NFL player Sam Hurd facing life in prison for buying drugs in sting op

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NFL Baller Sam Hurd Facing Prison Time For Drug Trafficking

Via ABCNews

While NFL teammates and friends knew Sam Hurd as a hardworking wide receiver and married father, authorities say he was fashioning a separate identity as a wannabe drug kingpin with a focus on “high-end deals” and a need for large amounts of cocaine and marijuana.

Two years later, Hurd will enter a federal courtroom with his future in tatters as he faces possibly spending the rest of his life in prison.

Hurd is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty in April to one count of trying to buy and distribute large amounts of cocaine and marijuana. The charge carries a minimum 10-year sentence, but prosecutors may push for a sentence up to life.

His December 2011 arrest outside a suburban Chicago steakhouse came after he tried to buy a kilogram of cocaine in what turned out to be a sting. According to a federal complaint, Hurd told an undercover agent that he wanted 5 to 10 kilograms of cocaine and 1,000 pounds of marijuana per week to distribute in the Chicago area. He claimed he was already distributing 4 kilograms a week, according to the complaint. A kilogram is about 2.2 pounds.

At the time, Hurd was a wide receiver with stints for the Bears and Dallas Cowboys who had played most of his five seasons on special teams. He was in the first year of a three-year contract reportedly worth more than $5 million.

But wait, Sam wasn’t quite done being a dumbazz…

The Bears soon cut him. Hurd was released on bond and returned to Texas, where he grew up, but soon fell into trouble again, according to court documents. He allegedly tried to buy more cocaine and marijuana through a cousin, Jesse Tyrone Chavful, and failed two drug tests. That led a magistrate judge in August 2012 to revoke his bond and order him returned to jail.

In April, when the tall, lanky Hurd stood before a judge in an orange jumpsuit and pleaded guilty, he asked to address the court.

“I’m sorry for everything I’ve done,” he told the judge.

While no other players are known to have been charged in connection with the case, Hurd claimed in an interview published Tuesday that he shared marijuana with Cowboys teammates and smoked during the last three to four years of his career “all day, every day.”

“I’m in the NFL, and I’m gonna ask people for a few hundred dollars on top of what I paid for it? Nah,” Hurd told Sports Illustrated. “Slide me what I got it for and take it. Enjoy it.”

Bye-bye Sammy, enjoy your stay in prison. Don’t trip about the wardrobe, nowadays, orange is the new black…

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