Quinton Dunbar’s attorney to Miami Herald: Seahawks CB was ‘in no way involved’ in robbery
The lawyer defending Quinton Dunbar against four felony charges of armed robbery in south Florida has told the Miami Herald the Seahawks cornerback has sworn statements from five witnesses saying he was not involved in the alleged incident.
Miami defensive attorney Michael Grieco told the Herald Friday that five witnesses to robberies at a party Wednesday night at a residence in Miarmar, north of Dunbar’s native Miami, say in sworn affidavits “that Dunbar was in no way involved.”
Grieco told the Herald he presented the five affidavits from the witnesses to the Broward State Attorney’s office.
But prosecutors are continuing to require Dunbar turn himself in to be jailed per an arrest warrant filed Thursday in Broward County with what a Miramar police detective found as probable cause.
A message left by The News Tribune after hours Florida time on Friday with a spokesperson for the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit of Florida, the jurisdiction for the Broward State Attorney’s office, was not immediately returned.
“All of the affidavits indicate my client is innocent,” Grieco told the Herald.
“I have never in my career seen a police department so excited about arresting a celebrity.”
The Herald reported the lawyer “could not immediately say when Dunbar would surrender.
As of 5:30 p.m. Friday in Miramar, Dunbar remained at large. He and New York Giants cornerback Deandre Baker had not turned themselves into authorities stemming from robberies at the party at a house late Wednesday in Miramar, 20 minutes north of the Overtown section of Miami where Dunbar grew up.
Shaheed Samuel, the agent the NFL Players’ Association lists as Dunbar’s representative, answered a call from The News Tribune Friday afternoon. Then he said “I’m tied up right now” and was unable to talk.
Asked if he knew Dunbar’s whereabouts or status, Samuel hung up.
Police are giving what the department spokesperson has termed a reasonable time for Dunbar and Baker to surrender to authorities. After that, officers will go find them.
“The detectives are speaking with the parties of the athletes...trying to make arrangements to turn themselves in,” Public Information Officer Tania Rues of the Miramar Police Department told the TNT Thursday evening.
This story will be updated.
This story was originally published May 15, 2020 at 2:46 PM.
