Mark Sanchez faces a felony, and claims that he has caused “severe” injuries
The former California University midfielder Mark Sanchez faces a felony after his physical quarrel with a 69 -year -old truck driver this week, leaving the other man with what the prosecutor described on Monday as “very severe and severe” injuries.
The Marion Province, Indiana, Prosecutor Ryan Meers, told reporters At a press conference On Monday, the 38 -year -old US Football Association player and the current Fox analyst was accused of a fifth -level crime of the battery that involves a serious physical injury, which Mayz said might lead to imprisonment for a year to six years.
After IMPD was presented on Saturday, Sanchez was accused of three misdemeanors – a battery, which resulted in an injury, an unauthorized entry into a car and a general poisoning.
More investigations by IMPD have previously submitted a second written certificate on Monday morning, which led to a felony against Sanchez.
“Once we are provided with additional information about the current medical condition of the victim, we have become clear that additional charges are needed,” said Chris Billy, chief of Indianapolis policeman, Metropolitan.
Mears added that more charges could be related to the accident that occurred late from Friday night until Saturday morning in an alley outside a hotel in the center of Indianapolis.
“One of the things that I will assure everyone is that we are still in the early stages of this investigation,” Mayers said. “The president and his team have a number of research orders that are still great. They are still tracking additional information. This is not, in any way, the end of this investigation. This, in no way, this will be that this will be the final charges that we are advancing.”
A preliminary hearing was postponed from Tuesday morning until November 4.
According to the first IMPD certificate, which was based on surveillance footage in hotels and a statement by the police truck driver, Sanchez had accused a box truck driver of supported the hotel loader sidewalks.
Sanchez, who was in the city to contact Raiders-Colts on Sunday for Fox SPORTS, which smelled alcohol at that time.
During the following fight, Sanchez threw the man to the wall as well as on the ground, as the statement said, before the driver, believing that he was in danger, Sanchez sprayed with pepper spraying and stabbed him in the end.
The truck driver said of his left cheek and was taken to a hospital different from Sanchez. Max Lewis from Wxin-TV In Indianapolis, she reported on Sunday that the driver’s family, who wanted to not reveal her identity, said that the pieces “passed his cheek and hit his tongue”, making the speech difficult.
Lewis also posted pictures that he said that the family that showed the driver in a hospital bed with sheets seems to have several blood spots near them near the cheek area on the cheek of the man. The man, whose eyes were listed to protect his identity, wears what appears to be a stent of a neck and is linked to observers.
Later on Sunday, family members He told the New York Post From the driver, “he’s okay.”
They added, “We are talking to lawyers first. We want to be careful.”
According to the first linear statement, the driver was to download as part of his job with a company that recycles and get rid of commercial cooking oil. He claimed that Sanchez faced him and said the hotel manager told Sanchez that he did not want the driver to replace cooking oil.
“Certainly the thing that highlights for us is that this is the position that he did not need to happen,” said Mears. “… we are literally talking about people who are fighting in a parking lot or a conflict over the place of people parking, and this has led to incredibly significant injuries.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.