Rumor: Alston arrested for PI and Assault (CONFIRMED)

People here just hate the dude way too much. A PI, are you serious? You can go around downtown, Midtown, Rice Village, ect.....and hand out a PI to just about anyone you wanted to.

Rafer's account is exactly what happened. Not saying he hadn't been drinking, and the comments made between the parking attendent and himself didn't go like that but he never resisted arrest, caused any problems for the officers,ect.... A lot of those parking guys downtown are scumbags (I'm sure we have all had our experiences with them). They had just towed his Bentley and he was pissed. The parking lot attendent overreacted. He may have bewen intimidated but no contact was made whatsoever. The fact that he is filing an assualt charge is beyond ridiculous.

Nobody was right in the situation but this whole thread is tearing rafer up for something that is more bs then anything erlse. If you want to condem him for a PI fine. I personally would bet most of you talking trash have came out a club or bar pretty trashed. It all boils down to the fact you don't like him. if it was another player this thread wouldn't even have even been close to what it was. The fact it got 4 stars in unreal (unless people were voting for the breaking info and not the insults in the thread). When the asualt charges are found bogus and the toxicology results come back I'll wonder what the opinions will be then.

Closing this little rant, this isn't good for our team. There are players I haven't liked as Rockets but I don't get excited when they get in trouble and happy about it. Plus, given the fact we are going to be trading him, this is a negative for the team. So rafer gets screwed and so do we because of some trash charges. Great, that does a lot for the market on him.

 

I am not a Rafer fan, thought the Alston/James trade was one of the Rocket's worst, thought JVG kept defending Rafer for spite, BUT Rafer seems like a nice guy, and I don't think anyone in his position deserves to be humiliated. The Rockets obviously have lost confidence in him. The fact is they should have never traded for him, made him a starter, and kept him in that role when he wasn't performing up to expectations. In a way, they set him up to fail. I feel bad for the guy. He must feel really screwed over. BUT going out in public and being stupid isn't the answer. I hope he can be traded, soon.

 

No sh*t ~ his trade value just fell through the floor.

 

OK, who was the BBS Rafer hater who cuffed him!?

 

I guess it really depends on what you consider acting stupid. he doesn't feel screwed over by Houston. He's been all over the NBA and understands it's a business move. he was more then happy with the Miami deal. Why we didn't pull the trigger on it I will never know. The Clippers were also interested but we waited till they signed Knight. Frustration is setting in now because he should have been traded as soon as we got Francis. TRhere just isn't a place for him anymore.

Back to my point though. I've come out of plenty of bars and clubs wasted before. I've had my car towed sober and went off on people (and I don't drive a bentley). A PI is not something I take seriously. If he was behind the wheel we would be talking about something different. However, words were exchanged and even if the parking attendent felt scared no contact was made. he is trying to make a dollar. That's sad but it happens to athletes all the time. Like I said, the assault charges will be gone. As far as the PI, depends on how high his BA content was. I'll just put it like this, he was super cooperative with the police so if he was drunk and raging (like the parking attendant insinuated) he wouldn't have went quitely. When you're in that state it just doesn't happen.

 

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There is a chance the cop was just racist and arrested him anyway because he was black...

 

There is no rafer hater out to get him. He broke the law and the cops arrested him. End of story. Rafer is not immune from the law.

 

Not really to be honest. We should have dealt him to Miami before the signed Parker or the Clips before Knight. The assault charges will be dropped and a PI is a minor thing. For some reason Morey has been reluctant to deal him. I could see a Cavs trade or something to that effect. it's still not good though regardless. i don't know why we continued to sit on a player who has no place on our roster

 

WOW!!I cant believe some of you are already convinced that he is guilty? Maybe it really happened the way he said it did. Maybe the security guard was intimidated by him and over reacted running of and screaming for the police.

 

Who is saying he is. I certainly am not. in fact, my exact quote was "nobody was right in this situation". That being said, a PI bro. Seriously? If the shoe was on the other foot i wonder if you would have thast opinion. I'm not even condoning what he did, just stating that he never assaulted anyone and this is being blown out of proportion (plus it sucks period as a Rockets fan)

 

That's actually what happened. Although words were exhanged and rafer had been drinking. However, even though his car was towed, he was angry and had been drinking, he never laid a hand on the dude and was cooperative with the officers (who were doing there job because they have no way of knowing what happened).

 

Why turn a civil debate stupid?

 

Clock is ticking for Rafer Alston!

I would guess that little fiasco in downtown club was trigger by some Rocket fans talking about Alston is next on the list eaves drop thing! Rafer love Tmac and Yao hoping he will be a part of great coming season and just recently found out that he is a trade bait. I really like the guy but he just become expendable! Oh well lets move it on!

 

I personally think the attendant was Clutch... Think about it... I'ma send him a PM and see...

 

I would guess you're WAY WAY off.

HOUSTON -- Rockets guard Rafer Alston said Monday he was innocent of misdemeanor assault and public intoxication charges filed against him a day earlier.

Alston was accused of grabbing a parking attendant's arm, shaking him and spitting on him after Alston's vehicle was towed from a lot early Sunday. The attendant said Alston parked illegally and did not pay.

Alston told Houston television station KRIV that he didn't do anything to the attendant.

"We got into a shouting match. My car was towed and I was basically asking the parking attendant where he had my car towed to," Alston said in a story on KRIV's Web site. "There were no hits, nothing transpired. The guy runs off and yells down the street, like, he needed an officer over here. Before you know it, the officer puts me in cuffs and takes me downtown."

"I asked the guy what was I being charged with and he said public intoxication and assaulting someone, and I said, 'I am neither of those,'" Alston said.

Both charges against Alston are misdemeanors, said Victor Senties, a Houston police spokesman.

"We are aware of the situation and are attempting to get more details about the incident," Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said in a statement. "While we do not have all the facts yet, it is nevertheless very disappointing to have one of our players involved with any police activity. We will continue working with the authorities in order to get to the bottom of the situation."

The 6-foot-2 player out of Fresno State joined the NBA during the 1999-2000 season with Milwaukee. Alston signed with the Rockets in 2004 and averaged 13.3 points last season.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2964026

1. The incident wasn't in a night club.
2. It wasn't because he overheard anything. It was because his car was towed.
3. Rafer has BEEN expendable ever since we added James, Brooks and then Francis.

 

now that we apparently know the story, i really have no problem with what rafer did. sounds like something that could happen to anyone coming out of the bar, unless he was just really intoxicated.

sucks that it comes at a time when we're trying to unload him though.

 

Innocent until proven guilty.

 

I hope Rafer is innocent. He seemed like a classy guy on and off the court the years he been here.

 

Not exactly true. Many times people have been arrested under "suspicion" of PI when in fact they had not even drank. In fact, under the law you can be anywhere around or near a bar and be charged just for being in the vicinity. Especially by Sh**ty Oakridge cops.