11:35am: Police in Arlington, Texas say they found guns and a vape pen with THC oil in Prince’s car when they stopped him in May for an expired registration, according to Eric Chaloux of KSTP-TV (Twitter thread).
Possession of marijuana is illegal in Texas, and it also violates state law “to carry a gun while engaging in a criminal offense,” the police said.
8:33am: Timberwolves forward Taurean Prince was arrested on Thursday in Miami, according to several reports, including from KSTP in Minnesota and Chris Hine of The Star Tribune.
KSTP’s report indicates that Prince was booked into jail custody on Thursday evening in Miami-Dade County. According to Hine, Prince was arrested at Miami International Airport on a fugitive out-of-state warrant from Texas. The six-year NBA veteran was born in San Marcos, Texas, was raised in San Antonio, and attended Baylor for college.
Details are still sparse on the possible charges that Prince is facing. Andy Slater of Fox Sports 640 South Florida reported (via Twitter) that the Texas warrant was drug-related, but that has yet to be confirmed.
“We are aware of the alleged report regarding Taurean Prince and are in the process of gathering more information,” the Timberwolves said in a statement on Thursday.
Prince, 28, was a regular part of Minnesota’s rotation in 2021/22, averaging 7.3 PPG and 2.5 RPG in 69 games (17.1 MPG). He’s a solid, versatile defender, as well as a reliable floor spacer (.376 3PT% last season).
Prince had been on track for unrestricted free agency this summer, but the Timberwolves signed him to a two-year contract extension just before the new league year began. That deal includes a guaranteed base salary of $7.1MM for 2022/23, with $195K in likely incentives and another $870 in unlikely incentives for the coming season. The second year of the contract is non-guaranteed.
We’ll have to wait for additional information to get a real sense of how serious Prince’s legal situation is and whether it will affect his availability at all for the coming season.
i honestly forgot he existed
You missed 1 of the better playoff series of this past postseason. Minnesota is def a team to watch going forward
unfortunately yea i did miss that series due to personal conflict, but minnesota is definitely a team to watch i agree. love them, they’re my second favorite team behind my mavs and they’re definitely a sleeper contender
And now he will really disappear
He can bunk with Greiner
It has to be heavy for them to issue an extradite warrant. They want him badly for something
Yeah a lot of times warrants won’t even extradite within the same state, unless it’s a surrounding county. So yeah, I’d say it’s probably a big deal.
More likely they know he’ll make a very expensive bail. Money over everything
Can’t believe he managed to post the $2500 bail for getting pulled over with a vape pen!
Read the article bro
Which one? The one where he was pulled over an expired registration or the one where he was granted a $2500 in his first appearance in Miami-Dade court? Bro.
Ok nevermind that’s ridiculous. There’s no reason they should be snatching people from 2-3 states over for nonviolent charges. It’s not like he was hiding. Tbh they could have waited for him to have a game in Texas to try and take care of this
The way they described this it has to be either fentanyl or heroin. Or that’s what I’ve heard at least
that sucks. he’s gonna regret throwing his career away with that bs
Smh. Something sucks alright
It was weed vape… Should’ve known goofy Jesusland Texas would bust someone over weed vape….
Hm this likely is more serious than weed, although TX might be exercising its right to be like Russia…
Yeah, how barbaric are those Russians for preventing American junkies from contributing their values and cultural enrichment.
Yeah those Russkis totally has the right idea! Lock up all those dirty weed smoking hippies and throw away key! ‘Murica!
“Junkies” lmfao
Baylor players… Nevermind
Arlington, Russia
None of y’all were close, nor do you sound smart 8n any way.
Absurd to have an interstate warrant for WEED these days-including the BS enhancement for a firearm in trigger-happy Texas-but it’s pretty arrogant to wander around Arlington [or Moscow] with your gear: those are demonstrably hostile environments.
Particularly with an expired registration. Just asking to get stopped and then you’re screwed.
Silly charges, but no sympathy for Prince here.
Texas is a joke… Can’t have guns if you have some weed, but you can have them to kill anyone you please otherwise.. stupid state
I forgot Texas was goofy Jesus land where weed is “dA dEvILs lEtTuCe”…
What a scam #FreeTaureen
Lol about all you people whining that it’s just weed. Doesn’t matter that you think it’s stupid – if it’s against the law, don’t do it! Pretty easy. Entitled people who think the law doesn’t apply to them or they can do it anyway “because it’s just weed” deserve to get arrested. Go smoke it where it’s legal.
These aren’t mutually exclusive opinions. Prince can be in the wrong for not knowing the law, but on the same token, that doesn’t exonerate Texas from having dumb rules
The rules aren’t dumb
Then why can I carry a gun while drinking, but not when possessing weed? At least be consistent
Obv bc weed is the devil’s drug and Jesus had no problem making wine, so the bible says alcohol is ok… lol
Yes they are….
