Andre "Bad Debt" Rison

[DaytonBuck]

Rison to Be Jailed for Not Paying Support

DECATUR, Ga. - [size=-1] A judge ordered the arrest of former star receiver Andre Rison on Monday for failing to pay $107,350 in child support.

[/size] [size=-1] Superior Court Judge Cynthia Becker ruled that Rison is in contempt of court and should be jailed for 20 days. She asked that other jurisdictions outside the state assist in the arrest. Rison was not at court Monday. [/size]

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[size=-1] Rison hasn't paid his $3,500-a-month child-support payment for his 16- and 18-year-old children since August 2002, the order said. The child-support total is $87,500, with the additional amount coming from interest and attorney's fees. [/size]

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[size=-1] Randall Kessler, an attorney for Raycoa Handley, the mother of two of Rison's children, said he thinks Rison is in Michigan or Florida. [/size]

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[size=-1] "I just want him to come forward and pay his child support. I didn't want him to go to jail," Handley said. [/size]

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[size=-1] She said Rison hasn't seen or talked to his children in 2 1/2 years. [/size]

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[size=-1] Kessler said asking for Rison's arrest and extradition is the only way to get his attention. [/size]

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[size=-1] Rison's attorney, Max Richardson, said he is going to "try and see Mr. Rison does what he's supposed to do." He declined further comment. [/size]

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[size=-1] Last month, a district judge in Michigan dismissed a felony charge against Rison for failing to pay child support to his ex-wife for their 16-year-old son. Rison owed more than $90,000 to Tonja Rison and had been charged with felony nonsupport in December 2002. [/size]

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[size=-1] Rison last played for the Oakland Raiders (news) in 2000, finishing with 41 catches for 606 yards and six touchdowns while helping them reach the AFC championship game. He was suspended for four games in 2001 for a repeat violation of the league's substance abuse policy and has been out of football since. [/size]

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[size=-1] Rison, who played from 1989-2000, had 743 catches for 10,205 yards and 84 touchdowns in 12 seasons with seven teams.[/size]

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[PlanetFrnd]

More from SI.com "Bad Luck Club"

and one of my personal favorites

Left Eye, as she was known by her stage name, burned down fianc? Andre Rison's $2 million house in Atlanta in June 1994. Rison would catch 81 passes the next season, his fifth consecutive campaign with at least 80 receptions, but had only one more 1,000-yard season after that, in 1997 with the Chiefs. Lopes died in a car accident in Honduras in 2002.

 

[Thump]

My wife's, dad's 1st cousin was his attorney when he was in Kansas City and told me this past fall at a wedding that Andre paid cash for his house and that he had no insurance on the house when it was burnt down.

The cousin also still owns one of Rison's Porsches b/c he didn't have enough money to pay attorney's fees. The kicker was that Rison's mom was driving it up from Georgia when she totaled it. The cousin had to pay to have it hauled to KC and repaired.

He said last he heard Andre was "hanging" in local gyms in Florida for like $200 a week and that he has no money left from his FB career.

 

[starBUCKS]

My wife's, dad's 1st cousin was his attorney when he was in Kansas City and told me this past fall at a wedding that Andre paid cash for his house and that he had no insurance on the house when it was burnt down.

The cousin also still owns one of Rison's Porsches b/c he didn't have enough money to pay attorney's fees. The kicker was that Rison's mom was driving it up from Georgia when she totaled it. The cousin had to pay to have it hauled to KC and repaired.

He said last he heard Andre was "hanging" in local gyms in Florida for like $200 a week and that he has no money left from his FB career.

I use to always hang with Dre and Lorenzo White in Miami. Dre is pretty broken down... Lo White has a contracting company. Anyways we'd mostly hang out, smoke and play Madden. But, the dude is broke and was never good with money. He has a paid for house in Cleveland that he has former cronies living in, that he just floats. He would cruise around in "girlfriends" car's... like Saturns.... and never have any dough when we were out. He's tried to be a party promoter like Louis Oliver, but never really panned out. It's bad when the CFL is turning you down from playing. He still thought he should be playing in the NFL, and never realized...if he couldn't cut it in Canada, how could he cut it in the NFL.

It's pretty humorous because you would never know that he use to be pretty big. He's short and doesn't look like an athlete. Especially sports illiterate people in Miami have no clue who is use to be. He's just "Dre" now.

 

[DaytonBuck]

I use to always hang with Dre and Lorenzo White in Miami. Dre is pretty broken down... Lo White has a contracting company. Anyways we'd mostly hang out, smoke and play Madden. But, the dude is broke and was never good with money. He has a paid for house in Cleveland that he has former cronies living in, that he just floats. He would cruise around in "girlfriends" car's... like Saturns.... and never have any dough when we were out. He's tried to be a party promoter like Louis Oliver, but never really panned out. It's bad when the CFL is turning you down from playing. He still thought he should be playing in the NFL, and never realized...if he couldn't cut it in Canada, how could he cut it in the NFL.

It's pretty humorous because you would never know that he use to be pretty big. He's short and doesn't look like an athlete. Especially sports illiterate people in Miami have no clue who is use to be. He's just "Dre" now.

the surreal life could use him

 

[iambrutus]

this is a great story

 

[BUCKYLE]

Hasn't paid child support in five years and he's just now getting twenty days in jail?! He's lucky he doesn't live in Licking County.

 

[TRON]

Hasn't paid child support in five years and he's just now getting twenty days in jail?! He's lucky he doesn't live in Licking County.

Amen.

 

[starBUCKS]

You guys realize that story is 4 years old?