Former NBA player arrested in Alameda
Isaiah 'J.R.' Rider is taken into custody after running from police; he was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant
By Peter Hegarty
STAFF WRITER
A former professional basketball player wanted on a $100,000 warrant ran from police when they showed up at a bank after getting an anonymous tip that he was inside.
Isaiah "J.R." Rider, 34, who once played with the Minnesota Timberwolves during a professional career that stretched from 1993 to 2002, was taken into custody Saturday afternoon in the 2100 block of Otis Drive.
The misdemeanor warrant accuses Rider of battery. Other details about the case were not available, however.
Rider also faces a charge of obstructing or resisting police because he allegedly ran from the officers, who had been sent to U.S. Bank on Otis Drive after they got a call that a "wanted man" was inside.
The 6-foot-5 Rider was the fifth pick in the 1993 NBA draft and also played with the Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets.
His career was marred by a string of run-ins with the law, however: Among his arrests was one in June 1999, when Oakland police took him into custody after they said he raped a woman in a residence in Alameda. Charges were later dropped, however.
Rider was also convicted of assaulting a woman at a Minneapolis sports bar in 1994, and in August 1997 he pleaded no contest to having cloned cell phones.
Isaiah 'J.R.' Rider is taken into custody after running from police; he was wanted on a misdemeanor warrant
By Peter Hegarty
STAFF WRITER
A former professional basketball player wanted on a $100,000 warrant ran from police when they showed up at a bank after getting an anonymous tip that he was inside.
Isaiah "J.R." Rider, 34, who once played with the Minnesota Timberwolves during a professional career that stretched from 1993 to 2002, was taken into custody Saturday afternoon in the 2100 block of Otis Drive.
The misdemeanor warrant accuses Rider of battery. Other details about the case were not available, however.
Rider also faces a charge of obstructing or resisting police because he allegedly ran from the officers, who had been sent to U.S. Bank on Otis Drive after they got a call that a "wanted man" was inside.
The 6-foot-5 Rider was the fifth pick in the 1993 NBA draft and also played with the Portland Trail Blazers and Denver Nuggets.
His career was marred by a string of run-ins with the law, however: Among his arrests was one in June 1999, when Oakland police took him into custody after they said he raped a woman in a residence in Alameda. Charges were later dropped, however.
Rider was also convicted of assaulting a woman at a Minneapolis sports bar in 1994, and in August 1997 he pleaded no contest to having cloned cell phones.
