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Former NBA<\/a> player Tony Allen, most known for his time as one of the league’s top defensive players during his time with the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>, was arrested in Poinsett County, Arkansas, on drug possession charges, according to online court records<\/a>. Records show that Allen, 43, was booked into the Poinsett County Jail just after 2 p.m. on Wednesday and is facing two charges — one count of possession of less than two grams of a Schedule 1 or 2 drug and one count of possession of less than four ounces of a Schedule 4 drug.\u00a0<\/p>\n The arrest followed a traffic stop involving a vehicle driven by William Hatton, 33, with Allen as the passenger, according to The Associated Press<\/a>. A “strong odor of marijuana” was detected, and the vehicle was subsequently searched. Marijuana was found on Allen and a cigarette box with a “white powdery substance,” later identified as cocaine, was also located, according to a police report. Hatton confessed to possessing drug paraphernalia containing marijuana during the stop, per Action News 5 in Memphis<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The 14-year NBA veteran began his career with the Boston Celtics<\/a> in 2004 after being selected with the No. 25 overall pick. Allen played six seasons for the Celtics and won a title in 2008, but was best known for his time in Memphis. He played for the Grizzlies from 2010 to 2017 and earned six All-Defensive team selections — three first-team honors (2012, 2013, 2015) and three second-team honors (2011, 2016, 2017). Allen finished his career playing one season for the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a>.<\/p>\n Allen had his No. 9 retired by the Grizzlies in March, joining longtime teammates Marc Gasol<\/a> and Zach Randolph in receiving that honor. He has also dealt with off-court issues, including pleading guilty in August 2023 in\u00a0a federal fraud case involving NBA health insurance<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Former NBA player Tony Allen, most known for his time as one of the league’s top…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3795],"tags":[7,294,293,177,4070,6,7271,60018,60003],"class_list":{"0":"post-391614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-memphis-grizzlies","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-grizzlies","10":"tag-memphis","11":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","12":"tag-memphisgrizzlies","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-tony-allen","15":"tag-tony-allen-arrest","16":"tag-tony-allen-arrested"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115500166067574063","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}