Why Is G League Player Chance Comanche Arrested?
Chance Comanche, a player with the Stockton Kings, a G-League affiliate of the Sacramento Kings, was taken into custody by the FBI and is allegedly charged with first-degree abduction. The Kings have waived him; he is expected in court on Tuesday.
Why Is G League Player Chance Comanche Arrested?
The large 27-year-old male is reportedly linked to a lady who vanished in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The lady, known as Marayna Rodgers, vanished on Wednesday. She is a medical assistant in Washington.
Marayna Rodgers, a Washington native, disappeared on December 6 while travelling to Sin City and getting into a car with her 19-year-old companion Sakari Harnden, according to KLAS.
A G League player from the Stockton Kings was arrested by the FBI in connection with a woman's disappearance in Las Vegas
27-year-old Chance Comanche is now in custody facing kidnapping charges and has been released by the Stockton Kings pic.twitter.com/U7pGjIsv05
— NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) December 17, 2023
A G League match took place in Henderson, Nevada, fifteen miles away from Las Vegas, where Comanche was playing the night before Rodgers was last seen and went missing.
Shortly after his arrest, he was let loose from the Sacramento Kings’ developmental club, the Stockton Kings.
The NBA and the Kings organisation have both been contacted by The Post.
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Chance Comanche is being held in a Sacramento jail on first-degree abduction allegations. Thus yet, neither the NBA nor the Sacramento Kings have released a statement.
Sakari Harnden, a friend of Rodgers’, has also been detained and is scheduled to appear in court twice this week, according to the New York Post.
“A criminal complaint accused Harnden of ‘detaining Rogers against her will and without her consent for the purpose of killing her and/or inflicting bodily harm,'” the New York Post reports, citing 8 News Now as a source.
Kings G League player Chance Comanche arrested By FBI Charged with first degree Kidnapping pic.twitter.com/FIq9zl0gqu
— BIGMANSHANE1710 (@BIGMANSHANE1) December 17, 2023
Less than twenty-four hours after Rodgers disappeared, Comanche was in Portland, Oregon for the Kings’ game against the Rip City Remix on December 7.
How long Comanche stayed in Las Vegas is unknown.
Judge Diana Sullivan of Las Vegas Justice Court set a $500,000 bail for Harnden the next day, with strict restrictions including high-level electronic monitoring. Harnden is scheduled to appear in court on December 19 for the theft accusation and on December 28 for the abduction case.
Sacramento Kings G League player Chance Comanche arrested by FBI in connection to woman’s disappearance in Las Vegas https://t.co/EthjDjqCfo pic.twitter.com/7yR5tPSUuU
— New York Post (@nypost) December 17, 2023
Chance Comanche, a graduate of Beverley Hills High School, enrolled in the University of Arizona in 2015. In his time playing basketball for Beverley Hills, he averaged 20.1 points, 16.0 rebounds, and 4.0 blocks per game.
His collegiate stats with Arizona, however, weren’t all that great—he dropped to 4.9 points per game and 2.8 rebounds per game. He chose to enter the draft after spending two years there, but he was not selected, and he has since played almost exclusively in the G-League.
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