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PBA import thrashes hotel, assaults cops
Raging cager ‘lost savings’ to 3 women
By Jeannette I. Andrade
Philippine Daily Inquirer
2:42 am | Thursday, March 28th, 2013



‘WHAT SHOULD I TELL MOM?’ Behind bars and allegedly robbed of his savings, PBA bigman Jamelle Cornley of Columbus, Ohio, says this is his biggest concern. MARIANNE BERMUDEZ


He committed his most flagrant fouls off the court.

An American professional basketball player, a prized import who led the Rain or Shine team to a Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) crown last year, was thrown into jail early Wednesday for insulting and attacking a team of policemen who came to arrest him for causing a disturbance at a Quezon City hotel.

Out of the 10 policemen who rushed to the hotel, one was reportedly knocked unconscious by a punch from the 6’5” Jamelle Cornley, 25.

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Seeing the officers, Cornley began the second-half of his violent streak.

He allegedly resisted arrest and let loose a mouthful at a team led by the station commander, Supt. Marcelino Pedrozo.

Before he was subdued and handcuffed by Pedrozo’s men, the American allegedly threw a punch and knocked out PO2 Anselmo Lasatin, who had to be taken to East Avenue Hospital for treatment.

Once at the Kamuning station, it required 10 more men to drag Cornley into the detention cell.

“I was trying to get his side and help him because he said he was a victim of theft. But he kept on insulting me and would neither cooperate nor file a report on the incident,” Pedrozo later said in an interview.

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He recalled that one of the policemen—later identified as Lasatin—tried to pacify him but he was still raging over his stolen money.

“I told him (Lasatin) ‘Don’t you touch me. Don’t you f—ing touch me.’ I told him that 10 times I think. But he did not listen. I shoved him to the floor but he acted as if I had hit him. I saw him lift his head several times and take a peek. When everybody was looking and bringing him to the hospital, he pretended to be knocked out,” Cornley said.

He maintained that it was his first time to be in trouble with the police but that it was the least of his concerns.

“I am concerned about losing the money I painstakingly saved. What is embarrassing is what I should tell my mother about this,” he said, adding that he was scheduled to fly home to Columbus, Ohio, on Easter Sunday.

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