A department spokesman of the Bristol County Sheriff's office said on Wednesday that former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was involved in an altercation at the county's House of Correction and Jail in Massachusetts. The ex-National Football League star reportedly got into an incident with another inmate.
Bernie Sullivan said that the 24 year-old had an altercation with an unnamed inmate, and that the Sheriff's Office has launched a probe regarding the incident. Sullivan also stated that both Hernandez and the unnamed inmate did not receive serious injuries.
CNN was unable to contact Hernandez's lawyer regarding the latest update on their client.
Hernandez, said CNN, is currently detained on first-degree murder and weapons charges in relation to the fatal shooting of his friend Odin Lloyd last year. In an earlier report, the news agency said Hernandez was arrested in June last year over allegations that he killed Lloyd. CNN said Hernandez has submitted a not guilty plea to the murder charge.
According to authorities, Hernandez and two other companions picked up Lloyd from his apartment in Boston. The party drove shortly away in a rental car. Lloyd was eventually found dead with a gunshot wound on June 17 last year, the authorities added.
An February 4 report by CNN said District Attorney's Office requested the court to order the Sheriff's Office to turn over jailhouse calls and records, of which some contained coded messages Hernandez used about the killing of his friend. Lawyers of the former tight end of the New England Patriots sought legal action to quash the request, stating that the prosecution's latest strategy was a move to fish information to convict their client.
"There is absolutely no basis to provide the Commonwealth with access to all of the defendant's recorded phone calls, past, present, and future," attorneys Michael Fee and Jamie Sultan for Hernandez said in the court filing.
