After Matt Barnes was involved in a recent altercation at a nightclub it appears that police may be getting close to arresting Matt Barnes. According to reports Barnes and teammate Demarcus Cousins have been under investigation for their involvement in the fight that took place. A police source released the following statement via nydailynews.
“They’ve got enough to charge Bares with a assault on a woman. It will probably be a misdemeanor assualt on one of the females who was pushed or choked or sustained some sort of injury. She’s obviously cooperating.
“They looked at several people inside the club. There were some people struck by bottles but that didn’t seem to come from the players. There was a little bit of a mini free for all.”
Jasmine Besiso and her boyfriend Myrone Powell filed a federal lawsuit against Barnes and Cousins on Thursday. The 26 year old Besiso claims that Barnes choked her unconscious. Powell had two black eyes and his lawyer claims that Cousins sucker punched him in the side of the head, and then was stomped and hit by Barnes and other members of his entourage.
According to the same police source charges will not likely be charged against Cousins. This definitely is a messy situation, but the one thing that appears may happen is Barnes getting arrested in the near future.