Timberwolves Player Pleads Guilty To Felony Threats Of Violence

Minneapolis MN

21 December, 2020

8:22 PM

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HENNEPIN COUNTY, MN — Minnesota Timberwolves player Malik Beasley pleaded guilty to a felony count of threats of violence Monday after he was accused of pointing a rifle at a family near his home in September. "I've learned my lesson," Beasley said in a remote hearing Monday afternoon, according to the Hennepin County Attorney's Office. Plymouth police said that on Sept. 26 just before 3 p.m., officers were called to a home in the 18500 block of County Road 6 on a report of a man pointing an assault rifle at a family. Two parents said they were on a "Parade of Homes" tour with their 13-year-old when they pulled up to the roped-off residence. Assuming it was closed, the family decided to look for another home to view, the complaint states. While the family was on the shoulder of the road in front of the roped-off house, "they heard a tapping on the window of their car and looked up to see the barrel of an assault rifle on the window of their car," the complaint states. It was Beasley, who told them to "Get the f--- off my property!" the complaint continues. The family pulled onto the road, but Beasley continued to point his rifle at their car as they drove away, police said. During photo lineups later, the family identified Beasley as the man with the assault rifle, authorities said. After getting a search warrant for Beasley's house, officers said they found three guns, including an assault rifle, according to the complaint. Police also found more than 835 grams — or nearly 2 pounds — of marijuana in home, investigators said. Police reviewed the home's own surveillance footage, which showed Beasley grabbing an assault rifle from his mudroom closet at 2:50 p.m. that day and walking out of his garage, according to authorities. Beasley's wife, Montana Yao, said the marijuana was hers and said she purchased it from a store that sells medical marijuana, "but did not know where it was located and could not produce any documentation that she can possess medical marijuana," the complaint said. "The marijuana recovered was in its original leafy form, which cannot be legally possessed in Minnesota," the complaint said. Yao still faces a fifth-degree drug possession charge, and her next court appearance is Dec. 29.