[CBFF] AP - Johnson receives one-game suspension

[Jerry Madsen]

Updated: Dec. 19, 2006, 7:38 PM ET
Johnson receives one-game suspension

Associated Press

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Bears suspended troubled defensive tackle Tank
Johnson for one game Tuesday, almost a week after he was arrested for
the third time in the last 18 months.

Johnson was arrested on misdemeanor weapons charges Thursday and the
next day he was at a night club when his friend was shot to death.

General manager Jerry Angelo said Johnson was suspended for conduct
detrimental to the team and will not play Sunday against Detroit.

"I don't believe the team has to tell me it's my last chance, I know
the opportunity that I have in front of me and it's great, it's
immense and to squander that opportunity would be a tragedy at this
point and that's not gonna happen," Johnson said at a news conference
at the Bears' practice facility in Lake Forest.

Angelo said the organization felt it was not the right decision to cut Johnson.

"He crossed the line and we acted on that," Angelo said

He said Johnson would undergo counseling.

"We feel he has taken active steps we feel are good," Angelo said.

Johnson was arrested after a Thursday raid on his home in north
suburban Gurnee in which police found six unregistered firearms.

A day later, Angelo had issued a warning to Johnson and the player
publicly apologized. That night, he went to Ice Bar in Chicago's River
North area with his friend and bodyguard Willie B. Posey, who was shot
to death.

How Johnson's latest arrest will affect an earlier probation is not
clear. He is scheduled for a court date Jan. 9.

Johnson was sentenced to 18 months' probation and 40 hours community
service in November 2005, after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor
charge stemming from an arrest in which a nightclub valet reported
seeing him with a handgun in his sport utility vehicle.

Johnson also was arrested last February after a confrontation outside
a Chicago nightclub, but those charges were dropped after the police
officer he allegedly fought with decided not to pursue the case.

Johnson was inactive Sunday when the Bears beat Tampa Bay 34-31 in
overtime to clinch home-field advantage in the NFC playoffs. Johnson
has been a starter at defensive tackle along with Tommie Harris, who
will miss the rest of the season after surgery on a torn hamstring
muscle.

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press



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