Former Cowboy Newton released on 100,000 bond Former Dallas Cowboys lineman. Times researcher Norma Kaufman contributed to this story. Nate Newton arrested on drug charges - again Former Cowboys lineman Nate. Newton faces a felony charge of possession with intent to deliver, Dallas County Sheriff's Department spokesman Don Peritz said. DALLAS - Former Dallas Cowboys lineman Nate Newton was arrested Wednesday on charges of carrying at least 175 pounds of marijuana in his car. He was found guilty of the same charge in 1979 as well, and finally was sentenced in 1981 after lengthy appeals.Įven during these difficulties, Newton, the son of a Louisiana preacher, pursued an education. Former Cowboy Nate Newton arrested again on drug charges. He returned in 1977 to face the charges two trials ended in hung juries.Ī year later, he was found guilty of being an ex-felon in possession of a handgun. In 1974, after being accused of killing a 17-year-old prostitute and pistol-whipping his tailor, Newton fled to Cuba and claimed political asylum. He was released in 1970, after serving 22 months in prison, when a state appeals court ruled that the jury in the case had received improper deliberation instructions from the trial judge. Newton was convicted in 1968 of voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to spend from two to 15 years in prison. One year after organizing the Panthers, Newton was shot and wounded during a furious gun battle with Oakland police that left an officer dead. In 2002, he was sentenced to (and served) 30 months in prison and was released in the fall of 2004. Weeks later in Texas, Newton was arrested again, this time with 175 pounds of. That case, settled last March, and the drug charge were the latest in a long series of Newton confrontations with the law. He was arrested what was considered a routine police stop by Louisiaa police and was found with 213 pounds of marijuana. He was sentenced to six months in jail and 18 months probation. Most of those charges, however, eventually were dropped and Newton pleaded no contest to a single allegation of cashing a $15,000 state check for his own use. Former Dallas Cowboy offensive lineman Nate Newton, 39, was arrested Wednesday at Dallas on charges of carrying at least 175 pounds of marijuana in his car, his second such arrest in six weeks. Newton disbanded the group in 1982 after he was accused of embezzling $600,000 in state aid to the Panther-run Oakland Community School. Later, the Panthers concentrated on programs to feed the hungry, teach the young and battle drug abuse and the pushers who encouraged it.
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