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Former NBA guard Rajon Rondo was arrested on firearm and drug charges in rural Indiana over the weekend.
According to Indiana State Police , the 37-year-old two-time NBA champion is facing misdemeanor firearm, drug paraphernalia and marijuana charges after being pulled over for ‘traveling recklessly.’ When a trooper smelled marijuana, a search was initiating resulting in the discovery of the gun and drug paraphernalia, Indiana State Police spokesperson Sargeant Stephen Wheeles said in a statement.
The former Boston Celtics star is prohibited from carrying a firearm due to a 2022 no-contact order. Ashley Bachelor, Rondo’s ex-partner and mother of his children, filed the emergency protection order against him after he allegedly brandished a gun during an argument over their son.
In June of 2022, the two parties reached an agreement and a judge dismissed the peтιтion, but according to Wheeles, Rondo remains prohibited from possessing a firearm.
Rondo was booked and released after paying bond, according to the department. His first appearance in Jackson County Superior Court has yet to be scheduled.
Former NBA guard Rajon Rondo was arrested on firearm and drug charges in rural Indiana
Bachelor claimed Rondo ‘became enraged,’ prompting her to file for the EPO in Jefferson County (Kentucky) Family Court in 2022. She says in the EPO that Rondo was playing video games with their son when she asked the child to finish separating his laundry so she could wash the family’s clothes.
When the child got up to do so, Rondo ripped the video game console out of the wall, went downstairs, smashed a teacup plate, knocked over several water bottles and began yelling and cursing, she claimed. According to the EPO, Rondo then went outside and knocked over the trash cans, stomped on the landscaping lights and drove his car onto the lawn.
Bachelor then confronted Rondo, the EPO continued, to which he allegedly said: ‘You’re ᴅᴇᴀᴅ.’
After briefly leaving the house, Rondo came back and beat on a window with a gun. Bachelor said in the EPO that the player was yelling at the kids, asking them why they were scared of him while he had a gun in his hand.
Bachelor called former interim Louisville Metro Police chief Yvette Gentry, who eventually arrived at the house. However, the woman said Rondo wouldn’t allow Gentry inside. Bachelor said she locked herself in the house with the kids, and Gentry eventually told her Rondo had left and she had his gun.
Two days after the alleged incident occurred, a judge granted Bachelor the protective order. The judge ordered Rondo not to communicate and to stay at least 500 feet away from her.
In her EPO, Bachelor said she feared for her children’s safety and her own, adding that Rondo had been verbally abusive to their daughter and both physically and verbally abusive to their son.
Rajon Rondo appears with Ashley Bachelor in 2012, when he was with the Boston Celtics
In June of 2022, the two parties reached an agreement and a judge dismissed the peтιтion (pictured), but as WDRB reports, Rondo remains prohibited from possessing a firearm
Rondo (center right) alongside (from left) Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Kendrick Perkins
‘I am extremely fearful for my safety and for the safety of my children,’ she said. ‘Rajon has a history of volatile, erratic, explosive behavior. He is verbally, emotionally, and financially abusive. He physically hits our son and calls him names like ”p****” and accuses him of acting like a ‘b****.”
‘Rajon verbally ᴀssaults our daughter. He calls her names like ‘thot, b****, and d***head.’ Rajon has made several threats on my life, saying at various times he will shoot me or shoot up my car.’
The Louisville native played three seasons at Kentucky before being drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft in 2006 and subsequently playing nine seasons for the Celtics. He’d become a crucial starter and extraordinary defensive presence in Boston, where he’d win an NBA тιтle in 2008.
Rondo eventually bounced from the Dallas Mavericks to the Sacramento Kings, Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Pelicans and Los Angeles Lakers, for whom he’d win a second NBA тιтle in 2020. Rondo finished his career with stints in Atlanta, LA and Cleveland.
