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MINXX SHOOTER SAYS PACMAN FRAMED HIM
Posted by Mike Florio on May 1, 2008, 9:11 a.m.
In our most recent post, we talked about the money that Cowboys cornerback Pacman Jones can earn under his new four-year contract.

But he has to be reinstated before he gets paid. And if the guy whom Jones fingered as the trigger man outside the Minxx strip club in Vegas circa February 2007 is to be believed, Jones might not see a dollar of it in 2008, and perhaps beyond.

Arvin Edwards, in a phone interview with Nashville’s NewsChannel 5, claims that Jones has framed him.

“I’m not the person who done this,” Edwards said. “I’ve been shot before. I know how it feels.”

Edwards also denies seeking money from Jones after the fact for “services rendered.”

“I definitely didn’t receive no $15,000,” Edwards said. “I definitely didn’t extort nobody out of no money.” (Technically, then, Edwards is saying that he did extort somebody out of some money, but we don’t think that’s what he means.)

So who did the shooting? “[Jones] knows they name,” Edwards said. “He knows they street name. He needs to tell on them instead of trying to put this on me when he knows I didn’t do this and he know I never met him before and he know he don’t know me and I don’t know him.”

Edwards claims that Jones is singling him out because Jones wanted to cement his plea deal with police and pave the way for returning to the NFL. “I don’t have no reason to lie,” Edwards said.

And that’s where Edwards lost us. Because he clearly has a reason to lie. Because if he shot those folks, he’s going away for a long, long time.

Regardless, Edwards’ contention highlights the mess through which Commissioner Roger Goodell must wade in attempting to decide whether Jones is worthy of returning to the NFL. Jones now claims that the shooter inadvertently concluded that Jones ordered a hit. We’ve got a feeling that Jones told Goodell a very different version when they met prior to the imposition of that one-year suspension. If so, we might eventually see a pointed letter from Goodell explaining to Jones that he has yet to qualify for the privilege of playing pro football.

The bigger problem is that, if Jones is the star witness for the prosecution in the case of Nevada v. Edwards, the changes of a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt are slim, which means that there might ultimately be no criminal sanctions imposed for the incident that left Urbanski paralyzed.

CantonLegend

as bad as it woulda been for the saints team....i might've liked it cuz out here in Ohio there is nothing on the saints....the most exciting thing about the saints here is some candles that i bought from the flea market that some guy from new orleans brought here....i wish something would happen so they could get nation wide recognition....otherwise im out of it

Memnoch_TP

Bad for the Saints? As a citizen of the GNO area, I would be appalled if the organization brought Pac-Man into the community. Screw the team. If I die in a strip club, the last thing I wanna see is bare, bouncing boobies, NOT stray bullets prom Pac-Man's posse.

I have been described as corrupt, and that was by the people who love me. I have been one of the things that go bump in the night, and the people who only come out at night are mostly the people I call friends. And brother, if I'm uncomfortable with one man's presence in my city, he needs go and only a fool would argue that point with me.

"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." -- Douglas Adams.

hagan714

What a waste of talent. He could be the best CB in the NFL if he would stop messing around.

QBREES9

Capital L ooser, just a waste.