Here is more about it with speculation of what he was up to.
(Most of the) Truth comes out about the Javon Walker story
By Rob Calonge | June 27th, 2008
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Thanks to Fox 5 Las Vegas, A police report has been issued to the public and it doesn’t look good for anyone, except the police. Floyd Mayweather and his entourage can now be exonerated by the public because according to the police report, this was not a ‘grudge beating.’ So we at TFDS will extend our apologies to running the possibility that he had something to do with it. The police report brings most of the truth out, while covering up some truths that the Oakland Raiders or Raider Nation may not want to know.
The Mayweather rumor wasn’t totally inaccurate, just mostly incomplete. Walker was partying at Body English as we already know, then gambled for 15 minutes and headed up to the Penthouse at the Hard Rock to an after hours party. After being done there, he and his friend Ryan Lewis, along with two other women got into an Escalade that was to take them all back to his hotel room at the Bellagio. There was another female, Lindsey Herman, that Walker invited to follow them and that’s where the story gets interesting.
What hasn’t been reported until now is that Walker and Lewis got into a heated argument on the way back to the Bellagio. Apparently, it was so heated that Walker got out of the Escalade and into Herman’s car. The two then went to the Bellagio, but after dropping off their car with the valet, Walker was called over to a Range Rover. According to the police report, Walker had about $3,900 in casino chips in his pocket and the Range Rover had followed them from the Hard Rock to the Bellagio.
I mention the chips because they’ll come up again, but of the $3,900, he had three $1,000 chips. Walker apparently walked over to the Range Rover, and talked to the driver while the passenger got out and made a few unwarranted comments to Herman (possibly sexual?). After a minute, Walker and the two guys from the Range Rover entered the casino for a few minutes and then they all left together. Herman, not being able to find Walker went home.
Stopping there for a minute…does anyone else see drug deal? I’m speculating, I don’t know what happened so before anyone starts ‘hating,’ realize I’m only telling you like I see it. To me, it looks like they called him over, offered him a deal he couldn’t refuse and then they went and Walker cashed out whatever he needed to complete the deal. The report states:
“Shortly thereafter the suspect seated in the right front passenger seat exited the Range Rover and approached Herman. Herman stated the suspect made several unwanted comments to her. Simultaneously Walker entered the Range Rover and sat in the right front passenger seat. The Range Rover left the valet area at approximately 0553 hours only to return one minute later.“
For those of you who have never seen a drug deal go down, this looks as though they left the property to give Walker an opportunity to try the product without the watchful eyes of the security monitors of the casino. The report goes on:
“When they returned the driver and Walker exited, met up with the other suspect and briefly entered the casino area. Within a minute, both suspects and Walker exited the casino and re-entered the Range Rover. At approximately 0558 hours the Range Rover left the Valet area. The driver got into the driver’s seat, Walker got in the right front passenger seat, and the second suspect sat directly behind Walker in the right rear passenger seat.“
If I’m right, could it be that Walker went in to cash those casino chips to buy the product and then go on the drug run with the thugs that later beat him? I’m curious, are you? In a matter of 5 to 6 minutes, Walker has left the casino twice and entered once with the driver, Arfat Fadel.
The story after that gets rather vague. According to Herman, Walker called her at home from Drai’s a club at Bills Gambling Hall (Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino). He asked her to pick him up there, but surveillance footage showed that the Range Rover never arrived there from the Bellagio. The footage did however, show that Arfat Fadel was there at 0510 hours, prior to Walker leaving the Hard Rock.
The footage showed that Fadel received a phone call around 0532 and was seen hastily walking to the Range Rover. Minutes later, the Range Rover is seen on the Hard Rock surveillance video following Walker and his entourage away from the casino.
The key points that lead this to be a highly planned robbery are the fact that Fadel and his girlfriend, Alicia Granstedt, had just been served a 3 day notice to vacate their foreclosed home. The charges against Fadel for abuse of this girlfriend were prior to the Walker robbery. They were still living together and the morning of the Robbery he came back to the home in a hurry and had her cash out two $1,000 Hard Rock chips.
When the two were picked up, they were in the planning stages of leaving an Extended Stay hotel and according to the girlfriend, she had no idea that Fadel was involved with the Walker beating and robbery.
That’s the gist of the story, but it’s odd that Walker only remembers being approached by two unidentified males and then being escorted to the Range Rover before not remembering much after.
If Walker is currently doing drugs like cocaine or methamphetamine, he would still be able to pass a drug test easily since either drug has exited the system within days. According to KCI, an anti-meth site, meth stays in the system for 3 to 4 days. Another detox site suggests cocaine stays in the system for 2 to 3 days. Normally an athlete has 24 to 48 hours notice prior to a random drug test by the league and if you aren’t in the league’s substance abuse system like Walker, it could be more.
The police report also stated that Walker did actually sustain “a fractured jaw, a fractured (right) orbital bone and a concussion.” While these injuries could be considered serious, the Raiders are confidently stating that he’ll be ready by the time training camp rolls around July 25th. I’m not sure if the league office will be able to get the medical records for Walker. If Walker was indeed working out a deal for drugs, it’s likely that he would have some still in his system when at the hospital. Let’s just hope that my speculation is nothing but a product of where I’m from, where this sort of thing has been very common for the past two decades.
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