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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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