The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs are anticipated to launch defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs, who has been arrested a number of instances in Alabama this offseason, sources instructed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday.
Buggs was booked on a home violence/housebreaking cost in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, on June 16. That got here after he was charged Might 30 with two misdemeanor counts of second-degree animal cruelty in Tuscaloosa. Two canine allegedly below his care — a pit bull and a rottweiler combine — have been discovered to be uncared for and severely malnourished. The pit bull needed to be euthanized.
Buggs’ bail on the animal cruelty expenses was revoked after his home violence arrest. He’s at the moment within the Tuscaloosa County Jail after being booked final Monday.
Buggs’ agent, Trey Robinson, has alleged that his shopper is a sufferer of an ongoing “subversive marketing campaign” to drive the closure of the hookah lounge he owns in Tuscaloosa.
Buggs, 27, performed two seasons for the College of Alabama and was chosen by the Pittsburgh Steelers within the sixth spherical of the 2019 draft. He performed three seasons for the Steelers and two for the Detroit Lions earlier than becoming a member of the Chiefs in January as a apply squad participant. The Chiefs re-signed Buggs to a futures contract in February.
It has been an offseason of authorized troubles for a number of Chiefs gamers this offseason. Huge receiver Rashee Rice was arrested in Dallas in March for his involvement in a six-car crash that injured at the very least seven folks. Police say Rice was driving 119 mph on a freeway earlier than inflicting the crash. Rice is dealing with one rely of aggravated assault, one rely of collision involving critical bodily damage and 6 counts of collision involving damage.
Rice can also be a suspect in an alleged assault that injured a person in a Dallas nightclub. The person doesn’t need police to file expenses, nevertheless. That investigation stays ongoing, Dallas police mentioned final month.
Offensive linemen Wanya Morris and Chukwuebuka Godrick, in the meantime, have been arrested final month in Johnson County, Kansas, on misdemeanor possession of marijuana expenses.