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| The Downward Angle |
Luke Dormehl |
Can anyone in wrestling save Kurt Angle from himself?
“I don’t want any trouble; I just want my life back. I don’t even have that (right) now.” – Kurt Angle
‘On 8-15-09 at 7:50am, I was dispatched to the area of Giant Eagle and Get Go for a report of a PFA violation that was taking place in the lot. As I was en route to the scene from Robinson Towne Centre, dispatch advised me that the male offender (later identified as Kurt Angle) was in a silver Cadillac… headed toward the Robinson Mall on Park Manor and was wearing a green coloured t-shirt. I approached the traffic signal at the intersection of Park Manor and Robinson Centre Drive. As I was at the light, I observed a silver Cadillac STS travelling down Park Manor and making the left hand turn at Robinson Centre Drive and continuing onto Park Manor.’
As the vehicle passed me, I could clearly see the driver had on a green t-shirt. I turned around my marked police unit and made a traffic stop on the vehicle as it pulled into the Starbucks lot in Robinson Towne Centre. I was advised by dispatch that the driver should be Kurt Angle and that he was under DUI suspension. I approached the driver who provided me with his (license) that did identify him as Kurt Angle… In the front seat (of his car) there was a large zippered black bag. Inside one of the compartments was a capped syringe and two vials of Hygetropin which also contained the label “recumbent Human Growth Hormone Somatropin for injection”… Angle was placed into custody for the PFA violation and the drug charges and taken to the Robinson Twp. Police Station without incident…’
This is an extract from the official report filed by the officer who arrested Kurt Angle, current TNA World champion, on the morning of Saturday 15 August. Unfortunately, it was an otherwise slow news day for professional wrestling – the day’s previous top items included that the Hardys would reunite on Smackdown, that Michelle McCool was returning from injury, that the site of 2010’s Hall of Fame ceremony was being changed to a smaller venue, and that WWE wrestler Jesse had been renamed ‘Slam Master J’ by WWE creative. Not surprisingly then, the story that wrestling’s only Olympic gold medallist Kurt Angle had been arrested for stalking a fellow wrestler, driving with a suspended licence and possession of anabolic steroids, shook the industry to its core...
For the rest of this feature, check out issue 45 of FSM - available at WH Smith and all good retailers. (For US readers we are now carried at Borders and Barnes & Noble, so check for local availability or click here to subscribe.)
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