Police arrested a former University of Iowa basketball star in Cedar Rapids early Friday morning.
Roy Marble Jr., 43, was arrested at 12:01 a.m. after a traffic stop in the 600 block of Second Avenue SE, according to police logs. He is charged with driving while barred, no insurance and using an improper license plate light.
Police Sgt. Cristy Hamblin, a police spokeswoman, said an officer on routine patrol noticed a Ford Expedition change lanes quickly on Seventh Street SE. The vehicle did not have a rear license plate light, so the officer stopped the vehicle. Marble was driving.
Marble is Iowa’s all-time leading scorer with 2,116 points. He was a first-round NBA draft pick of the Atlanta Hawks in 1989, but was suspended a year later for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. He finished his professional career with 55 points in 29 games.
Last August, Marble was arrested in after a Cedar County deputy found marijuana and an open can of beer in his car during a traffic stop. A week later, he was fired as program director for the Iowa City Mayor’s Youth Empowerment Program.
Cedar Rapids police have arrested Marble four times in the last six years, Hamblin said.
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