Newton was charged with two female suspects in the Louisiana case. He and three other suspects were charged with conspiracy to possess and distribute marijuana.
He said arresting officers found about 170 pounds of marijuana in the car and $10,000, but no drugs, in the truck Newton was driving. 12 in Texas by federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents who had his pickup truck and a car under surveillance after an informant’s tip, according to a court affidavit from DEA Special Agent Andrew Joe Pearce. now everybody drafts a bunch of fat guys.” He took all those 235-pound weaklings out of the game. In those days Newton jokingly praised Commissioner Paul Tagliabue’s stance against steroids, saying Tagliabue “made it so the fat man had a chance. And his December appearance before Stickney, who called him “a danger to the community,” was no place for the broadcast verve or confident comic demeanor that made him a favorite of NFL reporters. Indeed, the 2000 season found Newton on ESPN Radio as an NFL commentator, and he did college football commentary for BET television last season.īut that was temporary. That seemed to equip him for a future in broadcasting. 4 that the prospect of Cowboys friends standing up for him seems like a hopeful bounce from the bottom.Īfter 14 years in the NFL, 13 as a Cowboy and one final year with the Carolina Panthers, Newton retired in 1999 with a reputation as a jovial, plain-spoken big man. Newton’s fortunes have plummeted so far since Nov. Newton is scheduled for arraignment next month in Louisiana, Cedars said. “We have filed a motion to revoke his bond in our jurisdiction as well,” said Chester Cedars, assistant district attorney in St. Magistrate Judge Paul Stickney denied an initial motion for reconsideration of bond last week in Dallas, Rozan filed a supplement stating that character witnesses “including but not limited to” Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and former teammates Emmitt Smith, Troy Aikman and Michael Irvin would testify on Newton’s behalf and co-sign for his bond.
But his new attorney, Steven Jay Rozan, argues that sentencing guidelines for the amount of marijuana involved call for 41 months to 51 months.Īfter U.S. According to his detention order, he faces a 20-year prison sentence if convicted. He has been held there since mid-December without bond.įederal and state prosecutors in Texas and Louisiana charge that the 350-pound-plus former lineman was up to his weight in marijuana in two arrests within six weeks late last year. Newton, 40, was behind bars at a federal detention center in Seagoville, a southeast suburb of Dallas. For a six-time Pro Bowl guard who played on three Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl champions in the 1990s, Nate Newton had a lousy seat for the Super Bowl.