BROOKLYN, NEW YORK — An NBA star caught driving around Prospect Heights with a lit joint and a loaded gun will spend more than three years in prison, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced Monday. <\/p>\n
Former Portland Trailblazers point guard Sebastian Telfair, 33, was sentenced to three and a half years after a Brooklyn jury found him guilty of criminal possession of a weapon in April, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n
Cops found the gun when they pulled over Telfair on Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights on June 11, 2017, about 2:50 a.m., prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
The officers testified they spotted the NBA star’s Ford F-150 pickup truck parked on an Atlantic Avenue center median, then watching as he made a U-turn and drive away without turning on his headlights, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
When the officers searched Telfair’s car, they found a loaded .45 caliber gun in the console and “a lit marijuana cigarette” in the pickup truck’s console. <\/p>\n
Telfair, a Brooklynite who played ball at Abraham Lincoln High School before joining the Portland Trailblazers in 2004, was also accused of carting a gas-operated submachine gun during his two-week trial, the New York Post reported, but was acquitted on related charges. <\/p>\n