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Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Isaiah Buggs has once again made headlines, but this time for all the wrong reasons. Buggs has been arrested for the second time in a month, marking a troubling development in his career.
Now here is the crazy part; the chiefs generally have racked up quite a record when it comes to domestic violence. Starting from 2012 they had two domestic murder-suicides. In 2017, three players were suspended for violence against women and children.
One of the most recent incidents involves Rashee Rice’s alleged assault of a photographer at a nightclub. We now have the most recent arrest of Buggs in Alabama. He was booked into Tuscaloosa County Jail on charges of second-degree domestic violence and second-degree burglary
This isn’t his first rodeo in the Tuscaloosa County Jail. About 3 weeks ago the police received information about dogs left on the back porch of a home that Buggs rented. When the police and animal control officers arrived at the scene they found a pit bull surrounded by faeces and a Rottweiler mix locked in a cage in direct sunlight.
The dogs were also found to be severely malnourished and were then taken to the animal shelter. He was then charged with cruelty to dogs in the second degree and was later released on a $600 bail.
There were no other details about Buggs’ arrest. The Chiefs were aware of the case but declined to comment.
Off-Field Violence And How it’s Affecting Kansas Chiefs’ Reputation
Since defeating the San Francisco 49ers in February, the Chiefs have faced a number of off-field legal difficulties. Rice, a wide receiver, faces eight felony charges stemming from a high-speed crash in Dallas. At the same time, offensive linemen Chukwuebuka Godrick and Wanya Morris were arrested last month in Johnson County, Kansas, for misdemeanour marijuana possession.
Now, Buggs has been charged for the second time in just a month. However, his animal cruelty arrest was claimed by Buggs’ agent, Trey Robinson as a setup. He says that Buggs’s arrest is due to him being the subject of police harassment. And the main source of all this problem is his refusal to close his Tuscaloosa hookah joint.
According to his statement, the City used the threat of pursuing and publicizing both the recent allegations and the arrests as leverage against Buggs, offering to drop and not pursue them in exchange for his voluntary surrender of the business license.
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After Buggs’s arrest, things do not look good to him. It would be shocking if the Chiefs didn’t move on from him. As a fourth-string defensive tackle, he wouldn’t be guaranteed a spot on the 53-man roster regardless of his legal predicament.
It’s funny that the Chiefs have a lot of work to do, but the majority of that work is them cleaning up the mess the players have created.
