There is some bad news on the doorstep this week about former NBA swingman Tony Allen.<\/p>\n
Allen was arrested on Wednesday during a traffic stop in Poinsett County, Ark., K8 News in Arkansas reports<\/a>. The 43-year-old was reportedly a passenger in a vehicle that was traveling northbound on Interstate 555 near Payneway before it was pulled over by police.<\/p>\n Police are said to have detected a strong odor of marijuana upon approaching the vehicle and proceeded to initiate a search. Allen was reportedly found with a package of marijuana on him and a white powdery substance was also discovered inside of a cigarette box in Allen\u2019s passenger seat. The powdery substance is said to have later tested positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n Both Allen and the driver of the vehicle, William Hatton, were arrested and have since been charged with possession of meth or cocaine (less than 2 grams) and possession of marijuana (less than 4 ounces). Hatton is also facing additional charges of possession of drug paraphernalia (after reportedly being found with a separate package of marijuana) and improper lane change.<\/p>\n You can read K8 News\u2019 full report on the situation here<\/a>. <\/p>\n Allen played in the NBA from 2004-18. Best known for his elite perimeter defense, Allen won a championship with the Boston Celtics and went on to make six All-Defensive Teams with the Memphis Grizzlies. Allen also later played for the New Orleans Pelicans before retiring after the 2017-18 season.<\/p>\n But ever since his playing career ended, Allen has had previous run-ins with the law too. In 2021, Allen was one of several notable ex-NBA players arrested on federal charges for allegedly defrauding the NBA\u2019s Health and Welfare Benefit Plan out of millions<\/a>. Eventually though, Allen got good news on that case in the form of a light sentence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is some bad news on the doorstep this week about former NBA swingman Tony Allen. Allen was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,6,11,7271],"class_list":{"0":"post-391815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-playoffs","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-nba-playoffs","11":"tag-tony-allen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115500779343955943","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391815","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=391815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}