Former NBA participant Ben Gordon was arrested at LaGuardia airport in New York Metropolis on Monday for reportedly placing his 10-year-old son, sources inform the New York Put up.
The 39-year-old one-time “Sixth Man of the 12 months” was ready for a flight to Chicago when Port Authority cops allegedly barred him from getting into the airplane and arrested him at 8:45 p.m., in response to the Put up.
His son, who was not publicly named because of his age, was introduced by his aunt to Lengthy Island Jewish Youngsters’s Hospital for analysis.
Gordon’s Son Taken To Hospital For Analysis, Former NBA Participant Arrested By Port Authority Police
The previous capturing guard, who performed beforehand for the likes of the Chicago Bulls and Detroit Pistons earlier than leaving the NBA in 2015, was booked and processed on the Port Authorities police station home.
Expenses towards him are nonetheless pending, and particulars about his arrest and son’s situation remained unknown as of Tuesday.
The Put up, citing police sources, reported that two Port Authorities officers acquired minor accidents through the arrest, nevertheless it was not instantly clear as to how they had been injured.
That is hardly the primary brush with the regulation for Gordon, who’s been arrested a number of instances in the previous few years.
Gordon Opens Up About Psychological Well being Points, Suicidal Ideas, Bother With The Regulation
In 2017, Gordon was arrested for assault and theft. That very same yr, he was additionally charged with driving with a cast license plate in Harlem. He was additionally charged with setting off hearth alarms inside his Los Angeles house in one other arrest, even if there was no hearth, the Put up reported.
A British-born American who holds dual-citizenship, Gordon went to Mount Vernon Excessive Faculty in Westchester County, simply north of New York Metropolis, earlier than starring at UConn and successful a nationwide championship again in 2004.
Gordon has been very candid over time along with his psychological well being points.
Extra bother for Ben Gordon. This time, felony theft arrest. https://t.co/2ml3Y1Wney #Bulls pic.twitter.com/nLil6xltEN https://t.co/iR2K1j4edQ
— ChicagoBulls Social (@ChicagoBullsSoc) November 28, 2017
In 2020, he opened up about his struggles in a chilling first-person account in The Gamers’ Tribune, writing that he even contemplated suicide at instances.
“I’d be up on the roof of my house constructing at 4 o’ clock within the morning, simply pacing to the sting of the ledge, trying over — pacing backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards — simply pondering, I’m actually about to do it, B,” Gordon wrote.
Gordon went on to write down that his panic assaults obtained so dangerous one evening, that “all I may take into consideration was escape.”
“I’m about to flee from all this s–t. I used to be obsessive about killing myself. It’s all I researched, all I thought of. One evening my panic assaults obtained so dangerous that each one I may take into consideration was escape. … You grow to be like an animal. It’s instinctive.”
