Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is now dealing with a felony cost along with three beforehand introduced misdemeanors in reference to a weekend altercation in Indianapolis that led to his stabbing, officers in Marion County, Ind., introduced Monday.
Prosecutor Ryan Mears stated Sanchez, a Fox Sports activities analyst, has been charged with felony battery involving severe bodily harm, which, if convicted, may result in a jail sentence of 1 to 6 years.
The incident began when Sanchez, 38, and a 69-year-old truck driver had a disagreement over a parking house.
“You’ve the allegations of a 38-year-old man turning into concerned in an altercation with a 69-year-old man who sustained important, very extreme accidents on account of that altercation,” Mears stated. ” … We are actually speaking about individuals combating over a parking house and/or a dispute about the place individuals are parking, and it resulted in somebody simply extremely important accidents.”
Sanchez was stabbed within the chest within the Saturday morning incident and brought to a hospital, initially listed in crucial situation earlier than being upgraded to secure. He was positioned below arrest within the hospital, charged with misdemeanor counts of battery with harm, illegal entry of a motorized vehicle and public intoxication.
After his launch from the hospital, he was booked in jail and posted a $300 bond.
The truck driver has instructed authorities he stabbed Sanchez in self-defense.
Sanchez was in Indianapolis to work on the decision of the sport between the Indianapolis Colts and Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. He was changed on the published by one other Fox analyst and former NFL quarterback, Brady Quinn.
Mears stated the improved prices had been the results of extra police investigations, which proceed. Surveillance tape from a close-by lodge was a part of the assessment of proof that led to the felony cost.
Extra prices may observe, Mears stated.
“The place this incident occurred was an space of the town which was very nicely lined by surveillance footage,” the prosecutor stated. “There are a number of angles of surveillance footage which seize the occasions that occurred. And as well as, we had numerous civilian witnesses who got here ahead with supplied details about what occurred for us, although we want extra data, and (police are) engaged on that.
“And as soon as we obtain that extra data, extra prices is likely to be acceptable to file in a case like this.”
Sanchez was chosen by the New York Jets with the fifth general choose of the 2009 NFL Draft and guided the membership to 2 straight AFC Championship Sport appearances. He posted a 37-36 report and threw for 15,357 yards with 86 touchdowns and 89 interceptions with the Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys and the Washington franchise.
In faculty, Sanchez was a star for Southern California in 2008, when he handed for 3,207 yards, 34 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. The Trojans went 12-1 and completed the marketing campaign because the No. 3 group within the nation.
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