He's an ex-NFL football player, generally regarded as one of the top 3 busts of the NFL. After being drafted number 2, his career went nowhere and he lost it, mentally.
In 2008, according to general google searches for Ryan Leaf, he broke into the house of a player and stole drugs. A warrant was issued for his arrest and he fled into Canada.
Whatcom County, being a border county on I-5 gets hundreds of fugitives a year. It's part of where we're at. When Ryan Leaf attempted to come back to the U.S. he was arrested at the border on his outstanding warrant.
Note...if you ever have a warrant issued for your arrest - don't try to cross an international border. I know Canada doesn't always feel like another country, but it is. And they'll get you.
Since Mr. Leaf was a guest in our fine detention facility, I had to process him. He happened to get arrested at a time when all of our Prosecutor's were at a conference so I was the one fielding the press phone calls. One report was an AP reporter and as it turns out, AP news is worldwide.
So my name, and my quotes which were business related, has ended up all over the world. I've been in papers such as the USA Today, ESPN, CNN, MSNBC, NBC Sports, Fox Sports, The NY Daily News and many, many, many more.
A google search of my name results in just under 6,000 hits. 3270 hits relating to Ryan Leaf and my quote.
I know it's not a big deal and I'm nothing in this story but in my world, it's so exciting. I love to be able to google my name and find that people all over the world have read my name. It's just...exciting (for me and Chris and Carley).
The article is the same all over and here it is from the June 17, 2009 USA Today:
Leaf posts bond after arrest at U.S.-Canada border
CANYON, Texas (AP) — Former NFL quarterback Ryan Leaf posted a $45,000 bond Wednesday in Washington for drug and burglary charges out of Texas after being arrested by customs agents as he returned to the United States from Canada.
James Farren, the district attorney in Randall County in West Texas, said Leaf was arrested Wednesday by federal customs agents. Legal assistant Jennifer Bonstein said Leaf declined to waive extradition during a hearing Wednesday afternoon in Bellingham, Wash., about 90 miles north of Seattle.
Wendy Jones, chief corrections deputy for the Whatcom County Jail, confirmed that Leaf posted bond Wednesday evening.
Leaf's attorney in Washington told the court Leaf would post the bond and return to Texas by himself. Leaf also was to come back to court in Whatcom County on July 16, Bonstein said.
Bill Kelly, Leaf's attorney in Texas, said his client was returning to Texas to turn himself in by a Thursday deadline.
