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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: Darryl Strawberry kidnapped | ||||
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| TeenWeek what's a status? | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 1:13 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | What a bunch of B'S this isStrawberry's friends report kidnapping call from espn.com: TAMPA, Fla. – Friends of Darryl Strawberry say they received a phone call over the weekend from a man who said the former Yankees star has been kidnapped and is being held for $50,000 ransom. St. Petersburg, Fla., police were given the information from Ronald Dock, who is a New York Yankees drug counselor. Dock says he and another Strawberry friend didn't know the caller, who told them that Strawberry also had been pistol-whipped. Police passed the information on to the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office. A sheriff's spokeswoman declined to comment. Strawberry, 39, hasn't been seen since Thursday night, when he disappeared from the residential drug treatment center where he is serving two years of house arrest on drug and solicitation charges. It was the second time he has left the facility and the third time he has violated the terms of his 1999 sentence on drug possession and solicitation of prostitution. Authorities said Sunday that Strawberry could end up in jail if and when he surfaces from his latest break from house arrest. A spokeswoman for the Hillsborough County State Attorney's Office said prosecutors will push to have Strawberry sent to prison, saying the multiple chances he's had for freedom on the outside have not worked. "We were seeking prison time on his last violation," said Pam Bondi, an assistant state attorney. "We certainly haven't changed our opinion." According to a report in Sunday's New York Post, Dwight Gooden and two friends have been searching drug-infested areas around the Bay area for the missing slugger. Gooden, who announced his retirement from baseball earlier this week, is a recovering drug addict who grew up in Tampa. The report said Gooden was looking for Strawberry along with two friends, Ray Negron and Dock. "We were riding around – we went to one spot in St. Petersburg that Ron knew about," Gooden told The Post. "Ray got out of the car, but I didn't. I knew a few spots in Tampa where we went, but we didn't see anyone who had seen Straw." Negron, who currently works for the Cleveland Indians, was a mentor to Gooden and Strawberry when both played with the Yankees. "We talked to several drug dealers," Negron told The Post. "Nobody has seen him, but everybody knows he's out on the street." Sunday, Joe Papy, the head of the Florida Department of Corrections' regional office, said there still was no word on Strawberry's whereabouts. At the treatment facility, a counselor who declined to comment on Strawberry because it would be a violation of federal privacy laws, said those who know him are "as concerned as everybody else" about him. Besides battling his addiction, Strawberry is also undergoing treatment for colon cancer. Even workers at local medical examiners offices said Sunday they were keeping an eye out for Strawberry. He last left the center in October for a drug binge with a friend. But that time, Strawberry turned himself in the next morning. The fact that he has been gone for days now worries those close to him. After Strawberry's October arrest, prosecutors sought to send him to prison, telling Circuit Court Judge Florence Foster that Strawberry was repeatedly violating the breaks that had been given him and had faced no punishment for his actions. Prosecutors recommended sending Strawberry to the North Florida Reception Center, a prison in Lake Butler, about 160 miles north of Tampa, which has a hospital where Strawberry could get cancer treatments. Instead, Strawberry was kept in jail for less than a month and fitted with an electronic monitor. At the time, he said he felt having the monitor would help keep him from straying. Bondi said in light of the new violation, prosecutors aren't likely to change their minds. "He was given every opportunity and he has all the resources," Bondi said.  Teens, making the world a better place to live in. | ||||
OA.com's Bodyguard Anger problem? What anger problem? I hate the fucking mud! USA | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 2:07 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | $50,000!!!!! I fucking told them $500,000, not $50,000! Son of a bitch, I'm getting ripped off here!   "What are you speaking? German Brian? German! Jermaine! Jermaine Jackson! Jackson 5! TITO!" My graduated adoptee: BACKDOOR BUNNY Proud graduate of NJDude's School of Rock | ||||
| Rommel | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 2:09 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | It was Pedro Guerrero . well yeah ! Jeder oder Keiner, Alles oder Nichts | ||||
| Opie696 G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Soldier of Fortune Spec Ops Division | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 2:14 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | No see i beleave that it was J. Cuz he called me up a few days ago and said,"O, im gonna kidnapp Strawberry and demand the cure for encephilitis." "I shoot people that don't get it." | ||||
| mother shucker | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 2:47 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | You know whats really sad? I could not give a flying fuck about that crack head. Him and Gooden should rot in hell. I shucked it, and shucked it, and shucked it, i'm quite the mother shucker! | ||||
| Mi1o Yambag | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 3:16 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Shucker...I dont give a shit about Strawbery either, buts what your problem with Gooden? True, he had drug problems as well, but at least, unlike Strawbery, he straightened himself out and got his life back on track. Smoke Weed Everyday | ||||
| Opie696 G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Soldier of Fortune Spec Ops Division | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 4:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | Milo i somewhat i agree with you somewhat but the thing with Strawberry is that when he got cancer he wanted to overcome it but when it came back a second time he just said the hell with it and gave up. "I shoot people that don't get it." | ||||
| Dan-O | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 4:38 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | Couldn't care less about Straw... but this twist is hilarious! Don't we all love weird celebrity stories? Did Daaaaa-ryyyyl mastermind this? Are the calls just a prank? Was he kidnapped by drug dealers or mobsters who he owes money to? Will he lam it to South America? Imagine the possibilities... :)  "Art isn't easy" | ||||
| white shorts | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 7:35 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | well....they found strawberry. he is in a hospital somewhere in florida. the attornies in florida are trying to get him to serve jail time too.  | ||||
| Tequila Fez claims this land in the name of Portugal! Why worry about the train if it never makes it around the tracks?? IrishAlkey wuz here!!! | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 7:56 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Jan. 01 | I heard is was chipping golf balls with OJ in Chicago. But not sure about the source? | ||||
King Shit *board owner* | posted on 04-02-2001 @ 8:56 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01 | Drudge Junior is reporting that Strawberry is actually the Lindbergh baby....go figure ~Matt/Froy from Jersey Official Protector of Gay Marco & SwampJunk...if he ever decides to post. | ||||
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