Ex-NFL player Stanley Wilson II was sentenced to 10 days in jail Monday for trying to burglarizing a Southwest Portland mansion while naked — prompting the terrified, elderly homeowner to shoot Wilson in the abdomen last summer.
The case sparked media national attention and one big question: Just why did the 33-year-old Stanford alumnus and former Detroit Lions cornerback with no prior criminal history act out so bizarrely?
Court records indicate Wilson has been battling a drug problem, which includes methamphetamine use.
“This is his primary problem, and we want him to focus on his primary problem,” said prosecutor Glen Banfield.
Banfield said in addition to the jail time, which Wilson has already served after his arrest, Wilson will undergo an assessment of his drug problem and be ordered to any necessary treatment. He will be on three years of probation, and if he fails to embrace treatment during that time, he faces a six-month jail sentence.
Wilson had been scheduled to go to trial this week, but Monday, during an unscheduled court hearing, Wilson suddenly entered a no contest plea to the attempted first-degree burglary of a home in the 4900 block of Southwest Humphrey Boulevard on the afternoon of June 22, 2016. Police say he had inexplicably stripped off his clothes and tried to gain access to the house through a window, when the homeowner — 78-year-old Robert McCall — shot him through the glass.
Police arrived to find Wilson standing, still naked, in a fountain of the home. A grand jury ruled the shooting justified.
Wilson also pleaded no contest to first-degree burglary, for making his way into a home in the 3800 block of Southwest Hillside Drive earlier in the day on June 22. Investigators say he poured himself a cocktail, stole a book and left before the homeowner returned home.
Court papers say Wilson also walked into or lurked in the yards of two other homes in the upscale neighborhoods surrounding Council Crest that same day. Wilson lived in a rental home in the area.
After the shooting that afternoon, Wilson spent days in the hospital before being booked into jail and released. Banfield, the prosecutor, declined to say whether Wilson was high on drugs at the time of the burglary and attempted burglary, but court records indicate that Wilson was ordered to undergo random urine screenings for drugs while he was awaiting trial.
Wilson tested positive for methamphetamine in November. He again appeared to be on drugs when he was caught roaming naked around an unspecified neighborhood on Jan. 10, according to a report written by a deputy who was supervising Wilson.
Monday, Multnomah County Circuit Judge Eric Bloch also ordered Wilson to pay $2,500 in restitution to the homeowner who shot him, for property repairs that include the shattered window. Wilson also must write apology letters to all four homes that he targeted on June 22.
Wilson played football for Stanford University before being drafted as a cornerback in 2005 for the Detroit Lions, where he played three seasons, according to NFL.com. His professional football career fizzled in 2008 after an injury.
For 2008, the younger Wilson’s last year in the NFL, he signed a contract for a salary of $927,000, according to spotrac.com.
Wilson’s father, Stanley Wilson Sr., also played professional football. He was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals through the 1983 draft. But his career was marred by cocaine use — and he ultimately was sentenced to 22 years in prison after burglarizing a Beverly Hills, Calif., home of $130,000 in valuables, according to The Dallas Morning News and The Los Angeles Times.
— Aimee Green
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