Ex-Giants Star WR Collared After a Month on the Run
Posted by Bossip Staff
Mark Ingram was taken down in Flint, MI, trying to lay low and avoid serving his prison term:
NEW YORK (AP)—Former New York Giant Mark Ingram was arrested in Michigan, nearly a month after he disappeared on the day he was scheduled to begin serving a prison sentence for bank fraud and money laundering.
U.S. marshals tracked the retired wide receiver to a hotel room in Flint, Mich., after a manhunt that began when he failed to turn up at a federal prison in Kentucky on Dec. 5.
A spokesman for the Marshals Service in New York, Timothy Hogan, said Ingram was arrested Friday without incident. The hotel wasn’t far from Ingram’s home in Grand Blanc, Mich.
Ingram, who has been in and out of jail since his playing career ended in 1996, pleaded guilty in 2005 to cashing counterfeit checks and laundering money he believed to be proceeds from narcotics deals.
Before his flight, the 1991 Super Bowl standout had sought to delay the start of his nearly eight-year prison term so he could watch his son’s freshman season as a running back at the University of Alabama.
His arrest came just before the start of his son’s biggest game: A Sugar Bowl matchup against Utah, which Alabama lost 31-17.
Marshals also had been looking for Ingram in New Orleans, where the game was played, Hogan said.
Ingram’s attorney, Raymond Colon, did not immediately return phone and e-mail messages on Saturday.
Ingram spent six seasons with the Giants. He also played for Miami, Green Bay and Philadelphia in his 10-year career.
He is scheduled to appear in a federal court in Michigan on Monday. Ingram will travel to New York, where he was prosecuted, to face charges related to his flight.
Ya’ll, these athletes never seem to amaze us with their f*ck ups and mishaps. SMH at whooping baby mamas’ asses, stashing artillery, shooting themselves, killing, cheating, robbing, laundering money, and other deplorable activity. F*ck an athletic thug.
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1st, wow. What a shame. Manhunters is my favorite new show.
Damn, I kinda agree with you on this one Bossip. Everybody makes a mistake here and there. But these guys really think the law does not appy to them and they don’t have to follow the rules of society. They can only run for so long, Then it’s time to face the music.
Thats jacked up, why he get all that time but when these white ppl get charged for some of the same stuff they get at the most a year. Thats sad…
He broke the law that is why he is getting all that time. I don’t know what the hell is wrong with these athletes. They just don’t know how luck they are and they blow all that on some foolishness. Bossip, yall forgot to add SMH at dog fighting too.
Drugs.
What happens when you will do anything to keep them in your life.
Another suspect!
These athletes are breeded into believing they can do anything they want, that is why they act like this. i am glad the law is finally cracking down on their *****es!! Hopefully it will help some up and coming young and foolish athletes!!
The stiff sentence reflects his record of being “in and out of jail since his playing career ended”. That’s why others who may have committed similar crimes don’t get the sentence he received. Too many of these athletes have nothing in between the ears.
These athletes are given the opportunity of a lifetime, only to ***** up!
Ignorance gets no sympathy from me!
WELL NOW MIKE VIC WILL HAVE A CELL MATE TO TAK TO
damn these black players are jus striat up dumb n’ stupid…. how do u make it dat far n dan ***** up!
Who?
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THIS dumb *****hole took his chances,
the dumb***** can pay the price.
This ***** is not a victim —
If he was so STUPID that while
he was making NFL bread he didn’t
set any of if aside for the day
he was no longer able to play, then
***** HIM — how many of YOUR *****es
have ever earned a million dollar
pay day ? If you HAVE, did you take
it all and SPEND IT ?
Didn’t think so.
oh my
I SAY DIP HIM IN BUTTER AND THROW HIM ON YHE PRISON YARD NAKED.
How do you play pro football for ten years, get exposed to all the things available in life, then throw it all away trying to live the thug life? This is not sentencing disparity, this is do the crime, do
the time. Maybe his son will learn from his fathers mistakes, and do it right for the next generation.