Chicago Bears cornerback Deiondre’ Hall is apparently better at catching criminal charges than he is a football.
The 22-year-old played only eight games and made one interception during last season, but the Bears’ 29th pick in the fourth round of last year’s draft picked up three criminal charges outside of Sharkey’s Funhouse bar in Cedar Falls, Iowa on Sunday.
Police allege Hall was “flailing his arms and yelling profanity at bar staff and patrons” when they arrived around 12:56 p.m. and wasn’t very cooperative when they tried to ask him a few questions, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Police allege Hall yelled and spit in their faces and attempted to flee and they put him under arrest.
When officers attempted to put him in the patrol car, he refused until a female officer Tasered him in the left leg to force him to comply.
According to the news site:
Officers said Hall smelled of alcohol, his eyes were bloodshot and his speech was slurred. He refused a Breathalyzer test and was cited for three misdemeanors: interference with official acts, public intoxication and disorderly conduct for fighting.
Hall, who played college ball for the University of North Iowa, was released on bail Sunday, according to the Chicago Patch.
He was allegedly at the bar with former college teammate Makinton Dorleant, now a cornerback for the Green Bay Packers.
Dorleant was also arrested when he attempted to intervene in Hall’s arrest.
“Officers said the crowd became hostile while they arrested Hall and Dorleant attempted to grab Hall away from officers. After removing Hall from the scene, Dorleant began ‘yelling and waving his arms in a threatening manner,’ according to the police report. They said he individually approached 3 officers who each told him to get back on the sidewalk,” KCRG reports. “One officer felt threatened enough to pull his baton out, according to the report. Police said Dorleant was yelling and using profanity at all the officers, who then arrested him on a charge of interference with official acts.
“Police said one officer was hit in the back of the head with a beer bottle during the incident. Police are looking at surveillance video to determine who hit the officer.”
The Bears acknowledged Hall’s arrest but offered no comment to the Sun-Times, which noted that “all arrested players are subject to discipline under the NFL’s personal-conduct policy.”
He’s only the latest player with the organization to face criminal charges in recent years.
The Bears cut defensive end Ray McDonald after his arrest in May 2015 for domestic violence and child endangerment, an incident that came just a few months after cornerback Tim Jennings’ arrest for DUI, speeding and reckless driving that January.
Henry Melton, a defensive tackle, was also arrested for public intoxication and assault in 2013, according to the news site.
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