Irvin Bought Cocaine After Raid, Report Says

Michael Irvin, the Dallas Cowboys star under indictment, bought cocaine before and after the charges stemming from a motel raid where drugs were seized, KXAS-TV reported Sunday night.

Irvin paid $100 for drugs two days before his April 1 felony indictment in connection with seizure of cocaine and marijuana at the Irving motel room, the Fort Worth station reported.

The report was accompanied by a videotape from a camera clandestinely placed in the back seat of a vehicle in which Irvin was riding.

Irvin’s security adviser and friend - identified only as “Dennis” - drove the All-Pro receiver to an Irving apartment complex where he bought what the associate described as about a half-ounce of cocaine from a woman.

“She definitely, she had some cola,” Irvin said, showing the associate a bag which “Dennis” described as containing cocaine.

Irvin’s attorney representing him in the trial due to begin June 24 denied the report.

“I didn’t see anything on that television report,” attorney Kevin Clancy said. “Just a lot of innuendo, muckraking and yellow journalism. But what of substance did we see? Nothing.”

The TV station did not immediately respond.

Dennis is a self-described right-hand man of Irvin with a background in law enforcement and security work who has known the player for several years. He had a hidden camera in his car that recorded the trips to buy drugs.

In the first trip, Dennis told KXAS-TV he and Irvin drove to a Valley Ranch area apartment complex and he watched the player make a drug purchase from a man who handed narcotics through a car window.

“He came out to the car, leaned inside, handed Mike the coke, he handed him a hundred bucks and that was it,” Dennis said. “We started talking. I asked, ‘Why are you doing this? You know, why are we doing this?’

“He says, ‘It’s the devil. It’s the devil and the women,”’ Dennis said, adding Irvin told him he could not stop the purchases.

The Cowboys’ headquarters is in Valley Ranch.

Irvin’s associate told the station the player gave the drugs to two women. The associate said he then returned the player to Valley Ranch, where he worked out.

Two weeks later, Dennis said Irvin purchased more cocaine, returning to his car with a baggie and talking with a fan through the vehicle’s window as he held the narcotics in his left hand.

“He told me just to wait in the car because he was going to be real quick,” the confidant-turned-informant told KXAS.

The videotape showed Irvin returning to the car, but Dennis said instead of letting him drive off, Irvin wanted to remain and talk to fans. A woman and her son, who could be heard but not seen on the tape, spoke with the Cowboys receiver.

“Little man knows something. What you know, little champ?” Irvin asked the boy. The boy replied, “I want to be like you.”

Irvin is heard telling the woman: “They say kids know more than we know. Because they’re pure. Pure in the mind and pure in the heart.”

Irvin then said to the boy, “So see, you know I’m a good man, huh?