There's no real way to know if Travis Henry decided that trafficking cocaine was the best way to battle the recent economic woes our country has been facing. However, he does have a large family to feed, so it's reasonable to think that, without the steady income stream of professional athletics, he needed a little handy cash.
Regardless of how he ended up slinging the ya-o (isn't that what the kids call it?), he got busted. Of course. Via MDS at PFT:
Henry and another man were arrested yesterday, the Rocky Mountain Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a statement. Both men are being held pending the filing of federal drug charges later today.
Henry ran afoul of NFL drug policies multiple times during his career. In 2007 he successfully challenged a failed drug test for marijuana. Broncos coach Mike Shanahan went to bat for Henry at the time, saying he had passed a lie-detector test.
To say that Henry has bad luck would be a tremendous understatement if the guy wasn't constantly begging to get in trouble.
The harsh reality is that when you decide to sell multiple kilograms of an illegal substance on the open market, there is a legitimate chance that the police will find out and decide that you would look much nicer in handcuffs.
That's the situation that Henry finds himself in, and frankly, without being too judgmental, it shouldn't be all that surprising to anyone who has followed his career over the past few years.
