A Los Angeles court docket has issued an arrest warrant for former British soccer star Daniel Sturridge over his failure to indicate up in court docket after a plaintiff filed a civil lawsuit claiming the 34-year-old owes him reward cash for locating his lacking canine.
Based on Each day Mail, the previous Manchester Metropolis star and England worldwide in July 2019 disclosed his Pomeranian canine had been stolen from his Los Angeles dwelling. He additionally provided a financial reward for anybody who would return his pet canine to him.
The plaintiff, recognized as Foster Washington, claimed he discovered the canine and returned it to Sturridge. However he stated the previous soccer star didn’t pay him the financial reward he had tabled, inflicting him to file the civil lawsuit.
Sturridge was in December 2021 initially ordered by a Los Angeles Court docket to pay Washington $30,000 after a default judgment was handed due to his failure to reply to the civil lawsuit. The court docket in September 2023 subsequently ordered him to re-appear for a “debtor’s examination.” This continuing permits a creditor to ask the debtor questions concerning the debtor’s funds in a “judicial setting.”
However since Sturridge didn’t present up, a choose served a bench warrant for his arrest, Each day Mail reported. A brand new listening to is scheduled to be held on November 30. Within the wake of the 2021 ruling, Sturridge took to X to say he had paid a reward to a younger boy who discovered his canine.
“Simply to let you realize the reality at Christmas. I met a younger boy who discovered my canine and paid him a reward, which he was delighted with, as was I to get my canine again as a result of he was stolen,” he wrote on the social media platform previously often known as Twitter.
“Different persons are making an attempt to learn for their very own private achieve. Thanks to the younger boy as soon as once more. I’m very grateful Lucci is again with our household.”
Washington, nonetheless, claims that’s not the case. “For me, it’s some extent of precept. He promised me the cash. It’s a considerable sum of money that would change my household’s life,” the plaintiff, who claims the civil lawsuit has price him $10,000, informed Each day Mail.
“He thinks he’s above the regulation. He thinks as a result of he’s wealthy he doesn’t have to reply to what’s occurring. That’s why I needed to have the choose difficulty a warrant so he has to pay the cash.”
The plaintiff’s legal professional, Thomas Scully, additionally stated that “lots of people simply resolve to disregard lawsuits for no matter motive and loads of instances they get away with it as a result of they don’t have any cash.”
Scully added: “However it doesn’t appear that Daniel Sturridge ought to get away with it. He has the cash to pay and he has the cash to rent a lawyer. He simply doesn’t really feel prefer it. He in all probability doesn’t really feel like he’s beholden to California courts and so he’s in all probability simply going to proceed ignoring it.
“However I’ve another instruments within the Californian civil process and I’m going to maintain on making an attempt to pursue with that. This isn’t the top of the story. I’m actually not giving up but.”
