Remember his Fast and Furious episode (minus the beautiful Jordanna Brewster)? That’s all taken care of now.
per league source n confirmed by monroe, la. DA office all charges against jason peters from a drag racing incident in june were dismissed
— Derrick Gunn (@TheRealDGunnCSN) July 17, 2013
… flight, according to the Monroe, La. DA's office. Peters paid a fine of $656.50 on June 21, the office said, thus closing the case.
— Jeff McLane (@Jeff_McLane) July 17, 2013
So $650 saved him from being Public Enemy No. 1. I don’t mean to make light of what he did, but there seemed to be a bit of an overreaction to him “fleeing the police”.
All’s well that ends well.
The really good news is that Peters won his lawsuit from last year’s re-injury in the Roll-A-Bout. Dan Graziano has the details. Peters got $2M in the lawsuit.
Pretty good day. I’m excited to find a dime in the couch. Winning a major lawsuit and getting out of trouble is better than anything I’ve had in a while. Consider me officially jealous.
My godfather is an engineer who works as a hired consultant on cases that involve suspected engineering defects and he was actually hired to investigate Peters’ roll-a-bout case. He couldn’t tell me much about it when we were discussing it earlier this year but now that the case is over maybe I can get some details.
I suspect your comment on the htoh show was correct, and the police officer was just pissed at JP. Don’t know.the details, though.
Perhaps lightning wasn’t the only thing greased in Louisiana.
i read elsewhere that this was a case of the police going too far with their charges. apparently, he just had an illegal aftermarket muffler on his car.
if thats the case, it was probably the kind that makes your car super loud when accelerating at any pace. so, he could have been driving like normal… a cop hears the noise from his car and naturally assumes he was racing because of the noise.
a similar thing happened to a friend of mine when he got pulled over driving the speed limit with no other cars around for him to possibly be racing. the first thing the cop asks is “who were you racing?” lol