PHILADELPHIA (AP) – Former NBA player Jerome “Pooh” Richardson has testified in the trial of a police-officer friend charged with tipping off a drug kingpin about a raid.
Richardson has immunity for his federal-court testimony in his hometown of Philadelphia.
He says he took a call from lifelong friend Rickie Durham hours before an August 2005 drug raid.
He recalls Durham warning that his half-sister Asya (A’-zha) Richardson and her boyfriend were ‘going down.’
Richardson says he called and told her to leave the New Jersey house she shared with kingpin Alton Coles. Both were soon arrested.
Richardson played for Minnesota, Indiana and the Los Angeles Clippers. He lives in Los Angeles.
Durham is charged with obstruction. He was a Philadelphia officer involved in the FBI’s two-state drug raid.
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