Former NBA player Delonte West has been arrested and booked on multiple charges, TMZ reports.
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia were called to a parking lot at 5:53 PM after witnesses claimed they saw West “trespassing” inside a vehicle.
When authorities tried to intervene, they said West became aggressive as they tried to detain him. After fleeing, West was found and ultimately detained and booked on four criminal charges including vehicle trespassing, entering a vehicle, fleeing from law enforcement, and public intoxication. He was released from custody on October 16.
The news comes as West was reportedly working towards his basketball comeback with Ice Cube’s BIG3 League. TMZ Sports reported in February that the 38-year-old was in training at the Pat The Rock Basketball Academy in Maryland, where a source said he had also “been speaking to the kids at the academy and shelling out advice on hoops.”
The former Dallas Mavericks player is no stranger to law enforcement. He had previously been arrested last October after getting into a drunken altercation with Boynton Beach police. His arrest came shortly after reports emerged he had gotten a job at the Rebound rehabilitation center in Florida, where he had previously been a patient at the behest of the Mavericks owner Mark Cuban.
“I can just confirm that I found him and helped him,” Cuban told The Washington Post at the time. “The rest is up to Delonte and his family to tell.”
