Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at 11:00 pm  |  34 responses

Arenas Keeps Kicks, Guns in Locker

There must be something in the D.C. air. A few months after Delonte West had some firearm issues in the nation’s capital, Gilbert Arenas finds himself subject to a gun-related investigation by the NBA.

As first reported by cbssports.com and later expounded on by the Washington Times:

“…Gilbert Arenas stored firearms in a locked container in his locker, unloaded and without ammunition,” the Wizards’ statement read. “The Wizards organization and Arenas promptly notified the local authorities and the NBA and are cooperating fully with law enforcement during its review of this matter and will have no further comment at this time.”

In a phone interview with The Washington Times, Arenas said he had guns at his home, but following the Dec. 9 birth of his third child, daughter Hamiley Penny, he decided he didn’t want the weapons anywhere his children could get to them. So on Dec. 10, Arenas brought them to Verizon Center, where he stored them in his lockbox until he could figure out what to do with them. A week later, he turned the guns over to team security and asked that they be turned over to the D.C. police.

“I wouldn’t have brought them to D.C. had I known the rules,” Arenas said. “After my daughter was born, I was just like, I don’t need these anymore. I don’t want them around the kids. We are working with the league and the authorities.”

Arenas does not face any criminal charges in the incident.

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  • Andrew Posted: Dec.24 at 11:04 pm
    FIRST LOL i saw this just now on NBA.com, sooo jks. whatta dumb ass

  • ben2424 Posted: Dec.24 at 11:23 pm
    this isnt news…..

  • Michael Scorn Posted: Dec.24 at 11:25 pm
    ^^^ Yeah, what a horrible man who thinks of his kids first. Too many men like him in America.

  • Tzvi Twersky Posted: Dec.24 at 11:28 pm
    Ben, it is news, just maybe not “bad” news when see in that context.

  • larry Posted: Dec.25 at 12:03 am
    What a total waste of time. Arenas took very reasonable precautions and was ridding himself of the guns. He should be held as a model rather than being charged with anything.

  • DMC14 Posted: Dec.25 at 12:33 am
    Arenas, gotta love him.

  • Omnixyience (Philippines) Posted: Dec.25 at 12:35 am
    Haven’t you people forget who he is??? His freakin’ AGENT ZERO!
    Of course he will have a gun LOL

  • Earl Posted: Dec.25 at 12:51 am
    Guns are great! (Seriously)

  • Earl Posted: Dec.25 at 12:51 am
    Guns are great! (Seriously)

  • fut. Posted: Dec.25 at 2:08 am
    Should of had Lazers

  • chiqo Posted: Dec.25 at 2:49 am
    no one’s made a joke about shooting yet? you guys are falling off.

  • Anton Posted: Dec.25 at 3:18 am
    Well he’s not packing in the sheets so he best be packin in the streets.

  • Dave Posted: Dec.25 at 3:32 am
    I don’t understand why “the authorities” have been notified? Is it illegal to have guns in sporting facility in DC?

  • underdog Posted: Dec.25 at 5:31 am
    It’s nice he named his third child Penny after… well Penny.

  • ab_40 Posted: Dec.25 at 6:26 am
    that is why your name is earl… earl

  • rav Posted: Dec.25 at 7:37 am
    well done gil – you’ve given the wiz a pretty good excuse to fire you

  • Russ Bengtson Posted: Dec.25 at 11:00 am
    What larry said.

  • Holly MacKenzie Posted: Dec.25 at 12:44 pm
    Dave, you are not allowed to have guns in NBA training facilities/team planes/etc. That being said, I don’t think Gil was trying to do anything wrong, guns were unloaded without ammo and he turned them over to be handed in to police. Hopefully it gets sorted out soon.

  • Holy Baller Posted: Dec.25 at 12:50 pm
    Why would he put them in his freakin locker though? I mean how many other places could he have stored them? It just seems stupid to me.

  • MeloMan2.0 Posted: Dec.25 at 1:45 pm
    ive been confused for a while…. but i’ve always thought Holy Baller was Holly Mackenzie in disguise

  • nastierthanu Posted: Dec.25 at 3:42 pm
    Suxs that head lookin to come up know he aint strapped$ we all know these ctas have a bullseye on em In da street

  • giogolo Posted: Dec.25 at 6:58 pm
    What do you actually do to your guns when you want to dispose of it in the D.C area? dont they have accompanying regulations when you buy them?

  • Klemperer Posted: Dec.26 at 12:07 am
    Really? No mention of the Washington Bullets?

  • DallasJ Posted: Dec.26 at 2:34 am
    makes sense.. can’t keep the guns at home. Take em to WORK. Yea.. smart. exactly what i’d do.

  • litetitan Posted: Dec.26 at 5:26 am
    A man entered 10 puns in, to win a pun telling competition but unfortunately no pun in ten did….

  • GametimeWeezy Posted: Dec.26 at 3:47 pm
    Yea da Agent Zero really is a gunner haha..

  • foolio_iglesias Posted: Dec.26 at 6:27 pm
    Seriously,stashing firearms in your locker was the norm in the roaring ’70′s NBA…

  • tavoris Posted: Dec.26 at 7:52 pm
    don’t NBA players with 9-digit contracts hire bodyguards anymore?

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  • Buschfiya Posted: Dec.27 at 7:01 pm
    they should change the name of the team back to the washington bullets.

  • Cheryl Posted: Dec.28 at 9:10 am
    He’s anticipating playing against Shaq. They’ve got some beef, right?

  • Cheryl Posted: Dec.28 at 9:11 am
    That was so wrong. Bad Cheryl! *slaps hand*

  • The Philosopher Posted: Dec.28 at 10:30 am
    Guns! Hammers! Kevlar! 50 Cent! Marv Albert, man!

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