A former No. 2 general NFL draft choose was not too long ago present in possession of over $120,000 price of suspected narcotics, in response to police.
Gregory Keith Robinson, who was taken by the St. Louis Rams within the 2014 NFL draft, was arrested on February 7, in response to the Metropolis of Thibodaux Police Division in Louisiana.
The arrest on Monday comes after Robinson was jailed in Texas in 2020 by U.S. Border Patrol Brokers for marijuana possession, in response to The El Paso Instances.
On Monday, at round 12 a.m. native time, the Metropolis of Thibodaux Police Division officers carried out a visitors cease after a 2021 Black Cadillac Escalade violated a visitors legislation close to the 100 block of E. Bayou Highway.
"Officers made contact with the motive force recognized as Gregory Robinson," the Thibodaux Police Division stated in a press launch.
The Thibodaux Police Division stated that in the course of the visitors cease, a police Okay-9 was alerted by the scent of narcotics throughout the automobile, prompting officers to conduct an extra search.
"This search resulted within the findings of suspected cocaine, suspected crack cocaine, suspected oxycodone, suspected hydrocodone, suspected Xanax and suspected marijuana," the press launch stated.
Following the search of the automobile and the invention of the suspected narcotics, the Thibodaux Police Division's Narcotics Division and members of the Division's Fast Response Group obtained search warrants at a number of properties owned by Robinson "contained in the Metropolis Limits of Thibodaux."
In the course of the search of Robinson's properties, police found "suspected methamphetamine, further suspected cocaine and marijuana, in addition to packaging gear and a number of belongings."
Based on police, roughly $120,810 price of suspected narcotics had been seized from Robinson's automobile and properties. The seizure included over three kilos of suspected methamphetamine, almost 40 kilos of marijuana, 227 doses of suspected hydrocodone and 48 doses of alleged oxycodone. A number of different narcotics, equivalent to cocaine and alprazolam (Xanax) had been additionally seized.
Robinson was charged with two counts of possession with intent to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine; two counts of possession with intent to distribute marijuana; possession with intent to distribute Xanax; and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, in response to police.
"Mr. Robinson was booked into the Lafourche Parish Correctional Advanced, the place he stays on a $315,000.00 bond," police stated within the press launch.
This isn't the primary time Robinson has been arrested for possession of narcotics, as he confronted an analogous scenario in 2020 when he was stopped by Border Patrol brokers for possession of marijuana. Based on the El Paso Instances, Robinson allegedly possessed 157 kilos and was arrested whereas in Texas, whereas touring from California to Louisiana.
After being drafted quantity two general in 2014, Robinson went on to spend two seasons with the St. Louis Rams as an offensive deal with. Robinson then went on to play with the Detroit Lions and the Cleveland Browns, earlier than turning into an unrestricted free agent in 2019.
Newsweek reached out to the Thibodaux Police Division for additional remark however didn't obtain a response in time for publication.
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