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Pro football player Ty Law arrested after traffic stop
BY ELAINE DE VALLE
edevalle@herald.com
Veteran pro football player and two-time Super Bowl champ Ty Law got in trouble with, well, the law over the weekend in Miami Beach.
The cornerback for the New England Patriots -- whose full name is Tajuan Edward Law -- was arrested early Saturday after he allegedly ran from police during a traffic stop.
Charged with failure to obey a lawful command of a police officer and resisting arrest without violence, Law posted a $1
500 bond nearly two hours after he was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail about 4:30 a.m. Saturday.
Law -- who has a home in Plantation as well as Pennsylvania -- was stopped just before 1 a.m. S
atu
day morning by an officer who said Law was
driving his Rolls Royce outside the designated lane.
The uniformed officer stepped in the roadway and asked Law, 30, to pull over near the corner of Collins Avenue and EspaÃԚ±ola Way. Law complied, but then he pulled out again, heading south, the report says.
Officers stopped Law again about a block away, where they asked him to get out of the car.
''For officer safety, I asked the defendant to place his hands behind his back,'' wrote officer Michael Iadaresta. ``At that point, the defendant became upset and pulled away from our grasp.
``I ordered the defendant to stop. Defendant then ran off southbound on Collins.''
Iadaresta, 40, and another officer, Kerry Humphry, 48, chased after Law -- '
9;It was like a light jog,'' Hernandez said -- and caught up to him at the corner of the block. Then Law told Humphry not to touch him ''because he is a professional athlete,'
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he report s
tates.
Reached at his Broward home Monday, Law -- on the team that
won the Super Bowl this year and in 2002 -- referred a Herald reporter to his agent, Carl Poston, of Professional Sports Planning in Houston. Poston did not return two calls Monday morning.
Miami Beach Police spokesman Bobbie Hernandez said the entire incident could have easily been avoided.
''Mr. Law's actions turned it from a minor traffic infraction to a misdeameanor arrest,'' Hernandez said.
''He had an opportunity to pull over, receive a citation and he would have been on his way. That situation turned very ugly, very quickly by Mr. Law's behavior,'' he added. ``It's unfortunate that he tried to run away and that he has the audacity to claim that beca
use he's a professional athlete he should be treated differently from everyone else.''
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/8467823.htm
Pro football player Ty Law arrested after traffic stop
BY ELAINE DE VALLE
edevalle@herald.com
Veteran pro football player and two-time Super Bowl champ Ty Law got in trouble with, well, the law over the weekend in Miami Beach.
The cornerback for the New England Patriots -- whose full name is Tajuan Edward Law -- was arrested early Saturday after he allegedly ran from police during a traffic stop.
Charged with failure to obey a lawful command of a police officer and resisting arrest without violence, Law posted a $1
500 bond nearly two hours after he was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail about 4:30 a.m. Saturday.
Law -- who has a home in Plantation as well as Pennsylvania -- was stopped just before 1 a.m. S
atu
day morning by an officer who said Law was
driving his Rolls Royce outside the designated lane.
The uniformed officer stepped in the roadway and asked Law, 30, to pull over near the corner of Collins Avenue and EspaÃԚ±ola Way. Law complied, but then he pulled out again, heading south, the report says.
Officers stopped Law again about a block away, where they asked him to get out of the car.
''For officer safety, I asked the defendant to place his hands behind his back,'' wrote officer Michael Iadaresta. ``At that point, the defendant became upset and pulled away from our grasp.
``I ordered the defendant to stop. Defendant then ran off southbound on Collins.''
Iadaresta, 40, and another officer, Kerry Humphry, 48, chased after Law -- '
9;It was like a light jog,'' Hernandez said -- and caught up to him at the corner of the block. Then Law told Humphry not to touch him ''because he is a professional athlete,'
;
9; t
he report s
tates.
Reached at his Broward home Monday, Law -- on the team that
won the Super Bowl this year and in 2002 -- referred a Herald reporter to his agent, Carl Poston, of Professional Sports Planning in Houston. Poston did not return two calls Monday morning.
Miami Beach Police spokesman Bobbie Hernandez said the entire incident could have easily been avoided.
''Mr. Law's actions turned it from a minor traffic infraction to a misdeameanor arrest,'' Hernandez said.
''He had an opportunity to pull over, receive a citation and he would have been on his way. That situation turned very ugly, very quickly by Mr. Law's behavior,'' he added. ``It's unfortunate that he tried to run away and that he has the audacity to claim that beca
use he's a professional athlete he should be treated differently from everyone else.''
