Ex-NBA Player Uses Drug-Dealing To Escape Life Of Wealth And Luxury
December 6, 2008 · Print This Article
Former NBA star Corie Blount took up drug-dealing in an apparent attempt to destroy his successful life. Perhaps he was getting back to his roots.
Basketball star Corie Blount grew up poor in southern California, amid a culture where “everybody wanted to sell drugs,” he told UC Magazine in its September issue.
With his days of playing professional basketball over, Blount finally got a chance to fulfill that childhood dream.
On Thursday, Butler County authorities arrested Blount after he accepted a U.S. Postal Service delivery of 11 pounds of marijuana at a Liberty Township property he owns. They followed Blount to his home nearby and arrested him. There, they found 18 more pounds of pot.
Drug-sniffing dogs found the dope even though it was enveloped in mustard, plastic wrap and fragrant clothes-dryer sheets, police said. The drugs came from an undisclosed location in California, and authorities there are investigating, officials said.
In addition to the pot, police confiscated $29,500 in cash, a Mercedes-Benz, a Cadillac Escalade, a Chevrolet Suburban and three guns – one of them an SKS assault rifle, said Butler County Sheriff’s Detective Mike Hackney.
Of course, dealing drugs is a lot more fun when you have nothing to lose. Blount has something to lose.
Blount co-owns a bar called The Garage in Sharonville. He also owns multiple parcels of real estate, including a secluded Liberty Township home valued at more than $500,000, where he lives with his wife and five children.
“You just think, ‘Why? Why would somebody that’s been so successful take these risks?’ It doesn’t seem like somebody who had a good life like that would do this,” Hackney said Friday. “I keep shaking my head.”
Apparently Hackney is unfamiliar with the concept of “Keeping it real”. Of course, Blount might have been unfamiliar with the concept of “When Keeping It Real Goes Wrong”
Blount, 39, is accused of possessing 29 pounds of marijuana. If convicted on the possession charge, he faces one to five years in prison. He was freed after posting $10,090 bond. Blount is scheduled to appear Wednesday in Butler County Area II Court in Hamilton. More charges are possible, officials said.
If Blount was looking to escape his charmed life, then this was very well played.
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