Running back Adrian Peterson has been arrested on suspicion of felony domestic violence following an incident that occurred in Los Angeles over the weekend.
On Sunday, Peterson and his wife had boarded a flight to Houston that had yet to depart when the event was alleged to have occurred. The plane turned around on the tarmac and Peterson was taken into custody at Los Angeles International Airport. TMZ was the first to report the story.
“I was literally mind-blown that they took me to jail,” Peterson said via Mark Berman of Fox 26. “They were like, ‘I’m sorry, Mr. Peterson, but because she had a scratch on her finger, (in) the state of California, we have to take you in.’ I sit there and watch the plane pull back and take off and I’m just like, ‘Wow! I cannot believe this is happening right now. I’m going to jail, and I literally didn’t do anything.’”
