…due to an incident with the same girl that was involved in his last arrest. Via KTBS.com…
Professional basketball player Stromile Swift has been arrested in Shreveport on stalking charges involving an ex-girlfriend.Swift had been arrested in February for an incident involving the same woman.
Shreveport police said they arrested the 31-year-old Swift about 9:40 p.m. Thursday after officers were called to a domestic dispute on the west side of the city. Police said a woman told them she had been arguing with Swift and he was following her in a vehicle as she tried to get away from him.
Patrol officers got a description of the vehicle and eventually arrested Swift without incident in the 3300 block of Ivy Lane.
Police said they found a shotgun and a handgun in Swift’s vehicle.
The ex-girlfriend was not injured, police said.
Swift, of the 9500 block of Stonehaven Drive, was booked on a charge of stalking and later released on bond.
Swift was arrested last February on aggravated assault charges. Police said they were investigating a report of vandalism at the 28-year-old woman’s southwest Shreveport residence when Swift showed up there with a gun.
Swift played at Fair Park High School and LSU before being drafted as the second overall pick in the 2000 NBA draft. He played in the NBA for nine years and now plays in the Chinese Basketball Association.
A shotgun and a handgun? Jesus Stro, you’re going to wind up in jail if you aren’t careful.
I have no idea what this girl did to Stromile, but I’ve always been under the impression that he’s pretty mild-mannered (it was a problem on the basketball court)… so I’m baffled. Hopefully he gets some help or something… he’s clearly having a tough time getting over whatever the hell happened between he and this woman, and even though he’s wrong for following her around with weapons in the car, I feel bad for him. You’ve got to be pretty goddamn upset to be doing some sh!t like that. I really hope he’s able to get past this and get his personal life together so he doesn’t end up broke and/or in prison.
Every once in a while I’ll google Stro’s name to see if he’s joined another CBA team or something (contrary to what the article says, he didn’t play in China last season), but all I ever find are reports of my dude being arrested. It makes me sad… I always hope to see him playing basketball again. He’s only 31, and he’s only a few years removed from playing minutes in the NBA. It’s a troubling story, really… I mean, it’s got to be hard when it seems that you have everything you could ever want, yet you still aren’t happy. Most people aren’t going to feel any sympathy for a former NBA player with millions of dollars to his name, but this story is nothing but more proof that money can’t fix everything.
