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Former NFL player pleads innocent
By: DANIELLE CAMILLI
Burlington County Times

MOUNT HOLLY - Former NFL lineman Alonzo Spellman pleaded innocent Monday to charges stemming from a fight outside a Burlington Township bar last September and will be back in court Wednesday.

Spellman, a Mount Holly native and 1989 graduate of Rancocas Valley Regional High School in Mount Holly, threatened another man with a knife outside the Sunset Tavern on Sunset Road, police said.

No injuries were reported, but Spellman was indicted on charges of terroristic threats and weapons offenses. Spellman has been offered probation in exchange for a guilty plea, authorities said.

Spellman, of Willingboro, is in the Burlington County Jail unable to make $50,000 bail. He also has a warrant against him from Tulsa, Okla., his court-appointed attorney said.

In January 2008, he was arrested in Tulsa after he led officers on a 20-minute chase preceded by an altercation at a convenience store, police said.

The 36-year-old played for Rancocas Valley and Ohio State before being drafted into the NFL by the Chicago Bears in 1992.

He was released in 1998 after a series of bizarre incidents in which he refused to leave his publicist's house for eight hours and was found walking barefoot in frigid Chicago wearing only a thin, white hospital gown.

Those incidents resulted in Spellman undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder.

Spellman also spent about a year in federal custody after pleading guilty in 2002 to interfering with a flight crew when he forced a plane to make an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport due to unruly behavior.
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Alonzo Spellman

As a Buckeye: Three-year letter-winner (1989 to '91)

As a pro: A first-round draft choice of the Chicago Bears in 1992, Spellman played 123 games in nine seasons with Chicago, Dallas and Detroit. He totaled 247 tackles and 43 sacks.

The skinny: Though Spellman's performance suffered after a shoulder injury in 1997, his bigger problems were with bipolar disorder, a diagnosis that became public in 1998. He was arrested for disrupting an airline flight in 2002 and spent 18 months in federal prison.
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FrancisSawyer;1579468; said:
Man, every time this thread gets bumped I expect the worst.
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I was literally just thinking the same thing :shake:

I've known people to successfully handle their bipolarity by sticking to their meds, but the same chemical imbalance also tells them they don't need meds. It's a tough thing to deal with...
 
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Former OSU DL Alonzo Spellman in NJ Jail

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Former Ohio State defensive lineman Alonzo Spellman, who has battled bi-polar disorder, is incarcerated in New Jersey?s Burlington County Jail.

A first-round pick of the Chicago Bears in 1992, Spellman played in the NFL from 1992-2001 with three teams. He finished his pro football career by playing one season (2006) with the Arena League?s Las Vegas Gladiators.

But he has had several run-ins with law thanks in part to his bi-polar disorder. In 2008, Spellman reportedly was arrested after leading police on 20-minute car chase then resisting arrest after a disturbance at a convenience store. He also pleaded guilty in 2003 of allegedly interfering with the crew on an airplane.

Spellman was a three-year starter and captain at Ohio State
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Former Ohio State defensive lineman Alonzo Spellman has been released from the Tulsa County Jail after pleading no contest to a variety of charges.

Spellman pleaded no contest Monday to 10 counts filed in 2008 that include felony charges of eluding a police officer and assault with a dangerous weapon.

He was sentenced to one year in jail and was released after receiving credit for time served.

Spellman was a three-year starter and captain of the Buckeyes. He spent seven years in the NFL, retiring in 2001 after playing for Chicago, Dallas and Detroit
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Alonzo Spellman, former NFL lineman and county native, charged with threats

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Alonzo Spellman appears in court in Mount Holly in 2009. Spellman played football at Rancocas Valley Regional High School, Ohio State and for the Chicago Bears in the National Football League. At left is Assistant Prosecutor Steve Eife. (BCT Staff Photograph/Dennis Mc Donald)

Posted: Monday, July 15, 2013
By Danielle Camilli Staff writer

Troubled former NFL lineman Alonzo Spellman, who has long struggled with bipolar disorder, found himself back in the Burlington County Jail after he threatened to kill people at a Willingboro mental health program.

The Mount Holly native was charged with terroristic threats Saturday for the alleged threats against staff members and fellow patients at Burlington County?s Screening and Crisis Intervention Program in the emergency department of the Lourdes Medical Center on Sunset Road.

The center, operated by the Lester A. Drenk Behavioral Health Center, offers emergency psychiatric services and aims to maximize use of the least restrictive alternative for treatment of psychiatric illness, according to Drenk?s website.

It?s the third time in five years that Spellman, who gave a Willingboro address to the court, has been held in the Mount Holly jail for brushes with local law enforcement.

Superior Court Judge Terrence Cook set bail at $20,000 with a 10 percent cash option. He asked the state for more specific information when it requested a restraining order prohibiting Spellman from the SCIP program.

?How can that be?? said Spellman, who appeared via closed-circuit television at the Burlington County Courthouse in Mount Holly. ?I may have to call if I?m manic or depressed.?

The one-time football standout from Rancocas Valley Regional High School and Ohio State University also struggled to give the judge an address where he could be reached if released from jail, telling Cook the Clubhouse Drive address in the complaint no longer was good.

?No, I can?t use that,? Spellman said. ?I could give you a lot of addresses, but I have bipolar disorder and they don?t like me around.?

A father of six, including five minors, Spellman finally settled on an address on Parish Lane in Willingboro and told the judge he would need a public defender to represent him.

The new charge comes 13 months after Spellman was released from a jail in Tulsa, Okla., where he was sentenced to a year and immediately released on a time-served sentence, after he pleaded no contest to multiple counts for three cases dating back to 2008.

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