Police say Jones case still active
Las Vegas prosecutors asked police to do more investigating before charges are filed against Tennessee 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.
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 within the next 10 days.
Jones told the NFL Network, in an interview that will be broadcast today and Friday, that football means the world to him and also addressed why trouble seems to follow him.
“Like I said, man, it was the people I was hanging around,” said Jones, according to an NFL Network transcript. “I made some bad decisions. I am not living a lie. I promise you that I am on the right track, but I have made horrible decisions about who I am with or who I am going places with.”
These are Jones’ first public comments since the Las Vegas incident.
“I just explained myself and told him nothing but the truth, you know,” Jones said of the meeting with Goodell. “He asked me like, ‘How can we help you?’ You know? How can he help me? What can I do to change my image? So it’s on me.”
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 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.”
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