According to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
Marcus Solo was the one who called Kirkland police, and when police
came to the scene, he had blood on his forehead and knees, and a bruised
eye. Hope solo then emerged from the house, intoxicated and with a
laceration on her elbow. She did not cooperate with police and told her
brother not to say anything. When police swept the house, they found
eight intoxicated people, a woman in the kitchen with a hip injury, and
Stevens on the floor of an upstairs bedroom, claiming that he was
sleeping, not hiding.
Stevens had blood on his cheek and his shirt. He admitted that he had
been arguing with Solo, and since police have to make an arrest when
there is a domestic violence call, Stevens was arrested and charged with
fourth-degree assault.
After Stevens' release, Daniels reported that -- if possible -- the situation was about to get even stranger.
"Solo did not speak to media," Daniels tweeted. "There are multiple
indications she will be marrying Jerramy Stevens tonight ... Court
documents, and Bridemaids Dresses."
We're not sure how YOUR wedding day went, but it probably (hopefully) didn't look anything like this.
It may be a while before all the facts are unearthed, but Stevens has
passed through the last decade-and-a-half in a haze of criminal
confrontations and eventual escape routes based on his athletic ability.
He was charged with felony assault in high school, violated the terms
of his home confinement with a marijuana charge, and was eventually able
to plead that charge out to misdemeanor assault and time served.
You see, the University of Washington had a rising star on its hands.
In 2000, Stevens was not charged in an alleged rape that still burns a
lot of people familiar with the incident. Then-King County prosecutor
Norm Maleng, who had a history of letting football players off with
slaps on the wrist in potential criminal situations, said that there was
"insufficient evidence" to charge Stevens.
Maryann Parker, a 14-year veteran of the Seattle Police Department at that time, was the investigating officer.
"I thought he should have been charged," Parker told the Seattle Times.
"I think most people in the Police Department thought he should have
been charged. From the police perspective, I think there was
overwhelming evidence that a crime had occurred. And then I think we
should have left it to a jury to decide. I think we just felt, in our
unit and in the Police Department as a whole, that this case was handled
differently. And we felt it was because he was a University of
Washington football star."
Stevens wasn't done with his college antics -- in May of 2001, he
slammed his pickup truck into the side of a retirement home, drove away,
and tried to lie about the incident when he was caught.
This preferential treatment didn't stop when Stevens became an NFL
player. If anything, it became more prevalent. Selected in the first
round by the Seattle Seahawks in the 2002 NFL draft, Stevens faced a
litany of DUI and drug charges throughout his career with the Seahawks
and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Perhaps more disturbing was the general sense
among those familiar with Stevens' time in Seattle that he got away with
things -- traffic stops, lack of effort and preparation in his
profession, property damage -- that others would have had to answer for.
Stevens was out of the NFL after the 2010 season, but trouble seems
to follow him wherever he goes. In that sense, Tuesday's bit of insanity
came as no surprise.