Posted on 05/24/2020 7:55:13 AM PDT by L.A.Justice
PALM DESERT, Calif. - Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf was arrested Friday afternoon in Palm Desert for suspicion of misdemeanor domestic battery, the latest in a series of legal troubles dating back to 2009.
Leaf, 44, was arrested about 2 p.m. on Grapevine Street in Palm Desert, according to the Riverside County Sheriff's Department. The exact location was not released.
Leaf was booked for domestic battery and held at the Larry D. Smith Correctional Facility on $5,000 bail, the sheriff's department reported. As of 9 p.m. Friday, the sheriff's department's records did not show that Leaf had been released.
Leaf is scheduled to appear in court at the Larson Justice Center in Indio at 8 a.m. on Wednesday.
Leaf's legal problems began with an indictment for burglary and controlled-substance charges in Texas in 2009. He pleaded guilty in 2010 to seven counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud and one count of delivery of a simulated controlled substance, all felonies, and was sentenced to 10 years of probation fined $20,000.
Leaf was sentenced on Sept. 9, 2014, to five years in a Texas prison for violating parole from a 2012 drug possession charge, but prosecutors allowed him to use his time served in Montana to fulfill the sentence. He was released from prison on Dec. 3, 2014.
Leaf was the second selection in the 1998 NFL draft behind Peyton Manning. The NFL Network documentary series, "NFL Top 10," ranked him as the No. 1 draft bust of all time.
Leaf played for the San Diego Chargers in the 1998 and 2000 seasons, missing the 1999 season because of a shoulder injury.
Leaf was released by the Chargers following the 2000 season. He spent the 2001 preseason with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers but was released before the start of the season.
Leaf played four games with the Dallas Cowboys in 2001, starting three, all losses, and was released following the season, ending his playing career.
Leaf joined ESPN as a college football analyst in 2019 after being a studio and game analyst for the Pac-12 Network.
I thought he turned his life around... He does have a son with a former college volleyball player...
An NFL thug felon who spent more time in prison than in the NFL.
Send him back to prison.
Leaf stays ‘in trouble’. That is normal for him.
I don’t follow football, but even I recall hearing his name and the words arrested used in a sentence over and over for years. I think all the way back in the Clinton Administration.
I’ll bet part of it is genetic. There may be gamblers, drug addicts or others with addictive personalities in his family.
I don’t say that just to criticize, because it runs in my family too on my dad’s side. Most of us have learned about self control. “Don’t be like your Uncle X”.
He slugged the maid?
To think the big debate was whether the #1 overall pick should have been this guy over Peyton Manning. SMH.
Nope, Tony Mandarich was the biggest bust in NFL history. Damn Packers could have had Barry Sanders.
I would rate them..
1. Johnny Manziel
2. Ryan Leaf
3. Tony Mandarich
4. Brian Bosworth
5. Todd Marinovich*
Marinovich makes the list because he WAS a bust. He also gets an asterisk because his dad so totally screwed him up Todd had no idea who he was or what it was like to be a normal human being.
From what I read this guy was treated with extreme prejudice.......of the beneficial kind, nothing but light taps on the wrist and all because of race and status, I wonder what a plain vanilla no status White or Black from streets would have received as punishment for the same crimes?
That boy is an absolute mess.
So in other words he’s just a criminal.
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