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December 15, 2011
Bears Receiver Charged with Cocaine Distribution: Chicago Bears backup wide receiver Sam Hurd was arrested Wednesday night outside a Chicago restaurant after allegedly accepting a kilogram of cocaine from a confidential informant and an undercover federal agent posing as a drug supplier in an attempt to resell it. Hurd negotiated to buy five to 10 kilograms of cocaine (at $25,000 per kilo) and 1,000 pounds of marijuana a week (for $450 a pound), according to federal charges filed against him. Last offseason, Hurd joined the Bears in a three-year, $5.15 million deal. Chicago sports radio host Matt Spiegel tweeted, "They have a list of NFL players who got their drugs from Sam Hurd, and it's in the double digits."
"They have a list of NFL players who got their drugs from Sam Hurd, and it's in the double digits."
If this is true, it's going to be a shit storm of trouble.
posted by grum@work at 04:40 PM on December 15, 2011
Maybe Jerome Simpson is one of them.
posted by Ying Yang Mafia at 04:41 PM on December 15, 2011
I wonder which two teams are most likely to include Hurd's customers.
posted by rcade at 04:48 PM on December 15, 2011
Maybe Jerome Simpson is one of them.
Seems like he had his own source for reefer out in California, doesn't it?
posted by tahoemoj at 04:52 PM on December 15, 2011
No drug dealer is worth their weight in packing peanuts, but in some alternate universe, I can almost understand why some people resort to something like this as a last resort (I'm not justfying ... "almost understanding"). However, Hurd got a million+ signing bonus, receives almost $1 mill/year in salary and has a family. Hence this bringing out rare blind rage in me. Whether he is distributing this around all of Chicago or is more simply the hook-up for a bunch of other rich, hopefully-soon-to-be-out-of-the-NFL players, this guy has to be one of the world's top-notch morons.
posted by littleLebowski at 04:55 PM on December 15, 2011
Maybe Jerome Simpson is one of them.
Whatever happened to the charges against Simpson?
posted by tron7 at 05:02 PM on December 15, 2011
this guy has to be one of the world's top-notch morons
no kidding, seriously, how hard could it have been for him to get an out of work friend to do the dirty work?
posted by dviking at 12:48 AM on December 16, 2011
Just another case of supply and de man.
posted by beaverboard at 08:49 AM on December 16, 2011
This makes Nate Newtons 300pds of weed in a van seem like a weekend out.
posted by Debo270 at 09:16 AM on December 16, 2011
Whether he is distributing this around all of Chicago or is more simply the hook-up for a bunch of other rich, hopefully-soon-to-be-out-of-the-NFL players
If he's just the hook-up for a small number of NFL players, they'll be easy to spot: the dead ones.
posted by yerfatma at 11:25 AM on December 16, 2011
You mean the Rams?
posted by fabulon7 at 02:34 PM on December 16, 2011
He has been put on waivers. I don't like people losing their livelihood for being arrested or charged.
posted by bperk at 04:23 PM on December 16, 2011
You think that's bad - I've got to find another dealer!
posted by WeedyMcSmokey at 04:49 PM on December 16, 2011
I've heard players are advised to invest their money wisely when entering the league. Hurd must have only been present for a small portion of that session.