TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Buccaneers running back Lionel Gates was arrested and charged with hitting a pregnant woman in the face and pushing her into a wall during an argument.The 25-year-old player was being held Friday with no bond, jail records said.Gates kicked in the front door of Peggie Lavender's apartment Thursday night, destroyed two televisions and two doors, put a hole in the bedroom wall and assaulted her, a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report said. He was arrested later at his apartment in the same complex.Gates was charged with burglary of a dwelling, aggravated battery of a pregnant woman and criminal mischief. A call to his lawyer, Ken Sarnoff, was not immediately returned."Charges such as those facing Lionel Gates are taken seriously by the Buccaneers organization," the team said in a statement Friday. "We plan to meet with Lionel as soon as possible after which we will deal with this matter appropriately."Gates was signed by Tampa Bay in September after being released by Buffalo. He played at Louisville and was drafted by the Bills in 2005.___________________________________________People like this should be locked away and throw away the key. This is sick, disgusting and I would love to get a piece of this guy.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (XxGhostxX @ Mar 31 2007, 09:00 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What's not to believe? lol. You think the police would make this up?</div>I read it in the Sun-Times this morning, so it's got to be true.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (GotSkillz92 @ Mar 31 2007, 09:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>How do the Bucs get more and more pathetic? They're not the Bengals.</div>He's a Falcons fan, what did you expect? lolBut this one Buccaneer is pathetic.
Lol, if it's a Saint, Panthers or Buc. Hell, even a Eagle player they get more pathetic.It's just the art of hatred in sports
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (DevinHester23 @ Mar 31 2007, 03:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What if this were a Bears player?</div>Then they'd be a bunch of thugs like Tank Johnson. :whistling:
If it were a Bears player, then I would call the PLAYER sick and pathetic. But not the team as a whole.
Because I don't care about the Bears. Lol. I HATE The Aint's, Bucs, Panties and Eagles. Everyone else, I'm "Blah" about.
Who gives a shit if he's in the NFL. No one makes topics about people that do that on the regular. Just because he has a contract with a professional sport, which he probably will never touch the playing field anyway, means that it's like 100x more offensive? God damn, he's a dumbass for doing it, but why does it matter that he's in the NFL?
He's not even known to a single damn person, so what's the diff? I've never heard of the scrub before, at least I don't recall.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Brooksie5 @ Apr 4 2007, 03:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I think I heard of him at Louisville. Not sure if this is that guy though.</div>He is. I thought Gates was still a Bill before I read this
