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Ex-NHLer Billy Tibbetts adds to lengthy legal history with another arrest

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Ex-NHLer Billy Tibbetts adds to lengthy legal history with another arrest

Legal problems continue to follow ex-NHLer Billy Tibbetts.

The 51-year-old former forward was arrested Tuesday at a Massachusetts motel for allegedly violating a protective order tied to a harassment claim, according to the Times Leader.

A warrant reportedly had been issued on Feb. 4 by a Massachusetts judge, with Pennsylvania among the neighboring states listed for extradition.

Pittsburgh Penguins player Billy Tibbetts fighting Florida Panthers player Joey Tetarenko during a hockey game.

Pittsburgh Penguins right wing Billy Tibbetts, left, and Florida Panthers defenseman Joey Tetarenko (36) fight during the third period Friday, March 16, 2001, in Sunrise, Fla. The Penguins beat the Panthers 6-3. AP

U.S. Marshals and Plains Township police arrested Tibbetts at a Red Roof Inn on Route 315, per the Times Leader, and he was arraigned before being released on $25,000 bail.

He has an extradition hearing scheduled for March 25.

Tibbetts, who reportedly now resides in Rhode Island, is a Boston native who appeared in 82 games across four NHL seasons from 2000-03.

He played in 62 games for the Penguins over two seasons before joining the Flyers for nine games in the 2001-02 campaign.

Tibbetts wrapped up his career with 11 games for the 2002-03 Rangers, failing to tally a single point.

In his career, he scored two goals and added eight assists for 10 total points.

Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Billy Tibbetts, wearing glasses and a hooded jacket, with a wide, open-mouthed expression.

Billy Tibbetts in a recent Facebook video. Billy Tibbetts / Facebook

This arrest is the latest in a lengthy history of run-ins with the law.

Tibbetts pleaded guilty in 1994 to raping a 15-year-old girl when he was 17, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

One year later, he was arraigned for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, per ESPN.

He reportedly served 39 months in jail for violating his probation before being paroled in 1999.

In 2007, police arrested him on multiple charges following a high-speed car chase, per Boston.com.

Right wing Billy Tibbetts #12 of the Pittsburgh Penguins skates on the ice.

Billy Tibbetts during a 2001 game with the Penguins. Getty Images/NHLI

Tibbetts was arrested twice in 2019, per the Tribune-Review.

He spent two months in jail for harassing a Massachusetts police chief, according to The Patriot Ledger.

Shortly after exiting jail, he was reportedly arrested on drug charges in Boston.

Police claimed that Tibbetts possessed a “small, white, rock-like substance believed to be crack cocaine, per the Patriot Ledger.

That arrest landed him another yearlong jail sentence since it reportedly violated the terms of his probation.

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