Truth & Rumors > NHL

Leaf sentenced to work program

Views
199
Comments
-1

Toronto Maple Leafs forward Mark Bell won't spend any nights behind bars this summer but will spend his days working at a California jail, Rogers Sportsnet reported on its website yesterday. After pleading no contest to drunken driving and hit and run charges last summer, Bell was sentenced yesterday to a work program. Bell will report to the prison every morning and work eight hour days a day from June 2 to Aug. 15, before returning home in the evening. A judge then will decide if the work program should be extended. The jail term stems from a hit and run incident on Labor Day of 2006, in which Bell rear ended a pickup truck near San Jose. Bell was playing with the Sharks at the time. Bell fled the scene leaving the driver with head injuries.

Toronto Star

Mark Bell , Scott Cunningham/Getty Images Mark Bell , Scott Cunningham/Getty Images
May 13, 2008  12:26 PM ET

jailbait mark bell....hopefully he can bounce back from this
at least hes trying i guesss

May 13, 2008  01:07 PM ET

Its unbelievable what measures have to be taken with the Leafs just to get them "to work".

May 13, 2008  01:07 PM ET

Bostongm - think he'll be driving to "work" and back each day?

May 13, 2008  02:12 PM ET

Is this the first time that Bell hit someone leaving them with a head injury and then runs? Does he do this on the ice? I am confused? He should be playing for the Flyers!

May 13, 2008  02:15 PM ET

well at least we have that great hit on alfie to remember him by
man that was sweet

May 13, 2008  03:08 PM ET

It must be nice for these athletes when they get busted for DUI. Here, go work for 8 hours a day ,you know, like the rest of society. I also love how later in the blurb it refers to it as a "jail term"

May 13, 2008  04:07 PM ET

Well Bentley00, he will be "working in a jail". :-S

May 13, 2008  05:13 PM ET

Wow...get drunk, get in your car and drive, hit someone innocent and injure them, run away like a real man and in the end you get a part time summer job. Hopefully he gets to work outside so he can work on his tan before he has to go back to Leafs training camp. Hey...one part time job to another and both places he may get to hang out with Rob Ramage.

May 13, 2008  06:00 PM ET

Not to get all After School Special on this site or anything, but, I myself am in the middle of a DUI case I am fighting right now, and I gotta tell ya, I didn't hit anybody, or even come close. I got caught at a RIDE program and blew just over (piss me off). Anyways, I'm not getting anywhere near the treatment this guy is getting, and I didn't flee any scenes or hit any people. This kind of treatment - and that they give the Paris Holtons and Lindsay Lohans, for that matter - sure doesn't send much of a message if you ask me. If they want drinking and driving to stop, they need to send their messages with the higher profile cases, where everyone will see what punishment gets levied, as opposed to paying lip service for the "celebrities" and punishing to pi&& ants to make up for it. Maybe that's just my 2 cents...

May 13, 2008  06:02 PM ET

This is nothing, he should be more worried about the civil case, his salary will be going towards the dude with the injuries, have fun with that.

May 13, 2008  06:39 PM ET

Me thinks they should sentence all of the Leaf players to a summer work program since they do so little of it during the hockey season!

 
May 13, 2008  06:54 PM ET

Those Sudbury cops are not to be trifled with...let me tell ya. Bell would have been shoved inside that Super Stack all summer wearing a Habs sweater.

Comment

Remember to keep your posts clean. Profanity will get filtered, and offensive comments will be removed.


The Si.com Cover Hub Go to the Cover Hub

Stub Hub

The 2009 schedule has been released. Search for tickets!

Truth & Rumors

MOST POPULAR

  1. 1
    Agent: 'Extraordinary' interest in Bay
    Views
    5653
    Comments
    1890
  2. 2
    Vikings to consider L.A. move?
    Views
    66319
    Comments
    1877
  3. 3
    Bills owner wanted Gruden
    Views
    20437
    Comments
    306
  4. 4
    Mayo rebukes Bruschi's Belichick knock
    Views
    45028
    Comments
    261
  5. 5
    Can Iverson lure LeBron to Knicks?
    Views
    10303
    Comments
    176

Message Boards

  1. NCAAF > General NCAAF

    Are college football coaches…
    Views
    318
    Replies
    51
  2. NFL > Pittsburgh Steelers

    Big Ben accepts Blame for loss…
    Views
    281
    Replies
    45
  3. NCAAF > General NCAAF

    CFB Game Day 11/21/2009
    Views
    145
    Replies
    84

Blogs

SI.com

Swimsuit

SI Photos