Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is now going through 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 mentioned 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 could have the allegations of a 38-year-old man changing into concerned in an altercation with a 69-year-old man who sustained important, very extreme accidents on account of that altercation,” Mears mentioned. ” … We are actually speaking about folks combating over a parking house and/or a dispute about the place persons 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 motorcar and public intoxication.
After his launch from the hospital, he was booked in jail and posted a $300 bond.
The truck driver has informed 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 mentioned the improved costs had been the results of extra police investigations, which proceed. Surveillance tape from a close-by resort was a part of the evaluation of proof that led to the felony cost.
Extra costs may comply with, Mears mentioned.
“The place this incident occurred was an space of town which was very nicely lined by surveillance footage,” the prosecutor mentioned. “There are a number of angles of surveillance footage which seize the occasions that occurred. And as well as, we had a lot of civilian witnesses who got here ahead with supplied details about what occurred for us, although we’d like extra data, and (police are) engaged on that.
“And as soon as we obtain that extra data, extra costs is perhaps applicable to file in a case like this.”
Sanchez was chosen by the New York Jets with the fifth general decide 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 school, 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 workforce within the nation.
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