The Cleveland Brown wasted no time moving on from a player who was arrested for driving into a restaurant this week.
Police arrested Lonnie Phelps, a 23-year-old defensive lineman for the Cleveland Browns, on suspicion of DUI after he “drunkenly crashed” into a restaurant in Key West.
TMZ Sports shared details from the accident.
Cleveland Browns defensive lineman Lonnie Phelps was arrested Wednesday night … after cops say he drunkenly crashed an SUV into a restaurant — and then refused to cooperate with a police investigation afterward.
According to the Key West Police Department incident report, obtained by TMZ Sports, it all happened at around 8:47 PM outside of the Red Shoe Island Bistro in Key West.
Just a few hours later, the Browns announced their decision to waive the defensive lineman.
Browns now have waived DE Lonnie Phelps. https://t.co/jI6RqC9oFI
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) June 20, 2024
In the police report obtained by TMZ, Phelps allegedly asked a female cop not to kill him and suggested she was Russian.
“Phelps talked about how thirsty he was,” the report began, “how he did not know what I was going to do to him because females are the worst, asked me not to kill him, asked me how long it takes to bail out, how long I was the detective and informed me I was Russian.”
It might be a while before Phelps is back on the field with a new team.