Former Nets guard Tyshawn Taylor was arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit money order to gain $1,000 from a Hoboken, New Jersey super market, according to the New York Daly News.
Taylor reportedly turned himself in to Hoboken police on August 6th, almost three months after the incident happened on May 18th.
Luisiana Jimenez, the daughter of store owner Luis Jimenez, said that she and her father have known Taylor and his family for years and tried to get in contact with them when she discovered the money order was fake instead of calling police.
“When we went to deposit the order they said it was fake,” Jimenez said. “When we told him about it, he said, ‘Yeah, I’m going to come to pay it back.’ We called him several times and he never paid it back. We even contacted his mother in Florida and she said she would handle it and that she would talk to him and nothing. All this stuff with police and still he won’t pay.”
Jimenez said because of the relationship that they had with Tyshawn and his family, they were reluctant to press charges, but eventually did in late July.
“My dad has been here 27 years and has always helped his family when they needed food, when they were short,” Jimenez said. “He always made sure they had something. If it was anybody else, he would have filed the complaint the next day but he tried to give him as many chances as he could. It’s not only the money. It’s the way he’s been so ungrateful about the whole situation. That’s what hurts the most. He just doesn’t want to pay and he’s been very arrogant about it.”
Tyshawn Taylor had a short lived NBA career, playing 1.5 seasons with the Nets before dropping out of the league. He currently plays in Puerto Rico.
Taylor you may remember as the player who “accidentally bumped,” into then Nets head coach Jason Kidd, causing him to drop a cup of soda with 8.3 seconds left in a game against the Lakers in 2013 causing a stoppage on the floor.
Kidd was caught by TV cameras saying to Taylor “hit me.”
