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There's nothing like the feeling of punching a pregnant woman in the face.
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Real classy. Way to go Lionel.
TAMPA, Fla. -- Buccaneers running back Lionel Gates was arrested and charged with hitting a pregnant woman in the face and pushing her into a wall during an argument.
The 25-year-old player was being held Friday with no bond, jail records said.
Gates kicked in the front door of Peggie Lavender's apartment Thursday night, destroyed two televisions and two doors, put a hole in the bedroom wall and assaulted her, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report said. He was arrested later at his apartment in the same complex.
Gates was charged with burglary of a dwelling, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman and criminal mischief. A call to his lawyer, Ken Sarnoff, was not immediately returned. The team had no immediate comment.
"Charges such as those facing Lionel Gates are taken seriously by the Buccaneers organization," the team said in a statement Friday. "We plan to meet with Lionel as soon as possible after which we will deal with this matter appropriately."
Gates was signed by Tampa Bay in September after being released by Buffalo. He played in college at Louisville and was drafted by the Bills in 2005.
TAMPA, Fla. -- Buccaneers running back Lionel Gates was arrested and charged with hitting a pregnant woman in the face and pushing her into a wall during an argument.
The 25-year-old player was being held Friday with no bond, jail records said.
Gates kicked in the front door of Peggie Lavender's apartment Thursday night, destroyed two televisions and two doors, put a hole in the bedroom wall and assaulted her, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report said. He was arrested later at his apartment in the same complex.
Gates was charged with burglary of a dwelling, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman and criminal mischief. A call to his lawyer, Ken Sarnoff, was not immediately returned. The team had no immediate comment.
"Charges such as those facing Lionel Gates are taken seriously by the Buccaneers organization," the team said in a statement Friday. "We plan to meet with Lionel as soon as possible after which we will deal with this matter appropriately."
Gates was signed by Tampa Bay in September after being released by Buffalo. He played in college at Louisville and was drafted by the Bills in 2005.
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Guess they condone this type of behavior.
Shame on them.
<< <i>No word from the Bucs?
Guess they condone this type of behavior.
Shame on them.
They drafted Warren Sapp. They got lucky on that but the odds are you sign POS like this and it doesn't pay off - not in today's NFL.
This kind of stuff just keeps coming up in the NFL and other sports as well.
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<< <i>What did Warren Sapp do? I must have forgotten that one ... >>
I forget exactly, in college something to do with drugs maybe, I don't feel like Googling it, too long ago anyway, but I do remember he got picked much lower in that draft than he normally would have. And he turned out to be a punk anyway, with threatening that assistant head coach and such. Yes, an excellent player, possibly a Hall of Famer, but a punk nevertheless. Most punks in the NFL have very short careers if they have any career at all.
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