Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez is now going through a felony cost along with three beforehand introduced misdemeanors in reference to a weekend altercation in Indianapolis that led to his stabbing, officers in Marion County, Ind., introduced Monday.
Prosecutor Ryan Mears stated Sanchez, a Fox Sports activities analyst, has been charged with felony battery involving critical bodily harm, which, if convicted, might result in a jail sentence of 1 to 6 years.
The incident began when Sanchez, 38, and a 69-year-old truck driver had a disagreement over a parking area.
“You will have the allegations of a 38-year-old man changing into concerned in an altercation with a 69-year-old man who sustained important, very extreme accidents because of that altercation,” Mears stated. ” … We are actually speaking about folks preventing over a parking area and/or a dispute about the place persons are parking, and it resulted in somebody simply extremely important accidents.”
Sanchez was stabbed within the chest within the Saturday morning incident and brought to a hospital, initially listed in vital situation earlier than being upgraded to steady. He was positioned beneath arrest within the hospital, charged with misdemeanor counts of battery with harm, illegal entry of a motorized vehicle and public intoxication.
After his launch from the hospital, he was booked in jail and posted a $300 bond.
The truck driver has advised authorities he stabbed Sanchez in self-defense.
Sanchez was in Indianapolis to work on the decision of the sport between the Indianapolis Colts and Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. He was changed on the printed by one other Fox analyst and former NFL quarterback, Brady Quinn.
Mears stated the improved fees had been the results of further police investigations, which proceed. Surveillance tape from a close-by lodge was a part of the assessment of proof that led to the felony cost.
Extra fees might observe, Mears stated.
“The place this incident passed off was an space of town which was very properly coated by surveillance footage,” the prosecutor stated. “There are a number of angles of surveillance footage which seize the occasions that occurred. And as well as, we had a variety of civilian witnesses who got here ahead with offered details about what passed off for us, although we want further info, and (police are) engaged on that.
“And as soon as we obtain that further info, further fees is perhaps acceptable to file in a case like this.”
Sanchez was chosen by the New York Jets with the fifth total decide of the 2009 NFL Draft and guided the membership to 2 straight AFC Championship Recreation appearances. He posted a 37-36 document and threw for 15,357 yards with 86 touchdowns and 89 interceptions with the Jets, Philadelphia Eagles, Dallas Cowboys and the Washington franchise.
In faculty, Sanchez was a star for Southern California in 2008, when he handed for 3,207 yards, 34 touchdowns and 10 interceptions. The Trojans went 12-1 and completed the marketing campaign because the No. 3 group within the nation.
–Area Stage Media