Ex-Detroit Lions cornerback Cam Sutton turns himself in
Cam Sutton faces a felony cost of home battery by strangulation. He turned himself in to the sheriff in Florida, March 31, 2024.
Former Detroit Lions cornerback Cam Sutton appeared in a Florida court docket Monday the place he was charged with one misdemeanor rely of home battery.
Sutton, who turned himself in to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Workplace late Sunday, was launched on his personal recognizance, Erin Maloney, communications officer for the Florida state’s legal professional workplace within the thirteenth judicial circuit, instructed the Free Press by e-mail.
Sutton had been needed for weeks in Florida after police issued a warrant for his arrest March 7 on a felony rely of home battery by strangulation.
Officers responded to an early-morning name of a home violence incident in progress and located a feminine sufferer with wounds that indicated an altercation happened, Phil Martello, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s workplace, instructed the Free Press final month.
Sutton fled the scene earlier than police arrived, and the sheriff’s division took to social media March 20 to ask for assist finding him.
The incident got here someday after court docket information present Sutton took half in a Zoom listening to in a paternity case. One other listening to within the case scheduled for March 7 was canceled.
The Lions discovered of Sutton’s authorized troubles by way of social media on March 20, staff president Rod Wooden stated final week. Wooden stated Sutton was within the constructing, “unexpectedly” figuring out with the staff’s power employees, when information of the warrant for his arrest broke.
The Lions inspired Sutton to show himself into police, Wooden stated, then launched Sutton the following day.
“We had been studying it the identical second you guys had been studying concerning the warrant,” Wooden instructed reporters March 25 on the NFL’s annual assembly. “Really, I used to be on a Zoom name with the league on one other matter when it popped up on my cellphone. As quickly as that decision wrapped up, we sort of rapidly convened and talked about it. We had been in a position to attain Cam and speak about it, and prompt that he get counsel and do the correct factor to show himself in. After which after that, we met the remainder of the day after which the next morning to resolve to launch him.”
Neither Sutton nor his legal professional, Jason Setchen, has responded to messages looking for remark.
One of many Lions’ high free agent additions final spring, Sutton had a disappointing first season with the Lions. He made 65 tackles and had one interception whereas beginning all 17 common season video games, however struggled late within the season and within the playoffs in opposition to opposing No. 1 receivers.
The Lions traded for Carlton Davis III, signed Amik Robertson in free company and re-signed Emmanuel Moseley to bolster their secondary this offseason. Sutton was anticipated to play because the staff’s No. 2 cornerback reverse Davis this fall, with Robertson and Emmanuel Moseley serving because the staff’s high backups.
Sutton was due a completely assured base wage of $10.5 million this fall, although the Lions are looking for to void the ensures on his contract.
They launched him with a June 1 designation, which permits them to unfold his lifeless cap hit — about $8.7 million, as soon as his ensures void — over two years.
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