Mark Sanchez, a Fox Sports activities analyst and former NFL quarterback, has now been charged with a felony following a stabbing incident in Indianapolis over the weekend that left him injured.
Throughout a press convention on Monday with Marion County prosecutor Ryan Mears and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Division Chief Chris Bailey, Mears introduced that Sanchez was dealing with a degree 5 felony battery leading to severe bodily harm cost. The brand new cost carries a possible sentence of as much as six years in jail.
Sanchez was initially dealing with misdemeanor fees — for alleged battery with harm, illegal entry of a motorcar and public intoxication — however as soon as they discovered extra in regards to the sufferer’s present medical situation, Mears mentioned “it grew to become clear to us that further fees wanted to be filed.”
The Related Press reported {that a} police affidavit alleges Sanchez, smelling of alcohol, aggressively approached a 69-year-old truck driver who had backed right into a lodge’s loading docks in downtown Indianapolis. This allegedly led to a confrontation between them outdoors the automobile at round 12:30 a.m. Saturday, prompting the truck driver to drag out a knife to defend himself.
“We are actually speaking about individuals combating over a parking house and/or a dispute about the place persons are parking, and it resulted in somebody receiving simply extremely important injures,” Mears mentioned on Monday.
The Hollywood Reporter beforehand reported that each males acquired medical therapy, with Fox Sports activities PR sharing afterward Saturday that Sanchez was “recovering within the hospital in secure situation.” He remained hospitalized as of Monday morning.
The Related Press reported that the previous New York Jets quarterback was pepper-sprayed and stabbed a number of instances in the course of the incident and the truck driver was reduce on his cheek, in response to court docket information.
“This was a state of affairs that didn’t have to happen,” the prosecutor added. “The allegations contain a 38-year-old man changing into concerned in an altercation with a 69-year-old man who sustained important and really extreme accidents on account of that altercation.”
Authorities didn’t share whether or not the truck driver may also face fees.
THR has reached out to Fox Sports activities and Sanchez’s reps for remark.
The broadcaster was in Indianapolis for Sunday’s recreation between the Colts and Las Vegas Raiders.
THR lately spoke with Sanchez’s spouse, Perry Mattfeld, who stars reverse Glen Powell within the sports-comedy collection Chad Powers. On the time, she mentioned the previous NFL participant shared a few of his skilled perception with writers on the present. “Mark was positively capable of seek the advice of with me fairly a bit on a few of my strains,” Mattfeld mentioned. “I’ve to provide him some credit score; a few of his strains made it by way of my improv or issues that he had given me. (Laughs.) However he did spend a while within the writers room giving some perception not solely about his NFL profession, however faculty as effectively.”