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Football star faces battery charge
Published October 1, 2005
LACOOCHEE - Weeks after a National Football League team cut him, former Pasco High School star Troy Hambrick was arrested Thursday, accused of choking his wife.
Hambrick, 28, was charged with domestic battery, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, which said he got into a dispute with his wife, Tyrhonda Deshane Grant, on Pine Products Road about 3 p.m. Thursday.
His wife was going to retrieve her car, according to a Sheriff's Office report, when Hambrick grabbed her and choked her. She told deputies she wanted her car, the report said, because she heard he was driving another woman around.
The deputy noted scratches on her neck and chest, the report said. Hambrick admitted to the altercation and was arrested despite protests by his wife.
Hambrick was booked into the county jail Thursday afternoon using his legal name, Troy Germain Grant.
He was held without bail until Friday, when a judge ordered him released and to have no contact with the victim.
Florida records show no previous arrests for Hambrick.
Lacoochee brothers Darren and Troy made the name Hambrick famous by helping the Pirates to a state high school football championship in 1992. The next year Troy Hambrick led the state in scoring with a county-record 222 points.
Both have endured their share of controversy since. Now both are out of the NFL.
Troy Hambrick was cut by the Arizona Cardinals on Aug. 22, potentially ending the 6-foot-1, 233-pound Lacoochee native's pro career after five seasons, four spent with the Dallas Cowboys. The running back totaled 2,179 yards and nine touchdowns in his career.
Hambrick told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2003 that he has fathered three children with three women but that he had dedicated his life to Christ and his new marriage. He and his longtime girlfriend wed July 1, 2003.
But he injured his foot at the end of the 2004 season, missed all of the Cardinals' voluntary offseason workouts this summer and was put on the physically unable to perform list in training camp. The team signed several veterans, endangering Hambrick's roster spot.
He told the Arizona Republic that he chose to spend the offseason with his large family in Lacoochee.
"I had a couple of family issues," he said. "It's hard being the only breadwinner, or the guy who is making that max amount of money to take care of the family. I'm away most of the year. It's hard to up and leave."
Darren, the elder brother, hasn't played since the 2002 season, when he was a Cleveland Browns linebacker. In October 2004 a judge lifted his probation from charges he twice cashed a $5,682.51 check from the Carolina Panthers in 2002.
Hambrick, 30, also is a potential witness in two high-profile east Pasco murder cases. He helped arrange a meeting between Alfredie Steele Jr. and detectives before Steele was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Pasco sheriff's Lt. Charles "Bo" Harrison on June 1, 2003.
The ex-NFL linebacker also has been deposed in the murder case against longtime friend Eric Antwon "E-Love" Wilson, one of two men accused in the fatal Feb. 24, 2001, shooting of "Little" Ronnie Barber outside Rumors nightclub in Trilacoochee.
-- Times researcher Carolyn Edds contributed to this report.
Troy Hambrick, a former Pasco High football star, admitted to an altercation with his wife. He was arrested despite her protests.
By JAMAL THALJI
Published October 1, 2005
LACOOCHEE - Weeks after a National Football League team cut him, former Pasco High School star Troy Hambrick was arrested Thursday, accused of choking his wife.
Hambrick, 28, was charged with domestic battery, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office, which said he got into a dispute with his wife, Tyrhonda Deshane Grant, on Pine Products Road about 3 p.m. Thursday.
His wife was going to retrieve her car, according to a Sheriff's Office report, when Hambrick grabbed her and choked her. She told deputies she wanted her car, the report said, because she heard he was driving another woman around.
The deputy noted scratches on her neck and chest, the report said. Hambrick admitted to the altercation and was arrested despite protests by his wife.
Hambrick was booked into the county jail Thursday afternoon using his legal name, Troy Germain Grant.
He was held without bail until Friday, when a judge ordered him released and to have no contact with the victim.
Florida records show no previous arrests for Hambrick.
Lacoochee brothers Darren and Troy made the name Hambrick famous by helping the Pirates to a state high school football championship in 1992. The next year Troy Hambrick led the state in scoring with a county-record 222 points.
Both have endured their share of controversy since. Now both are out of the NFL.
Troy Hambrick was cut by the Arizona Cardinals on Aug. 22, potentially ending the 6-foot-1, 233-pound Lacoochee native's pro career after five seasons, four spent with the Dallas Cowboys. The running back totaled 2,179 yards and nine touchdowns in his career.
Hambrick told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2003 that he has fathered three children with three women but that he had dedicated his life to Christ and his new marriage. He and his longtime girlfriend wed July 1, 2003.
But he injured his foot at the end of the 2004 season, missed all of the Cardinals' voluntary offseason workouts this summer and was put on the physically unable to perform list in training camp. The team signed several veterans, endangering Hambrick's roster spot.
He told the Arizona Republic that he chose to spend the offseason with his large family in Lacoochee.
"I had a couple of family issues," he said. "It's hard being the only breadwinner, or the guy who is making that max amount of money to take care of the family. I'm away most of the year. It's hard to up and leave."
Darren, the elder brother, hasn't played since the 2002 season, when he was a Cleveland Browns linebacker. In October 2004 a judge lifted his probation from charges he twice cashed a $5,682.51 check from the Carolina Panthers in 2002.
Hambrick, 30, also is a potential witness in two high-profile east Pasco murder cases. He helped arrange a meeting between Alfredie Steele Jr. and detectives before Steele was charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Pasco sheriff's Lt. Charles "Bo" Harrison on June 1, 2003.
The ex-NFL linebacker also has been deposed in the murder case against longtime friend Eric Antwon "E-Love" Wilson, one of two men accused in the fatal Feb. 24, 2001, shooting of "Little" Ronnie Barber outside Rumors nightclub in Trilacoochee.
-- Times researcher Carolyn Edds contributed to this report.
