INDIANAPOLIS — Former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez was pepper-sprayed and stabbed multiple times during a late-night altercation with a 69-year-old truck driver in a downtown Indianapolis alley, which resulted in criminal charges against the Fox Sports analyst, according to court records filed Sunday.
The charges against him were escalated to felony battery on Monday, ESPN wrote. The punishment for the Level 5 felony, which involves “serious bodily injury,” is between one to six years behind bars, according to Marion County prosector Ryan Mears.
As details from video footage of the incident emerged, photos of the gashed face of Sanchez’s alleged victim circulated. Click to see them here (but be warned they are disturbing).
Based on hotel video footage of the altercation early Saturday and the driver’s statement to police, a police affidavit alleges that Sanchez, smelling of alcohol, accosted the driver of a box truck that backed into a hotel’s loading docks, leading to a confrontation outside the vehicle that prompted the driver to defensively pull out a knife.
Sanchez was hospitalized with stab wounds to his upper right torso, the affidavit signed by a police detective said. Sanchez remained hospitalized early Sunday, according to police. The truck driver, identified as P.T., had a cut to his left cheek, it said.
