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Investigators search Iverson's house to look for gun

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Thu Jul 11, 2:09 PM ET
By MICHAEL RUBINKAM, Associated Press Writer

PHILADELPHIA - Police searched Allen Iverson's mansion and his uncle's home Thursday as they investigated accusations the NBA star forced his away into a cousin's apartment with a gun.

About 10 police investigators went to Iverson's suburban house, looking for "handguns, phones, telephone records, auto repairs, photographs," court documents showed.

Police also searched the downtown apartment of Iverson's uncle, Greg Iverson, who they believe was with the Philadelphia 76ers' guard the night they are accused of going to an apartment complex with a gun.

The developments came a day after prosecutors said they were considering whether Iverson should be charged with threatening two men while looking for his wife at the complex where his cousin lives.

Iverson and his wife, Tawanna, had been involved in a fight that spanned two days. At one point, Iverson threw his wife out of their mansion, according to tapes of a 911 call obtained by The Philadelphia Inquirer. Tawanna Iverson and another man had fled Iverson's home and were in hiding, according to the report.

Police presented their case to the district attorney's office Wednesday. Detectives believe they have sufficient evidence to charge Iverson with aggravated assault — a felony — terrorist threats and related offenses.

"We came to the conclusion that the investigation would continue," said Cathie Abookire, a spokeswoman for District Attorney Lynne Abraham.

Iverson shot baskets with family and friends on a court outside his mansion Wednesday.

Iverson and his wife of 11 months have not commented publicly. His lawyers did not return phone calls and Iverson ignored reporters who shouted questions to him at his home.

Iverson, a former league MVP, is accused of going to the Cobbs Creek Court apartment complex to look for Tawanna and cousin, Shaun Bowman, who lives there. Neither was there, said Charles Jones, who has lived in the apartment since March.

Jones made the 911 call more than 10 hours later, the Inquirer reported.

It wasn't clear how Jones obtained his information about the Iversons' fight. During the 911 call, Jones said Iverson had threatened to kill his wife and shoot Jones, the Inquirer reported.

Jones met with police Tuesday and told reporters Iverson had a gun when he forced his way inside the apartment early on July 3 and threatened Jones and another man.

Police said Iverson has no gun permit, nor does he have a gun registered in Pennsylvania.

Iverson, whose dazzling play and bad-boy image have made him enormously popular, has had other brushes with the law.

As a teen-ager, he was arrested in a Hampton, Virginia, bowling alley brawl in 1993 and spent four months in prison before then-Gov. Douglas Wilder granted clemency. The conviction was overturned on appeal in 1995.

In 1997, Iverson pleaded no contest to a gun charge after police near Richmond, Virginia, stopped a car in which he was a passenger and found a gun belonging to him and two marijuana cigarettes. A marijuana-possession charge was dropped.

Iverson completed 100 hours of community service, two years of drug testing and three years' probation, after which his record was cleared.

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