Ex-Raiders cornerback Damon Arnette has admitted to being behind the wheel of an SUV that crashed and injured a woman named Yanet Casique after initially lying about the incident. The Daily Mail reports that David was caught on a camera lying that he wasn’t the person driving the SUV that crashed and injured Yanet.
Here are the details;
Damon Arnette was caught on police body-camera admitting that he had in fact been behind the wheel of the SUV that crashed into Yanet Casique’s white sedan in the Nevada city in October 2020, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
Arnette’s friend Jonathon Washington was filmed during the same incident sat in the driver seat of the car claiming that he had actually been behind the wheel.
Meanwhile, the brother of Henry Ruggs – another ex-Raiders star awaiting trial for a 156mph crash that killed another driver – turned up at the scene afterwards to meddle with the investigation.
Kevontae Ruggs could be seen asking cops not to write the incident down as an accident, and even offered them a Raiders shirt in return for not doing so.
He was filmed saying: ‘Just for the purposes right here,’ said Ruggs, who was not in Arnette’s car when the crash initially took place. ‘Can you please not put the fact that he was in an accident in the paperwork?’
Kevontae Ruggs also tried to bribe the lead investigating cop a jersey to cover the entire incident.
‘I promise you, I’ll get you the jersey today,’ Ruggs could be heard telling the officer in body came footage released this weekend by Henderson Police. The officer can be seen declining the offer in the video.
‘Not as in — you know what I’m saying — like a bribe right here or nothing like that,’ Ruggs added. ‘A chance to give.’
Arnette, who is now a free agent due to continuous legal troubles, and three other people, including Kevontae’ Ruggs – the little brother of former Raider player – Henry Ruggs III – were seen covering up the incident on October 14, 2020.
They were seen doing so by witnesses nearby, who claimed to having seen Arnette switching seats with another man before emergency medical services’ arrival.
Hours following the wreck, Arnette confessed to police that he had been the one that caused the incident. He added that he never asked Washington, whom he refers to as his ‘brother’, to lie for him in an interview with officers at Henderson Police Department’s headquarters.
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