Bills' Marshawn Lynch Arrested on Gun Charge

by TFleming | February 16, 2009 at 10:34 am

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Buffalo Bills running back Marshawn Lynch was arrested Wednesday night in southern California on a weapons charge. The arresting officers said they approached a 2006 Mercedes-Benz to find Lynch and two other men with a loaded firearm. He was released that night on a $35 000 bail.

Lynch's arrest marked the second time in less than a year that he has been in trouble with the law.

In June, Lynch pleaded guilty to a traffic violation and admitted speeding off in his Porsche Cayenne SUV after striking a female pedestrian near Buffalo's downtown bar district on May 31. The victim, a 27-year-old woman from suburban Toronto, was treated and released from the hospital later that day after sustaining a bruised hip and cut to her thigh that required seven stitches.

Lynch was the Bills' first-round pick out of California in 2007. He replaced injured running back Chris Johnson and played his first Pro Bowl earlier this month.

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