Bears WR Sam Hurd arrested
Hurd allegedly attempted to acquirement cocaine and marijuana from a supplier in North Texas, breadth the case will be adjudicated.
U.S. Magistrate Young Kim ordered Hurd captivated until at atomic Friday while prosecutors and aegis attorneys plan out band data afore he is beatific to Texas to face charges. The abandoned Hurd beneath animadversion to a anchorman afore the hearing.
Asked if he was still a affiliate of the Bears, he said: "As far as I know." He befuddled his arch if asked if he had talked to anyone on the team.
"Sam intends to action these charges, and we intend to avert him fully," said high-profile aegis advocate David Kenner, one of Hurd's lawyers. "We accept complete aplomb in him."
Kenner told The Associated Press that he and accomplice Brett Greenfield had not evaluated all of the advice in the case. But Kenner -- who auspiciously dedicated rapper Snoop Dogg adjoin annihilation accuse -- said he had added cases breadth the affirmation appeared to be ample adjoin his client.
"They alpha off analytic terrible, and again we end up with `not guiltys,'" Kenner said.
Kenner and Greenfield said they accepted Hurd to be appear from aegis Friday.
Hurd, 26, was arrested by clandestine agents at a Chicago breadth steakhouse Wednesday night and was due to appear Thursday in federal cloister to face a allegation that he did "possess with absorbed to deliver 500 grams or more" of cocaine.
"We are acquainted of Sam's arrest and are continuing to accumulate data surrounding it," the Bears said in a statement. "We are aghast whenever these affairs arise. We will accord with them appropriately already we accept all the information."
Hurd's abettor Ian Greengross did not acknowledgment calls gluttonous comment.
The analysis into Hurd's attack to buy ample amounts of cocaine and marijuana began in July 2011, if he was still a affiliate of the Dallas Cowboys, and assured if he alone met with an clandestine abettor Wednesday at Morton's The Steakhouse in Rosemont.
At that meeting, Hurd told the adviser that he capital to buy "five to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per anniversary for administration in the Chicago area," according to the complaint.
Hurd allegedly adjourned to pay $25,000 per kilogram for the cocaine and $450 per batter for the marijuana. The complaint says that Hurd "further declared that he and addition abettor currently deliver four kilograms of cocaine per anniversary in the Chicago area, but that the supplier could not accumulation him with abundant quantity."
After they agreed on a price, the clandestine abettor gave Hurd a kilogram of cocaine, according to the complaint. Hurd told the abettor that he plays for the Bears and would get out of convenance at 5:30 p.m., at which time he would accomplish arrange to pay for the drugs. According to the complaint, Hurd again took the drugs and got in his car. He was promptly arrested.
Hurd hit authorities' alarm in July, if a arcane adviser told badge that a man was attempting to access four kilograms of cocaine for an alien client in the Dallas area. That man was afterwards chock-full by badge with $88,000 in a canvas bag. He said that the car and the money belonged to Hurd. Badge confiscated the money, and Hurd afterwards contacted authorities aggravating to get the money back.
Hurd was interviewed by badge and accepted that he endemic the car and had taken the money out of the bank, but authorities begin that coffer annal did not bout the amount.
Then in August, argument letters and cellular buzz annal from a amount acclimated by Hurd showed up in affiliation to four individuals who were bedfast in California with currency, narcotics and weapons. The complaint states that the argument bulletin agreeable "appeared to be constant with narcotics trafficking and accessible money laundering."
In December, the arcane adviser told the abettor that he would accept to accommodated Hurd to "discuss approaching business." That led to the affair in Chicago Wednesday, at which Hurd told the abettor that his accessory handles the majority of deals while he was complex in the "higher-end" deals.
A free-agent accretion by the Bears from the Dallas Cowboys in July, Hurd has played in 12 amateur this division primarily as a special-teams contributor. As a receiver, Hurd had eight catches for 109 yards.
Bears drillmaster Lovie Smith said the alignment was afraid by the news.
"We came to plan like we commonly do on a Thursday. Sam wasn't in affairs this morning," Smith said. "From there of advance we started searching, aggravating to acquisition out why a amateur wouldn't be here. So there was no tipoff, didn't apperceive it was coming. Again, absolute surprise."
Bears linebacker Lance Briggs said: "I anticipate anybody is (shocked). Nice guy. Sam is a nice guy. Able-bodied liked, able-bodied admired in the locker room. He was a guy we were just all accepting to know.
"You abhorrence to see this appear to anyone. We all accomplish mistakes, but like I said, it's just sad to see."
Brian Urlacher aswell said Hurd seemed to be a acceptable teammate.
"Sad for him," Urlacher said. "Not abiding what is traveling on. But never wish to apprehend something like this appear to one of your teammates.
"Good teammate. That's what I apperceive of him. Outside of here, I don't apperceive him actual well, but he comes to plan every day and practices harder and plays hard. That's all I apperceive of him. He's a affable guy. Always been absolutely friendly. Says 'hi' in the alley every time you airing by him and I airing accomplished him 10 times a day in the alley and he still says 'hi' every time. He's a acceptable guy, from what I apperceive of him from getting in the building."
Receiver Roy Williams, who is aswell in his aboriginal division with the Bears afterwards spending three seasons with Hurd in Dallas, said it's a boxy bearings for his teammate.
"I'm just abashed about the situation," Williams said. "It's a bearings that I don't wish anyone to be in, abnormally a abutting acquaintance or a assistant I've been arena with now four or 5 years now. Abnormally a guy from Texas, with a wife and daughter.
"It's boxy for me, just could cause I'm not into drugs or annihilation like that. But I apperceive it has to be boxy for him, because he has his family, and that's a best that he made. And there's consequences, with the choices that you make."
In 2009, four years into his NFL career, Hurd accustomed a accommodating organization, Running with the Hurd, aimed at mentoring kids. The alignment sponsored a football affected in the South Texas city-limits of Harlingen endure year.
Hurd's sister, Jawanda Newsome, told the San Antonio Express-News in 2008 that her brother was paying to fix up their parents' home as able-bodied as accoutrement his adolescent brother's inferior academy tuition. She said she afraid about her brother because he was so decumbent to accord his money away.
Newsome told the bi-weekly Thursday she is acquisitive humans will burden from apperception about her brother's case.
"We charge to see what the aftereffect is," she said. "He has a lawyer. I achievement San Antonio doesn't lose its assurance in Sam. We are praying for a absolute outcome, because we don't yet apperceive determined facts either."
Hurd active a three-year accord on July 30 that included a signing benefit of $1.3 actor and will pay him abject salaries of $685,000 in 2011, $865,000 in 2012, and $1 actor in 2013.
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