Rose’s Son Enters Guilty Plea to Drug-Trafficking Charges
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Pete Rose Jr., who shares a name with the man who accumulated more hits than any other major league baseball player, now shares something else with his famous father: they have both been arrested on federal charges. Rose never came close to matching his father’s remarkable career as a hitter. But, after he was arrested yesterday in Nashville and pleaded guilty to charges that he distributed drugs, he could end up spending more time in prison than the five months his father once served for tax evasion. Rose, 35, appeared in federal court on charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to distribute gamma butyrolactone, or GBL, which is sometimes sold as a steroid alternative, to minor league players. He could be sentenced to 21 to 24 months and fined up to $1 million as part of the agreement he made with prosecutors, the assistant United States attorney Paul O’Brien said in Nashville. Rose, whose sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 20, committed the crime while he played for the Chattanooga Lookouts, the Cincinnati Reds’ Class AA affiliate, in 2001. He did not speak to reporters outside the federal courthouse in Nashville yesterday, but his lawyer, Jeffrey Brodey, said: “This is a tragedy. Anyone who knows this young man knows he is a very, very fine young man. The use of this stuff is common. It’s used as a sleep aid by many people in sports. More : nytimes.com |