Emoni Bates was arrested over the weekend after a fireplace ham was found in a car he was driving.
Bates might be charged with carrying a hid weapon. He’s scheduled to be arraigned at 1 p.m. ET, per Jackson.
Steve Haney, lawyer for Bates, informed ESPN that the arrest final night time got here after a routine visitors cease when he was driving a borrowed automobile that had a gun in it. “Reserve judgment on this,” Haney mentioned in a press release. “There’s far more to the story. He borrowed somebody’s automobile, was pulled over and a gun was situated within the automobile.”
Bates was as soon as the No. 1 recruit within the 2022 class till he reclassified final summer time and ended up at No. 3 in 2021.
Bates initially dedicated to Michigan State in the summertime of 2020 after which reopened his recruitment in April 2021, earlier than reclassifying from 2022 to 2021 and committing to Memphis.
Bates transfered to Japanese Michigan this 12 months.
