Ex-Jaguar Jimmy Smith serving 6 year sentence.
 

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-sh...221734727.html

Sad tale out of Mississippi as former Jacksonville Jaguars wide receiver Jimmy Smith is currently serving a six years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections after being convicted of drug and weapons charges, Chad Cushnir of firstcoastnews.com reports.

According to Mississippi DOC records, Smith is serving two years for "possession of a firearm by a convicted felon" and four years for possession of cocaine. Smith began his sentence on March 29, 2013 and his tentative release date is November 8, 2018.

Smith finished his career with 862 receptions for 12,287 yards — both totals rank among the Top 20 in NFL history — with 67 touchdowns during his 178-game career, all but seven of which were spent with the Jaguars after beginning his career a second-round pick of the Dallas Cowboys in 1992. Smith was injured during his first two seasons in the NFL and spent the 1994 season out of football before latching on with the expansion Jaguars in 1995.

During his 11-season career with the Jaguars, Smith earned five trips to the Pro Bowl and remains the franchise's all-time leader in every major receiving statistical category. Smith also had a few brushes with the law — a DUI arrest in 2001 that would eventually be dropped — and was suspended for four games during the 2003 season for violating the league's substance abuse policy.


Following his playing career, Smith was arrested for DUI in 2008 and on drug charges following a traffic violation in 2009. Smith received probation in both of those cases and voluntarily checked himself into rehab following the 2009 arrest. Smith appeared to have turned his life around, working with at-risk youth through his foundation. Smith was also quite active on Twitter, but has not posted since Dec. 18 of last year.

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Thug.

Luke will send him some popin' fresh cresent rolls.

Cocaines a hell of a drug.

Always seemed like a good guy.

ninjas gonna ninja

Bring him in for a look in 2018?

Make room for Marvin Harrison! AFC SOUTH 4 LYFE

My son, his girlfriend ani were discussing JS Friday night. He caught one of the biggest TD passes in Jag history from Brunell in Denver in Jan of 97 knocking the donx out of the playoffs in mile high stadium.

Helluva game.

Obviously, total blame for this goes to that crazed-lookin' Jags owner Kahn.

Wow. So sad. Jimmy was a good dude.

He was a great player

Always liked watching that guy play. Too bad.

I'll echo what most others have said. This is not expected at all.

Four years for possession of cocaine is absurdly excessive.

I have to ask. How does one get arrested and sentenced for this when celebrities constantly talk about doing it with no repercussions? I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that Charlie Sheen uses drugs based on his past statements.

Biggest let down since Fred Taylor's groin relapse.

Crazy how he was a part of those two legendary draft classes of the Cowboys in the early 90's. Even though he didn't stick around with the Cowboys very long.

ridiculous. he must have gotten busted in one backwards ass county. tacked on a couple years for Driving While Black. maybe the cops from Mississippi Burning got him. i guess he'd have a hole in head had that been the case.

This has to be killing Keenan McCardell.

Jimmy Smith has had substance abuse issues for 20 years.

Doesn't look like a criminal at all.

ROFL these mofos never learn

Dude should have been a patient long ago. Maybe he he wouldn't have to be a prisoner now.

I'm sure it's the weapons charge that got him the time, as it should.

DT

Why? Did he shoot someone?

Probably being a felon with a gun is the issue.

good player .. after football looks like things went bad .. too bad .....

**** that ninja.

The cocaine got him twice the time the weapons charge did.

Still a DUMBASS though.

They probably didnt include the fact that if you get caught with gun AND cocaine it carries a much stiffer sentence.

Also does not sa how much cocaine.

Sad story.

Yeah go figure.

And you're already a felon on top of that.

Him and Titus Young should hang out.