connection with last month's locker room confrontation with a teammate.
Arenas was charged Thursday with one count of carrying a pistol without a license.
The charges were filed in D.C. Superior Court in an "information," a document that generally signals a plea deal.
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What about the other Wizard who was waving a loaded pistol around the locker room?
The police are looking for the gun, and haven’t yet found it.
I thought that the DC gun control laws had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. How can someone be charged under them?
Crittendon’s gun is probably at the bottom of the Potomac by now. He’s a punk, and would know not to leave it lying around.
Why do they need the gun? They have multiple witness statements. It’s not like some unknown person shot somebody, and the gun is the only evidence available to identify the shooter.
That’s my question too.
That’s my question too.
Carrying on your person in public is still illegal in the District. Plus, I think his guns weren't legally registered.
I don’t know the relevant law, so I don’t know. However, there is increased speculation that Critt is potentially in deep trouble. Also, the police have searched his home, but didn’t find the gun. My guess is that they will charge him, but want an airtight case.
ESPN’s Mike & Mike have defended him as just sort of a fun-loving guy — with the skinny Mike opining that “What they really need to do is go after the guns.” Yeah, I really hate it when those gosh darn guns pull themselves on people!
From what I've read, his home is in Virginia.
Yes, and it’s illegal to bring guns from Virginia into the District! The laws are very different.
I t always amazes me when I read about people in the East being charged for no other crime that possessing a gun.
Here in Oregon it’s “must-issue” and open carry is legal, yet in NYC you can’t even OWN a handgun.
Thank God I live in one of the Free States!
Ed
One report on our local TV said there were 4 guns involved.
He was smart, he got rid of his piece. While Gilbert instead announced to the world that yes, he brought 4 guns to work.
Yep, he’s pretty darn stupid for sure.
True. But one difference is that Gilbert brought his guns (which he owned for self protection, both a right and a necessity, given his stature) to the locker room because he didn’t want them around his young daughter (misguided, but he was trying to be responsible, in his own way). He never pointed them at anyone, threatened anyone with them, nor waved them around. In fact, there is no indication that he even held them (except to move them his locker to the chair when no-one was around).
While you are correct that he brought 4 guns to work, its not quite as evil as you make it out to be. In fact, the only rightful law that he appears to have broken involve the property rights of the Verizon Center.
And the reason he announced it to the world is that, (once again very misguided), he tried to protect his teammate because he realized his teammate had overreacted terribly to his joke, and was now in serious trouble.
I don’t think he’s ‘evil’ at all I’d have given him a 10 game suspension and that’s it. The way he handled it invited the hack commissioner and gun grabbing cops to throw the hammer at him. If it were me I’d have lost the guns and kept my mouth shut.
Self defense, Arenas drew first........
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