Marshawn Lynch arrested on weapons charge
February 16
Buffalo News
"Marshawn Lynch is in trouble with the law again, and this time it could really cost him.
Just three days after playing in the Pro Bowl, the Buffalo Bills running back was arrested last Wednesday in California on felony gun charges.
According to a report from the Culver City Police Department on Sunday, police officers were patrolling the Fox Hills area of Culver City when they approached Lynch and two other men seated in a 2006 Mercedes-Benz.
"A subsequent field investigation led to the discovery of a loaded firearm," the report said. "The officers determined the gun belonged to Lynch and he was arrested for possession of a concealed firearm."
Lynch was booked at 7:12 p.m. and released about an hour and a half later on a $35,000 bond.
The case is now in the hands of the Culver City District Attorney's office.
It is not known why officers approached the car or whether Lynch is licensed to carry firearms.
"We can confirm that Marshawn was arrested in California and has retained an attorney," Bills Vice President of Communications Scott Berchtold said in a statement Sunday. "We are in the process of trying to gather the facts and will not offer a comment while that process is ongoing."
This is the second brush with the law in less than a year for Lynch, who was involved in a late-night hit-and-run incident in downtown Buffalo on May 31 when his Porsche Cayenne SUV struck a Toronto woman on Chippewa Street.
The woman was treated and released from the hospital later that day after suffering a bruised hip and cut to her thigh that required seven stitches."
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