Remember the teenage boy that Barry Bonds usually bearhugged at home plate after hitting most of his record setting/breaking home runs earlier this decade?
Well that boy is a little older now. And judging by his criminal record, he’s become a fine, upstanding young man.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Nikolai Bonds, 20, reached a plea agreement with San Mateo County prosecutors today, just days before he was scheduled to stand trial for five misdemeanor charges, which include: battery, false imprisonment, vandalism, making threats to an officer and obstructing an officer in the performance of duties.
Apparently young Nikolai has roid rage a temper problem.
Prosecutors said Bonds got into an argument with his mother, Sun Bonds, 45, the morning of Dec. 5 at her home on Valparaiso Avenue in Menlo Park over whether some of his friends had taken jewelry from the house.
During the argument, authorities said, Bonds spit in his mother’s face, broke two crystal bowls, threw a door handle across the room and prevented his mother from leaving through the front door. When police arrived, Bonds threatened a Menlo Park officer and his family, prosecutors said.
If convicted of the five original charges, Bonds could have faced up to two years in jail.
The story gets better. Sun moved to the East Coast because she wanted nothing to do with the situation and just wanted it “all to go away.” According to the report, without her testimony, prosecutors did not believe that they could get convictions on all the charges, hence the plea deal.
So basically, this kid will only have to serve four days in jail (the judge in his case granted him credit for time already served) and pay fines totaling $2,130 because his mother didn’t want to be bothered with the situation. Oh, and he’ll also have to undergo 32 hours of anger management counseling, as well. I’m thinking he’ll get a lot out of those classes.
Every family is a little nutty, but the Bonds’ clan may take the cake.
