Patterson, Stoudamire, Wallace all to be arraigned Dec. 6
You know it's going to be a great day when 3/5 of your starting lineup is scheduled to be arraigned on the same day. Ruben Patterson is the latest Portland Jailblazer miscreant to find himself on the wrong side of the law- this time on a felony domestic assault charge.
Tualatin police spokesman Sgt. Doug Nafziger said the five-year veteran was taken into custody after his wife, Shannon, called 911 and said he had assaulted her at their Tualatin home.
Nafzinger said that when police got to the home at about 5:20 p.m, ''they found that Mrs. Patterson had minor assaults.''
The couple's children, ages 2 and 10, were in the house when the alleged assault took place, police said.
The presence of the children is enough to boost the reported incident from a misdemeanor to a felony under Oregon law, Nafziger said.
Patterson was booked in the Washington County Jail -- but later released after teammate Derek Anderson posted $1,000 bail, Nafziger said.
Of course, this is not the first time that Patterson has run afoul of the law. He left the Seattle Supersonics because he is a registered sex offender in the state of Washington. Apparently, Patterson doesn't play well with others.
It's not Patterson's first run-in with the law. In 2001, Patterson entered a modified guilty plea in Washington state to attempted rape. Patterson allegedly forced the then-24-year-old nanny of his children to perform a sex act on him the previous year.
Under the agreement, Patterson did not admit guilt, but acknowledged there was enough evidence to convict him.
He was sentenced to a year in jail, but the judge suspended all but 15 days of the sentence, which Patterson served in his Cleveland home. The NBA suspended him for the first five games of last season, his first with the Blazers after signing a six-year, $33.8 million free agent contract following two years with the SuperSonics.
''I'm not no bad guy,'' Patterson said at the news conference in August of 2001 introducing him as a Blazer. ''I'm not no rapist. I'm a great guy.''
Patterson also was convicted of misdemeanor assault in February 2001 for attacking a man who had scratched his car outside a Cleveland nightclub in June 2000.
A great guy? No, you may be a hell of a basketball player, but you are in the same class as Damon Stoudamire and Rasheed Wallace. %$^#|*& morons....
