Strawberry was doing coke (big surprise)
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Strawberry tells probation officer he was doing cocaine By VICKIE CHACHERE ***ociated Press Writer April 3, 2001 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Darryl Strawberry told his probation officer he spent the four days he was missing doing cocaine with a female friend and armed men who took his jewelry and abandoned him in a motel room.
In a report to the judge who will decide if the former baseball star will go to prison, Florida probation officials said Tuesday that Strawberry tested positive for cocaine use and violated the terms of his house arrest in his four-day absence from a drug rehab center.
The report came as Strawberry remained in a psychiatric ward at St.
Joseph's Hospital while doctors evaluated him. Under arrest for violating his probation, he will be sent to the Hillsborough County Jail and held without bail once doctors declare him mentally stable. The probation report is the first official accounting of Strawberry's Thursday night disappearance from the drug treatment center where he was serving two years' house arrest.
Strawberry told his probation officer that he was picked up at the center by a woman from an Alcoholics Anonymous program named Beverly, who was supposed to take him to the meeting. ''... Instead she began smoking crack cocaine and he couldn't resist the temptation,'' probation officer Shelley Tomlinson wrote in her report. ``He said she took him to a nearby motel where there were a total of five men who had guns and took his jewelry.'' Strawberry said they continued to use cocaine until Friday, when the men -- who are not identified -- decided it was time to leave. They rode around town, bought more drugs and drove to a motel in Orlando, the report said.
Strawberry is additionally alleged to have violated probation on Feb. 28 when he went to a state driver's license office to picked up an application for a hardship license. Strawberry said he needs to regain his driving privileges because it's too hard to find someone to take him to therapy meetings and an unspecified job. Joe Ficarrotta, Strawberry's attorney, was not immediately available for comment on the probation report. Earlier in the day, Ficarrotta said he was relieved that Strawberry was located.
Neither the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office nor Strawberry's attorney know how long Strawberry will be at St. Joseph's. ``It's a tough position for the judge to be in,'' Ficarrotta said. ``Whether he relapses one time or 10 times, it's the same thing. It's whether you fight drug addiction by putting people in prison or do the right thing and get them the medical treatment they need.'' Meanwhile, Strawberry's friends rallied around the former slugger. In addition to his legal troubles, Strawberry also is undergoing an aggressive, experimental treatment for colon cancer. ``He wants to get himself clean, he wants to go on and live a normal life like everyone else,'' said Mark Kennedy, who once shared an apartment with Strawberry at the Tampa drug treatment center. ``If he's told me once, he's told me 50 times: `I wish I wasn't who I am.' He says he wishes he was a regular guy.'' Strawberry disappeared from Health Care Connection, where he was sent on drug possession and solicitation-of-prostitution charges. He also was on probation for a misdemeanor charge of leaving the scene of an accident stemming from a September collision caused when he was driving under the influence of pain killers. Strawberry resurfaced Monday when two friends went to Daytona Beach to get him and check him into the hospital. It was not clear from the probation report how Strawberry got to Daytona Beach, two hours northeast of Orlando.
One of those ***ociates, Ray Negron, a Cleveland Indians consultant, said he visited Strawberry Tuesday. ``He's doing better today,'' Negron said. ``He's doing OK and he's getting the care that he needs.'' Negron said he has been fielding telephone calls from former teammates and friends who are concerned about Strawberry. Among them were Indians second baseman Robert Alomar and pitcher Bartolo Colon.
teerio tee...@aol.com
I predict November 7th, 2001 that this Strawberry will finally fall off the vine.
daydrm ...@aol.comandgetit (Rina J. )
Wow, I was kinda close when I said that he went out for drugs and was kidnapped by the drug dealers. ~~Pete Sampras: In a cl*** all his own~~ "and he thought he heard the echoes of a pennywhistle band, and the laughter from a distant caravan"
laaran ...@aol.comnoshit (Spyder)
He says he wishes he was a regular If he was a regular guy he'd be doing time - hard time - for all his shenanigans. The only thing keeping him from doing a bit in Rykers is his celebrity.
Spyder you can't dope fiend and old dope fiend Keeper of Michael Vartan and Mitchell Whitfield
Sunny mash...@facstaff.wisc.edu
Users should not be sent to prison. JMHO.
Bird Lady avianat...@yahoo.com
Agreed.
bel
sols ...@aol.comxxxx (ZoomZoom)
And the fact that he's in Tampa.
Sandy - sorry
lastangry ...@webtv.net
That would be Riker's (Island) and.while I have little sympathy for Strawbwerry, sending him to prison would accomplish nothing. That is NOT the answer for someone using drugs.
Dope fiend ???!!!!
Lam
jlaszcsc ...@aol.com (Jlaszcsc222)
i beg to differ....perhaps 3 years in solitary in prison, and away from general population could have cleaned him up.....too late for him now - he's had too many chances.....what a loser......
j.
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