But Texas is
link to si.com
It was for THC oil and weed. BS Texas thing.
Probably didn’t like his Locs …..
Why does an NBA player need to drive around with a gun/guns?
2nd amendment rights.
Wait…..
If one has cash on hand, expensive jewelry or someone wants their nice ride. Most wealthy or celebrities have some form of security on hand.
Pro tip. Register your car if doing something illegal.
Try driving around with drugs AND firearms in your car in Europe or anywhere else in the world and see what happens when you get pulled over.
According to WADA, THC is a banned substance. This stuff has no place around professional athletes.
Maybe it’s time for the U.S. to reassess its society’s massive drug addiction problem.
This society has an alcohol addiction problem, a meth addiction problem, and perhaps tobacco and opiates as well.
Marijuana has never been shown in clinical studies to be addictive. However, if you allow that all of those things present societal problems when abused, perhaps you have some ground to stand on. Otherwise you are just spreading non factual biased opinions.
Those problems are not a matter of law but of behavior. This was stupid as hell, but honestly race plays a role in arrests, just as I am sure wealth will play a role in the judicial response. He can afford good attorneys and will get a slap on the wrist as any wealthy person would – if he were poor he would be sitting in jail awaiting trial for failure to post cash bail, and probably be incarcerated.
That’s some amateur BS only a stoner would spew.
THC is a neurotoxin. Medical studies have proven that frequent cannabis consumption results in severe mental health problems, such as anxiety and depression. There’s a reason why persons under the influence are not allowed to drive or operate machines.
Maybe spend some time in med school or working at a hospital to see for yourself that there’s no such thing as inconsequential drug abuse, no matter the substance.
Junkies will always argue in favor of their drug habit, I get it. But that doesn’t make them immune in regard to the inevitable consequences.
You know what’s also linked to severe mental health problems? Alcohol. I don’t have a father anymore because of it. But I’m sure the act of merely possessing weed is so much worse.
Either advocate for staunch regulation of all drugs or freedom of choice. I would argue for the latter, as you should only be concerned with the illegal actions committed as a consequence of drug use; not drug use in and of itself.
Not a junkie. Just an advocate for free will
Read again: “… there’s no such thing as inconsequential drug abuse, no matter the substance.”
Nowhere did I make the claim that weed is worse than alcohol. Nice straw man argument, though.
So you would also be ok with a law prohibiting the possession of alcohol?
Boooooo
You sound like a lot of fun.
If guns and drugs are your definition of “fun”, you better never leave the U.S.. That’s one of the reasons why U.S. Americans are despised as illiterate brutes by the rest of the world.
Moderation of any fun is definitely “fun”, and I have lived and currently overseas in multiple continents for over half my life as an American. I guess your definition of “fun” is playing cops on internet comments.
In other words: you’ve been to several U.S. military bases. That’s the maximum of foreign experience most U.S. Americans, claiming to have “traveled the world”, will ever enjoy. Which also explains why gun and drugs epitomize “having fun” in your universe.
Self-appointed detective too! I’m not associated with military, but thanks again for proving my point.
That’s silly. If one talk about brutes, in large cities in Germany and other European countries they drink like fish, have all night drug raves and have huge underground sex trafficking clubs for underaged prostitutes and beastiality. Not to mention their a big problem with people casually using the bathroom in public, on streets lined bars and cafés, that have to post undercover cops on this specific issue. Also, don’t forget about countries in southern Asia having massive problems with public sanitation, often because their people just don’t see it as a problem. America has its issues, no doubt, but your comments are an exaggerated comparison
Well, when it comes to gun violence, drugs and defecating in the streets, U.S. Americans are the undisputed world leaders.
The rest of your nonsensical drivel shows me that you’ve never made it to Europe or probably any other place outside the U.S., like most of your compatriots. Time to get a passport.
^^ Still pretending to be the smartest guy in the room
Reefer Madness really must have brainwashed Waldfee
If you aren’t having fun using drug you probably are just doing it wrong.
A black man with a gun carrying drugs in Texas? He should be counting his lucky stars that he’s even alive. Maybe they found out after the fact that he was driving his pregnant girlfriend to get an abortion and that he was a Democrat. I used to dream of retiring to the southern United States. Now I’m thinking some place safe and forward thinking like Iraq or Afghanistan. But honestly by the time I’m ready to retire in 15 years your civil war will probably have started anyway.
A vape pen with thc? Wow what a drug addict!!!
Accept, no. Here in NY you can smoke your weed pen anywhere in public. This is ridiculous how those authorities care more about the weed than the guns. Sounds like he’s only getting in trouble cuz you can’t have the guns when you have weed on you.
It’s funny how people in Texas and Florida can shoot any guns they want basically, can carry them around legally … but smoke a thc vape pen, oh hell no. So stupid. I’m not even against the guns, but my point is that they’re a lot more hazardous than some weed.