Ex-NBA star Rajon Rondo is arrested in Indiana on firearm and drug charges ‘after trooper smelled marijuana in his car’: Two-time champ ‘is not allowed to posses a gun due to 2022 protective order filed against him by ex-partner’

Former NBA guard Rajon Rondo was arrested over the weekend on gun and drug charges in rural Indiana, a local television station announced Monday night.

As WDRB-TV reported, the 37-year-old two-time NBA champion is facing firearms, drug paraphernalia and marijuana charges after being pulled over for a traffic violation. When an officer smelled marijuana, a search was initiated that resulted in the discovery of the weapon and drug paraphernalia, Indiana State Police spokesman Sergeant Stephen Wheeles told WDRB.

Wheeles did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment Tuesday morning.

According to WDRB-TV, the former Boston Celtics star is banned from carrying a firearm due to a 2022 restraining order. Ashley Bachelor, Rondo’s ex-partner and mother of his children, filed the emergency protective order against him after he allegedly brandished a gun during an argument about their son.

In June 2022, the two sides reached an agreement and a judge dismissed the petition, but as WDRB reports, Rondo remains prohibited from owning a firearm.

Bachelor claimed Rondo “became irate,” prompting her to file with the EPO in Jefferson County (Kentucky) Family Court in 2022. She says in the EPO that Rondo was playing video games with their son when she asked the child to separate his laundry. so she could wash the family’s clothes.

When the child got up to do so, Rondo ripped the video game console out of the wall, went downstairs, smashed a teacup, knocked over several water bottles and started yelling and cursing, she alleged. According to the EPO, Rondo then went outside and knocked over the rubbish bins, switched on the garden lights and drove his car onto the lawn.

Bachelor then confronted Rondo, suing the EPO, at which point he allegedly said, “You’re dead.”

After briefly leaving the house, Rondo returned and banged a gun on a window. Bachelor said in the EPO that the player yelled at the children and asked them why they were afraid of him when he had a gun in his hand.

Bachelor called former interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Yvette Gentry, who eventually arrived at the house. However, the woman said Rondo would not let Gentry inside. Bachelor said she locked herself in the house with the children, and Gentry eventually told her that Rondo had left and that she had his gun.

Two days after the alleged incident occurred, a judge granted Bachelor the protective order. The judge ordered Rondo not to communicate and to stay at least 500 feet away from her.

In her EPO, Bachelor said she feared for her children’s safety and her own, adding that Rondo had verbally abused their daughter and abused their son both physically and verbally.

Rajon Rondo performing with Ashley Bachelor in 2012 when he was with the Boston Celtics

In June 2022, the two sides reached an agreement and a judge dismissed the petition (photo), but as WDRB reports, Rondo remains prohibited from owning a firearm

Rondo (center right) next to (from left) Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Kendrick Perkins

“I am extremely afraid for my safety and for the safety of my children,” she said. ‘Rajon has a history of volatile, erratic and explosive behavior. He is verbally, emotionally and financially abusive. He physically hits our son, calling him a ”p****” and accusing him of acting like a ”b****”’.

‘Rajon verbally attacks our daughter. He calls her names like ‘thot, b**** and d***head.’ Rajon has threatened my life several times and at several times said he will shoot me or shoot up my car.”

The Louisville native played three seasons at Kentucky before being drafted in the first round of the 2006 NBA Draft and then played nine seasons for the Celtics. He had become a crucial starter and extraordinary defensive presence in Boston, where he would win an NBA title in 2008.

Rondo eventually bounced from the Dallas Mavericks to the Sacramento Kings, Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Pelicans and Los Angeles Lakers, for whom he would win a second NBA title in 2020. Rondo finished his career with stints in Atlanta, LA and Cleveland.