Howard Eskin: Nate Allen Falsely Accused, Absolutely Nothing Happened
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) --- Eagles safety Nate Allen was detained by the Fort Myers Police department on Monday night.
While no details were released yet, 94WIP's Howard Eskin reports that Allen was falsely accused for exposing himself to a 16-year-old girl. Allen, according to Eskin, was released after the police realized he was innocent.
"It's really kind of a shame," Eskin told Angelo Cataldi and the 94WIP Morning Show on Tuesday. "The bigger story to people, which is the wrong story is that he was arrested, detained, whatever you want to call it. And then the real story is, that really nothing---absolutely nothing---happened. And that's the unfair part for a guy like that.
Listen: Howard Eskin on the 94WIP Morning Show
"Falsely accused I guess is the diplomatic way of saying it," Eskin continued. "The police down there [in Fort Myers], obviously from what I've been told, did not do a good job. Some young girl, and here's what I heard, followed him out the restaurant---you know, everybody in Fort Myers knows who Nate Allen is because that's where he grew up, that's where he's from."
Eskin says anyone that knows Allen, 27, knows he would not have done this.
"For whatever reason, just because it was a charge---you know, it was exciting for the girl----and then she told the police that he exposed himself which is ridic---if you know anything about Nate Allen it is to ridiculous to even think that," Eskin said. "He was so upset last night. Then after detaining him, then the cops took him in---call it arrested whatever---she took him in. She asked him to get into the car and took him in, it was a female police officer. Took him in and then once he got there he was questioned for at least a few hours, at least two hours, and then they realized that the story was inaccurate so they just let him go. They never finger-printed him, never took a mug shot, so he was not arrested.
"But the story gets out, so now he's gotta try to explain---which I think he will somewhere," Eskin said. "He wants to tell people what happened, because he feels so wronged in this whole situation. And he's really, really, really I mean upset---not mad---but upset that something like this could happen to him. It's nothing other than, it could happened to anyone."