Former heavyweight champion pleads guilty to charges stemming from a traffic stop last year as he was leaving an Arizona nightclub.
Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson pleaded guilty Monday in Mesa, Ariz., to charges of drug possession and driving under the influence stemming from a traffic stop last year as he was leaving a nightclub.
Tyson quietly acknowledged to a judge that he had cocaine and was impaired when he was stopped for driving erratically in Scottsdale on Dec. 29.
He pleaded guilty to one felony count of cocaine possession and a misdemeanor DUI count and faces up to four years and three months in prison when sentenced Nov. 19.
A felony charge of possession of drug paraphernalia and a second misdemeanor DUI charge were dropped.
Tyson's lawyer, David Chesnoff, said his client has been clean and sober for eight months.
"It's obvious this was a crime he was committing against himself," Chesnoff said.
The prosecutor in the county where Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has admitted to bankrolling a dogfighting operation plans to present "a host of bills of indictment" regarding the case to a grand jury today at Richmond, Va.
Vick and three co-defendants have already pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in the case, and all are awaiting sentencing in federal court before the end of the year.
The local charges, and a conviction, could spell an end to any hope he has of resuming his NFL career after serving a likely federal prison term.
An animal cruelty charge in Virginia is punishable by up to five years in prison, and Vick admitted in his written plea to helping kill six to eight pit bulls days before the first raid.
That alone could expose Vick to as much as 40 years in prison.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Dwight Sean Jones, a former pro football player who manages investments for athletes, with violating securities laws by refusing to allow SEC examiners to inspect his business records.
Jones was an NFL defensive end who played for the Los Angeles Raiders, the Houston Oilers and the Green Bay Packers in the 1980s and 1990s.News In And Around Jena
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