Robert Swift didn't even need college. He was selected by the Seattle Supersonics with the 12th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft, straight out of high school and ahead of players such as Jameer Nelson, Trevor Ariza, Josh Smith and Tony Allen. As recently as 2009, the 7-foot-1 center was still in the league.
Fast forward about five years.
Swift, who is now 28, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm this week after police allegedly found him living at his drug dealer's house amid a plethora of used drug paraphernalia with a sawed-off shotgun and a grenade launcher. Police say Swift told them he's a heroin addict. The house he was found in is reportedly located just 300 feet from an elementary school.
SWAT officers raided the home of 54-year-old Trygve Bjorkstam in Kirkland, Washington, early on the morning of Oct. 4, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Prosecutors say Bjorkstam was Swift's drug dealer, then the two became roommates, and that Swift was helping Bjorkstam collect a heroin debt from someone else. Bjorkstam is now facing federal gun and drug charges, according to the Post-Intelligencer.
“People have been ripping me off,” Bjorkstam reportedly told police. “Rob and I are trying to put a stop to that.”
Police allegedly found drugs and drug paraphernalia scattered throughout the house, as well as a sawed-off shotgun in Swift's bedroom. A 40-mm grenade launcher was reportedly found in a safe in Swift's bedroom. Police allegedly found 17 more guns, including three assault rifles, in a safe in Bjorkstam's bedroom.
Swift did not admit to dealing drugs himself, but allegedly told investigators that he was a heroin addict, a daily user of the drug and Bjorkstam was his dealer.
As a senior at Highland High School in Bakersfield, California, Swift was rated as the 14th-best basketball prospect in the class of 2004, ahead of future NBA stars including LaMarcus Aldridge, Rajon Rondo, Kyle Lowry and Al Horford. He made some $10 million in his NBA career, according to The Seattle Times.
So where did it all go wrong for Robert Swift? That's hard to say, but an event last year foreshadowed his arrest this autumn.
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