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12-01-2006, 04:24 PM
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It’s a steal!: Pacman Jones wins seized car that bears his name
By Jared Allen, jallen@nashvillecitypaper.com
December 01, 2006
Imagine you just scored a $77,000 car for a cool $48,500. Now imagine that the car — a candy apple red 2004 Cadillac XLR Roadster Convertible — already has your nickname embroidered on the steering column.
Now if you had spent your weekend racking up two interceptions and helping your team mount the biggest comeback of the NFL season, you’d be a pretty happy guy, right?
Well, you’ll have to ask Titans cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones just how he feels about it all.
After being the star of the Titans 24-point fourth quarter comeback against the New York Giants, Jones was the big winner of an online police auction that ended Thursday.
The big-ticket item? The 2004 Cadillac Roadster that was seized by the 20th Judicial Drug Task Force in a cocaine bust of rapper Darryl Jerome Moore.
Luckily for Jones, the car only had his name stitched into the leather headrests – it didn’t actually legally belong to him, authorities said.
That meant that the Titans’ 2005 first round draft pick was free to bid on the car.
But it was no walk in the park for Jones. First of all, he had to contend with the fact that the bidding ended at 1 p.m. Thursday – right in the middle of Titans practice.
So Jones registered for the auction – using the online handle “Standupguy” – and had an associate up the ante as necessary down the stretch, according to auction manager Kenneth Eads.
Then, of course, Jones had to outlast 26 other bidders, many who made the first three weeks of the auction feel much like the first three quarters of last weekend’s game against the Giants.
The bidding started at $1 on Nov. 9. But even before the first day was done the price had soared to $23,100.
Jones didn’t even get his name into the mix until the last day of the auction, when he opened Thursday’s bidding with a promise of $43,000 – besting the previous bid by $100.
For seven straight hours Jones had it out with three other bidders.
In fact, Jones’ proxy bidder entered 13 bids in the auction’s final 10 minutes before finally being able to declare victory.
Eads said that no other Metro police auction item had ever drawn so much interest.
Perhaps it was because of the car itself — which looks as much like a candy apple red Batmobile as anything else. Or perhaps it was because it was associated – somehow – with the Titans defensive back who has a history of encounters with Middle Tennessee law enforcement.
At the time of the cocaine bust of Moore, the car’s registered owner, Metro Police said Jones was not involved in the drug ring, but was an acquaintance of Moore’s.
The $48,500 that Jones paid for his friend’s car will go back to the Drug Task Force.
As of Thursday evening, there was no word on what Jones plans to do with his new ride – Jones was unavailable for comment.
Staff writer Terry McCormick contributed to this story.
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It’s a steal!: Pacman Jones wins seized car that bears his name
By Jared Allen, jallen@nashvillecitypaper.com
December 01, 2006
Imagine you just scored a $77,000 car for a cool $48,500. Now imagine that the car — a candy apple red 2004 Cadillac XLR Roadster Convertible — already has your nickname embroidered on the steering column.
Now if you had spent your weekend racking up two interceptions and helping your team mount the biggest comeback of the NFL season, you’d be a pretty happy guy, right?
Well, you’ll have to ask Titans cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones just how he feels about it all.
After being the star of the Titans 24-point fourth quarter comeback against the New York Giants, Jones was the big winner of an online police auction that ended Thursday.
The big-ticket item? The 2004 Cadillac Roadster that was seized by the 20th Judicial Drug Task Force in a cocaine bust of rapper Darryl Jerome Moore.
Luckily for Jones, the car only had his name stitched into the leather headrests – it didn’t actually legally belong to him, authorities said.
That meant that the Titans’ 2005 first round draft pick was free to bid on the car.
But it was no walk in the park for Jones. First of all, he had to contend with the fact that the bidding ended at 1 p.m. Thursday – right in the middle of Titans practice.
So Jones registered for the auction – using the online handle “Standupguy” – and had an associate up the ante as necessary down the stretch, according to auction manager Kenneth Eads.
Then, of course, Jones had to outlast 26 other bidders, many who made the first three weeks of the auction feel much like the first three quarters of last weekend’s game against the Giants.
The bidding started at $1 on Nov. 9. But even before the first day was done the price had soared to $23,100.
Jones didn’t even get his name into the mix until the last day of the auction, when he opened Thursday’s bidding with a promise of $43,000 – besting the previous bid by $100.
For seven straight hours Jones had it out with three other bidders.
In fact, Jones’ proxy bidder entered 13 bids in the auction’s final 10 minutes before finally being able to declare victory.
Eads said that no other Metro police auction item had ever drawn so much interest.
Perhaps it was because of the car itself — which looks as much like a candy apple red Batmobile as anything else. Or perhaps it was because it was associated – somehow – with the Titans defensive back who has a history of encounters with Middle Tennessee law enforcement.
At the time of the cocaine bust of Moore, the car’s registered owner, Metro Police said Jones was not involved in the drug ring, but was an acquaintance of Moore’s.
The $48,500 that Jones paid for his friend’s car will go back to the Drug Task Force.
As of Thursday evening, there was no word on what Jones plans to do with his new ride – Jones was unavailable for comment.
Staff writer Terry McCormick contributed to this story.