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Adam "Pacman" Jones might be suspended. Las Vegas SI.com Las Vegas prosecutors asked police to do more investigating before charges are filed against Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones in a strip-club fight that led to a triple shooting. "It isn't that we're missing things, they just wanted more detailed information," said Lt. George Castro, leader of the Las Vegas Police Department's violent crimes unit. "They said there might be more to this than what was recommended."
Since being drafted by the Titans in April 2005, Jones has been arrested five times and questioned by police in 10 episodes.
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Seattle Times Nashville, TN Every emotion Adam "Pacman" Jones has seems to bubble to the surface. The cornerback for the Tennessee Titans smiles and kids with a reporter during practice, laughs with teammates and celebrates touchdowns by jumping on the goal post and sliding down as if he is at a fire station. But consider what happened his rookie season, when teammates put up a sign outside the locker room that said, "PacMan Jones Wanted! For skipping out on club dues." Jones, who was getting $13.5 million in guaranteed money from the Titans, owed $500. Surrounded by cameras and reporters, the then-22-year-old started screaming and cursing, yelling at the equipment managers to get him a clean pair of socks. Jones' self-confidence and dazzling speed put him in the league and made him a millionaire. But his quick temper, poor judgment and an apparent disdain for authority have put his career at risk. Since being drafted in April 2005, he has been arrested five times and questioned by police in 10 incidents. Last week, Las Vegas police recommended he be charged with a felony and two misdemeanors for his role in a Feb. 19 strip-club fight that led to a triple shooting. Today, Jones and Cincinnati receiver Chris Henry, one of nine Bengals players arrested in less than a year, are scheduled to meet with league commissioner Roger Goodell, who has promised to hand down discipline within 10 days. Jones is not talking to reporters on the advice of his attorney. But Titans coach Jeff Fisher said he expects the league to punish Jones. "I had faith in him, but where I stand I really can't go into right now," Fisher said during the league's recent meetings in Arizona. "Pac on the field is an exceptional player. Off the field, he's got some things to work out." Jones' mother describes her son as tough and told a Nashville TV station she wants him to get rid of the bad influences in his life. "He's young, 23 years old. You've been 23," Deborah Jones said. "Lighten up on him." Jones' attorney, Manny Arora of Atlanta, said Jones is maturing, with a 1-year-old daughter to care for and a girlfriend about to graduate from college. Arora emphasized Jones hasn't been charged in the most recent incident in Las Vegas. Last week, Arora said Jones is prepared to fight any league punishment legally, especially if Jones were to receive a one-year suspension. In October 2005, Jones told a Tennessee high-school team: "Anything you can name, I have done it." Titans officials say they hope Goodell will make a decision on Jones before the draft starts April 28, and are planning for the possibility Jones won't be around. "It's a difficult position he's put the organization in," Fisher said.
Boston Herald Nashville, Tennessee Las Vegas prosecutors asked police to do more investigating before charges are filed against Tennessee Titans [team stats] cornerback Adam ”Pacman” Jones in a strip club fight that led to a triple shooting.
”It isn’t that we’re missing things, they just wanted more detailed information,” said Lt. George Castro, leader of the Las Vegas Police Department’s violent crimes unit. ”They said there might be more to this than what was recommended.”
Since being drafted by the Titans in April 2005, Jones has been arrested five times and questioned by police in 10 episodes.
He met Tuesday in New York with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, to discuss those cases. Goodell has said he will announce his decision on suspensions or other disciplinary action as early as in the next 10 days.
Las Vegas police have recommended a felony charge of coercion and misdemeanor charges of threat and battery against Jones in the Feb. 19 altercation at Minxx, a club several blocks west of the Las Vegas Strip.
The shooting left one man paralyzed. Authorities haven’t identified the gunman, but Castro has said the 23-year-old Jones was the ”inciter” of a fight that started inside in the club.
The attorney representing Jones, Manny Arora, was not in his Atlanta office Wednesday morning and did not immediately return a telephone message seeking comment.
Castro called it ”customary” for prosecutors to seek additional investigation in complex cases.
”It’s still actively being pursued,” said Castro, adding prosecutors did not set a deadline for the case to be submitted. ”This has not been placed on anyone’s back burner.”
Police have not re-interviewed Jones or two other people against whom investigators recommended charges be filed.
Castro said police recommended Robert Reid, 37, of Carson, Calif., be charged with felony coercion and misdemeanor battery charges, and Sadia Morrison, 24, of New York, with felony coercion. Castro described both as friends of Jones.
Morrison was arrested the morning of the shooting and charged with battery with a deadly weapon, a bottle.
If Jones is charged in the Vegas case, a Tennessee prosecutor has said it could renew a criminal case regarding an August bar incident in a Nashville suburb. Jones had avoided jail time on charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct with a plea agreement that required him to stay out of trouble until July.
The Titans are trying to decide whether to keep Jones, the sixth pick overall in 2005. The cornerback did not tell team officials about being arrested twice in Georgia in 2006 _ a potential violation of the personal conduct policy.
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