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Cops: 'Pacman' Paid Extortion Cash in Vegas Shooting

Posted Apr 21, 08 11:41 PM CDT in Crime & Courts,  Sports    Most Covered

(Newser) – Adam "Pacman" Jones paid "extortion" money to a 29-year-old man arrested for a Las Vegas strip club shooting that left a club employee paralyzed, police said. Arvin Kenti Edwards, of Renton, Wash., allegedly used go-betweens to reach Jones, who paid $15,000 in two installments after the shooting, according to a police report obtained Monday.

"He paid $15,000 to his friends, who advised him that if he didn't pay the money then this guy would come after him," said Robert Langford, Jones' lawyer in Las Vegas. Jones, 24, went to Seattle on Friday and picked Edwards from a police lineup, Langford said. He said Jones identified Edwards as the man who opened fire with a handgun, outside the strip club during the NBA's 2007 All-Star Weekend.

Source Associated Press

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Tennessee Titans' Adam "Pacman" Jones hands out boxes of food and personal-care items to families at Word of God Ministries in Atlanta on Tuesday, April 1, 2008.   (AP Photo/W.A. Harewood )
Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones is shown in court in Murfreesboro, Tenn., in this2008 file photo. Jones paid "extortion" money to a 29-year-old man arrested for a strip club shooting,   (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones stands in a courtroom for an arraignment where he pleaded no contest to a reduced charge in a Las Vegas strip club melee that preceded a triple shooting   (AP Photo/Jane Kalinowsky, File)
Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones, center, prays with his grandmother Willie Louise Davis, left, and the Rev. Larry Hill, right, pastor of Word of God Ministries.   (AP Photo)
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