Former football star Mark Sanchez was released from the hospital and sent straight to jail after he allegedly assaulted an elderly man who then stabbed him during a drunken Indianapolis brawl, according to reports.
Sanchez, 38, was discharged from the hospital Sunday morning after being treated for stab wounds to the chest he sustained Friday night, TMZ reported.
But the former Jets Quarterback wasn’t sent on his merry way. Instead, Sanchez was brought to central booking at the Marion County Jail, as he’d already been arrested and charged with public intoxication and battery while he was in the hospital.
Sanchez likely won’t spend any time behind bars, however, as he reportedly posted his $300 cash bond before being booked.
The football star allegedly battered a 69-year-old grease truck driver who was picking up restaurant refuse in an Indianapolis alleyway, according to cops.
Sanchez was apparently running sprints in the alley, and he became enraged that the worker’s truck was blocking his way.
Things escalated after the old man couldn’t hear the drunken Sanchez because he’d removed his hearing aids. The 230-pounder then allegedly slammed him into the ground by a dumpster.
Timeline of the Mark Sanchez stabbing and arrest
Friday Night
- Mark Sanchez, 38, is in Indianapolis to serve as a Fox Sports analyst for the Raiders-Colts game on Sunday. He’s observed acting “erratically,” doing “wind sprints” in the alley behind Loughmiller’s Pub and Eatery in the downtown.
Just after midnight
- A grease truck driver picking up cooking oil from a nearby hotel parks his truck in the loading dock, blocking the alley where Sanchez is doing sprints.
- Sanchez approaches the driver to try to get him to move and eventually gets into an altercation where he body-slams him toward the wall and then to the ground.
- The driver sprayed Sanchez with mace or pepper spray, but the former NFL quarterback continues attacking him.
- The driver pulls a knife and stabs Sanchez two or three times in the chest, believing, “This guy is trying to kill me.”
- Sanchez turns around and heads up the alley.
12:30 a.m.
- Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers respond to a report of a person shot. They locate Sanchez in Loughmiller’s Pub.
- It’s later reported that Sanchez is uncooperative with responding officers. He tells the detective he can only remember “grabbing for a window” and nothing else about the incident.
- Sanchez is rushed to the hospital in critical condition.
- The driver also suffered “significant injuries,” including lacerations to his cheek and jaw, with a cut that allegedly went through his cheek and hit his tongue.
Saturday
- Sanchez undergoes surgery for stab wounds to the chest, and is stable.
- He is arrested at the hospital and charged with misdemeanor counts of battery resulting in injury, public intoxication, and unlawful entry of a motor vehicle.
Sunday
- Sanchez is discharged from the hospital Sunday morning and transferred directly to central booking at Marion County Jail, where he reportedly posts his $300 cash bond.
Monday
“This guy is trying to kill me,” the driver told police he was thinking, prompting him to stab Sanchez in self defense.
The truck driver even pepper-sprayed Sanchez before reaching for something to stab with, but Sanchez allegedly kept attacking him, according to police.
Photos from the aftermath showed the elderly man bloodied in a hospital bed with his head propped up with a neck brace, and a grisly laceration to his cheek.
Here’s the latest on the Mark Sanchez stabbing and arrest:
“His family says he was cut in the fight and it went through his cheek and hit his tongue,” Fox59 reported alongside the graphic images.
Sanchez was initially hospitalized in critical condition, but stabilized.
He was in Indianapolis for his gig as a Fox Sports analyst.
Sanchez told police he had no memory of the incident, according to an arrest affidavit.
