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Police Chief Apologizes Over Pacman Jones' Mistaken Arrest

Oct 12, 2010 – 11:16 AM
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Adam "Pacman" Jones can take some solace from his mistaken arrest on Sunday -- an apology from the Cincinnati police chief.

Chief Tom Streicher admitted that the police department made a mistake and that Jones did nothing wrong, calling the episode unfortunate.

"Quite honestly, there was a mistake on the part of the police department here," Chief Tom Streicher said. "I just want to be emphatic about this: Mr. Jones did absolutely nothing wrong."

According to police, Jones drove his vehicle over a downtown curb to avoid another vehicle or pedestrian, and was released with a citation or charges after questioning. But for Jones, whose troubled history is well-known to NFL fans, images of him in cuffs being detained spread on the internet fast, leading to wrong assumptions that Jones was in hot water again.

"It was a stupid thing that deprived him of his liberty and embarrassed him and humiliated him in front of everybody," Thomas Hunter said, Jones' agent, said. "Everybody saw him being arrested."
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