1 post
  • 1 / 1
 by BobCarl
5 years 8 months ago
 Total posts:   4283  
 Joined:  Mar 08 2017
United States of America   LA Coliseum
Superstar

yes that's right, China sentenced the "former" player

China Sentences Former Ball State Linebacker Wendell Brown To 4 Years

Former Ball State football player Wendell Brown has been sentenced in China to four years in prison on assault charges stemming from a 2016 bar fight in Chongqing.

Brown, 30, is a former linebacker for the Muncie, Indiana college, who later played for the Canadian Football League's Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Austria's Swarco Raiders. He was in China helping coach the Chongqing Dockers at the time of the altercation that landed him in jail.

Michigan Public Radio reports the Detroit native "allegedly punched a Chinese man after the man, who was drunk, threw a glass bottle at him at a bar ..."

The American Football International Review adds that "according to witnesses, [Brown] was provoked by a group of locals who were upset that [he] would not party with them," adding that after the bottle was thrown, "Brown ... retaliated out of self-defense."

Brown was tried in July 2017, but it has taken a year for the verdict to be announced.


the rest of the story here ... https://www.npr.org/2018/06/28/62414633 ... t=20180628

  • 1 / 1
1 post Mar 28 2024