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Deputy had to pull Taser in order to arrest Green |
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A sheriff’s deputy’s Taser convinced Packers running back Ahman Green to stop resisting and put his hands behind his back while being arrested after an argument with his wife late Monday.Posted Apr. 28, 2005
Deputy had to pull Taser in order to arrest Green
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Packers player was yelling in wife’s face, report says
By Andy Nelesen
anelesen@greenbaypressgazette.com
A sheriff’s deputy’s Taser convinced Packers running back Ahman Green to stop resisting and put his hands behind his back while being arrested after an argument with his wife late Monday.
Brown County Sheriff’s deputies were called to Green’s Ledgeview home about 10:10 p.m. Monday when someone hung up on 911 operators. Dispatchers told responding deputies that someone in the background of the call was heard yelling “help me” before the line went dead. Two return calls from authorities went unanswered.
When deputies arrived, they met Green’s wife, Heather, in her car at an intersection near the couple’s home. She told deputies that she and Green were having marital difficulties and a discussion escalated into an argument with Green yelling “Get the (expletive) out,” according to an arrest report released Wednesday.
Heather Green, 33, told deputies that Ahman, 28, was punching the bed and pillows with his fists before he got in her face and yelled some more.
“Ahman was very upset and yelling so loud that his spit was hitting me on the face,” Heather Green said in her written statement. “I began walking backward and Ahman just kept yelling in my face until he had me backed up against a wall.”
Heather Green said she got away from Green and grabbed a phone and called 911. Green took the phone away from her and hung it up, saying “What the (expletive) did you call them for?”
When deputies arrived at the home, Green initially answered questions and tried to downplay the situation by saying his wife exaggerates when they have arguments, the report said. Green admitted that he hung up the phone when his wife tried to call but added that he didn’t think the call had gone through.
As deputies pressed the issue, Green became agitated and told deputies to leave his house, the report said. Green told deputies that he was a football player and he wanted to go to bed because he had practice in the morning.
When Green refused to answer any more questions, deputies told him he was under arrest for disorderly conduct as a domestic violence offense and ordered him to place his hands behind his back. Green repeatedly refused and tensed his arms as deputies grabbed hold of him. Only after Sgt. Tim Johnson unholstered his Taser did Green cooperate and allow deputies to handcuff him.
Green was taken to the Brown County Jail, where he was booked and posted $150 bail a short time later. He has not been formally charged with a crime in the case.
Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski said his office has received the case file and will make a decision in the next few days. If they decide to file a criminal complaint, Green will be expected to appear May 11 in Brown County intake court.
Heather Green told authorities that she was not injured in the altercation but fled the house in her pajamas because she feared for her safety. There was no property damage inside the home, according to sheriff’s reports, but Heather Green said she is fearful of the aftermath of the arrest.
“I am afraid of what Ahman may do to me now that he has been arrested and what he may to do my property I left at the house,” she said in her statement.
While addressing the media at the Packers first minicamp of the year, Ahman Green called the incident a “bump in the road.”
“Right now, it’s a personal thing that myself and my family would like to handle on our own, privately,” Green said. “When everything is said and done, it’s behind us. I can move on with my life. My family can move on.
“I’m only human, just like anyone else in this country, in this world, and things happen.”
This is the third domestic violence incident in Green’s recent history.
In March 1999, he was arrested in Kirkland, Wash., and spent a night in jail after he allegedly pushed a door into his girlfriend’s face, chipped her tooth and bloodied her lip. The charges were dropped three months later when the alleged victim, Shalynn Vance, told prosecutors that she wouldn’t return to testify against Green. She had moved to Florida after Green’s arrest.
The two later married, and in March 2002, they both received disturbing-the-peace tickets following an argument at their Lincoln, Neb., home. According to published reports at the time, the two argued loudly in their apartment, and Shalynn Green threw a plastic container at Green, cutting the inside of his mouth. Prosecutors would later file charges against Green’s wife but, citing a lack of evidence, they would not file charges against Ahman Green.
The couple divorced in 2003.
“I’ve been through this unfortunately before,” Green said. “I’m a grown man, I know I can handle this, but if I do need support, if I’ve got to lean on somebody’s shoulder I will, so to all them friends who are leaving me messages and supporting me, continue to do that.
“If I do need a pickup, I will make a phone call or call who I need to get through this for myself and my family.” |
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