Dez Bryant Mentioned In 2011 Police Report
(CBS) Cowboys receiver Dez Bryant was mentioned mentioned in a 2011 police report detailing an incident at a Walmart in Lancaster, Texas, the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport reported Thursday.
No charges resulted from the incident, but speculation continues to spread about Bryant's role in the ordeal.
Police arrived on the scene after an unknown caller reported seeing a female "being dragged from one vehicle to another" by a male, the report stated.
A DeSoto Police officer arrived on scene and was met by a Walmart security guard. The guard says he responded to the reported disturbance only to find an unoccupied 2011 Mercedes-Benz, which was registered to Bryant.
A few minutes later, a black Cadillac Escalade, also registered to Bryant, arrived with two males — Christopher Mitchell and Carl King. Those men say the alleged victim had asked them to pick up "her" Mercedes.
While police were questioning the two men, a third vehicle arrived on scene. Bryant and the alleged victim, identified as 27-year old Ilyne Nash, arrived in a white Bentley.
Nash told police that she got into an argument with a man named Alex Penson, who she left the parking lot with. She had then called Bryant to pick her up from a friend's house.
The two returned to the scene at the request of King.
After Bryant corroborated the story to police, the officer decided that no offense had taken place.
Video of the incident -- assuming it exists -- has yet to be released publicly. The Cowboys and Bryant haven't been able to come to terms on a long-term contract, and the team has yet to use the franchise tag on him. Some believe the team is waiting to find out more details as to whether Bryant has any involvement in the video.
ProFootballTalk's Mike Florio joined the Spiegel and Goff Show on Thursday morning to fill everyone in on what we know as fact and what may await.
"What we know now is there was an incident in July 2011 in a Walmart parking lot in Lancaster, Texas," Florio said. "When police arrived on the scene, there was a Mercedes registered to Dez Bryant that had a door open. Police were even called in the first place because someone saw a woman being dragged from one car to another, from the Mercedes to another car. The Mercedes was registered to Dez Bryant. An Escalade registered to Dez Bryant showed up. A couple guys in a car said, 'We were coming to get the Mercedes.' And then a Bentley shows up with Dez Bryant and the alleged victim, and the alleged victim says, 'I wasn't assaulted or injured in any way. I was in an argument with a guy named Alex Penson.' So there's an inconsistency there when when the person who calls police says the woman being dragged from one car to another and she says she wasn't being assaulted in any way. At a minimum, that's inconsistent. Because someone being dragged from one car to another to the point that you call police, that was suggest an assault is taking place.
"And then the other hole in the police report -- where's the other car? Where's the car that the woman was dragged to? Is it still there? Was it a different car? And how much light would the surveillance video that inevitably was created by Wal-Mart cameras shed on the topic? Nothing int he police report suggests the police officer decided to go inspect the surveillance cameras.
"That feels like it's the next step, that there's a video out there that sheds light on exactly what happened and may fill in some of these gaps from this incident report that all got started because was being dragged from a car registered to Dez Bryant."
