Rehab apparently isn’t working if you get arrested twice while you are in the program.
Former NFL and USC quarterback Todd Marinovich, who spent most of the past 18 months in the desert for drug addition rehabilitation, is back in jail after being arrested in Orange County last week.
Marinovich, who got local attention in September by playing for the desert’s developmental football team, the SoCal Coyotes, was arrested March 19 and released after posting bail, according to Orange County jail records. He was arrested again March 23 and remains in custody at the Central Men’s Jail in Santa Ana — the same city where he was a high school football star at Mater Dei.
No further details on why he was arrested were available, but Marinovich was in the middle of a two-year probation sentence handed last March after his notorious August 2016 arrest where he was found naked wandering in a stranger’s backyard in Irvine with a paper bag full of drugs and syringes and his wallet.
Marinovich starred at quarterback for two years at USC, leading the Trojans to a Rose Bowl win over Michigan in 1990 after being named the UPI and Sporting News college freshman of the year for the 1989 season.
He was drafted in the first round (No. 24) by the Los Angeles Raiders. But he flamed out in the pros, mostly because of his drug addiction. He played in a total of eight games over two years, completing 104 of 205 passes for 1,345 yards, 8 TDs, 9 INTs.
He won’t be released until May 3rd.