![]() In his red F-150 truck, officials found $10,000 in cash and 175 pounds of pot with a street value of $700,000. Drug Enforcement Administration agents on December 12. Out on bail, he was stopped along Interstate 45 in Ellis County by U.S. In his white van, police found 213 pounds-not ounces, pounds-of marijuana. Nate's fantasy got bitch-slapped on November 4, 2001, when, after countless successful runs over a year, he and two women were stopped by Louisiana state troopers on Interstate 10 in St. "It didn't seem like easy money, it was easy money," said Newton, whose last Cowboys contract paid him $700,000 in '98. His scheme was simple: "Invest" $10,000, drive from Dallas to wherever there was demand for his supply, deliver pot in cardboard boxes and get handed $30,000. ![]() It was laziness, greed and a rough circle of friends met at illegal dog fights that lured Nate into drug trafficking after he retired in '99. He also suited up for the enemy-playing the decadent deliveryman who paved the way for dealers to peddle dope to your city.and your kids. One of his era's most dominant offensive linemen, Newton earned three Super Bowl rings, six Pro Bowl trips and the common man's adoration because of his fluctuating weight and jagged yet jocular sound bites. But he also bore the scars of being a toter, if not a toker. Wearing shorts, a gray Reebok T-shirt and 373 pounds on his 6-foot-1 frame, Nate appeared great. He's whispered his story only to K104-FM's morning show, a talk show at Hooters hosted by Cowboys radio voice Wally Lynn, KFCD 990 AM afternoon host Mike Fisher and, on November 3, your friendly Dallas Observer. Though a free man after leaving Louisiana's Avoyelles State Prison a year ago, the popular ex-Cowboy has kept a skinny profile. "It caught up to me, but that's the way I rolled: butt-naked booty bumpin'." "In the NFL, I lived on two and a half hours' sleep," he says. In his first interview with a print outlet since being released from prison, he was as subtle as a bulldozer-zero percent sugarcoat, 100 percent straight shit. "Like nobody could touch me."Īfter 14 years in the pros and 32 months in the pen, Nate Newton still doesn't fit the mold. You seek a logical explanation for how a guy got busted for transporting hundreds of pounds of pot, twice in five weeks? That's just the way I do things, all the way. ![]() I'm going to heaven now, but at the time I was going to hell full-speed. "You're either going to heaven or hell, there's no in between. "If I got caught, I didn't want there to be no connections to my people," he says. You expect a sappy apology for cutting off friends and family in favor of illegal drug trafficking? "All I found was hatred and the devil and dudes scheming up better ways to break the law." You want a tearjerker tale of remorse, rehabilitation and repentance behind bars?
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