For the last few years, former NFL quarterback William “Jeff” Komlo lived a fugitive’s life, hiding from drug, alcohol, assault, fraud and potential arson charges in Florida and Pennsylvania. Finally, a car crash in Greece on March 14, 2009, ended the saga. Once the FBI identified the victim as Komlo, the search for the fugitive who had appeared on American’s Most Wanted was finally over.
Over two decades, the man his university football coach described as a “fine man” deteriorated into someone who hid from law enforcement officials, who was charged with assaulting his girlfriend and cocaine possession, a man who wrecked two cars on the same night in 2004, resulting in drunken driving charges. When fires destroyed one of his homes and damaged another, investigators suspected arson. In 2005, a business partner was charged with fraud totaling $1.4 million, some of which appeared to have been moved into Komlo’s business account.
That’s a dramatic tumble from the high point of quarterbacking for the Detroit Lions and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Even the accident in Greece that took his life was reported to be the result of drunk driving, according to a Pennsylvania District Attorney.
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