Iverson likely to face charges
Philadelphia ? Police plan to recommend that prosecutors issue a warrant for the arrest of NBA All-Star Allen Iverson for allegedly barging into an apartment and threatening two men while armed.
District Attorney Lynne Abraham’s office will be asked today to approve charges of aggravated assault and making terroristic threats while armed, Philadelphia police Lt. Michael Chitwood said Tuesday.
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“We feel there’s enough evidence there now to do what we’ve got to do arrest him,” Chitwood said.
If Abraham approves the charges, the Philadelphia guard would be asked to turn himself in, police said.
Iverson, 27, had a gun when he forced his way inside an apartment last week and threatened two men, one of the men said Tuesday.
Charles Jones, 21, met with police Tuesday and told reporters Iverson threatened him and another man in the early morning hours of July 3.
Iverson, accompanied by another man, reportedly went to an apartment complex before dawn to look for Iverson’s wife, Tawanna, and cousin, Shaun Bowman, who lives there. Neither was there, Jones said.
Jones declined to reveal what Iverson said or how he threatened him. Jones said Iverson had a black handgun but did not brandish it.
Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson said that Iverson allegedly had the gun inside his waistband.
In 1997, Iverson pleaded no contest to a gun charge after police in Richmond, Va., stopped a car in which he was a passenger and found a gun belonging to Iverson and two marijuana cigarettes.
He pleaded no contest to the gun charge, and a marijuana-possession charge was dropped. He was sentenced to probation.