⚖️ Man arrested at LeBron James' LA home on stalking suspicion

Police arrested a man on suspicion of felony stalking at LeBron James' Brentwood home on Friday night, Nov. 6, NBC News reported. The call came in just after 9:30 p.m. as a possible burglary suspect, according to NBC News, which cites Los Angeles police.

Who says what

Security personnel spotted the man on surveillance cameras and called police, law enforcement sources told NBC Los Angeles, per NBC News. Responding officers found him, and those same sources said he claimed to be James' son. That detail rests on anonymous sourcing: NBC News attributes it to NBC Los Angeles, and MyNewsLA attributes it to TMZ, which cites law enforcement sources.

MyNewsLA, quoting LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman of the Media Relations Division, gives a slightly different dispatch time of 9:40 p.m. and the 500 block of North Tigertail Road. Eisenman said the man was taken into custody and arrested on suspicion of felony stalking. NBC News says authorities did not identify him. The reports read do not give a booking record, a bail figure or a formal charge.

The response

No public response from James or his representatives appears in the reports read. The man's side is also missing: he is unnamed, and no lawyer or statement is reported. Per MyNewsLA, the department would not confirm the home belongs to James.

What happens next

None of the reports read gives a court date, a charging decision or a statement from the league. An arrest on suspicion is not a charge. It is the opening line of the file, not the verdict.

Backstory

The Los Angeles Times has reported on James' Brentwood property holdings. Citing property records, it said a limited liability company linked to him paid $23 million for a newly built mansion there, after buying another Brentwood home for about $21 million two years earlier. The reports read do not say which house was involved on Friday.

The address has drawn trouble before. CBS Sports reported in May 2017 that James' Los Angeles home had been vandalized with a racial slur, and James addressed it publicly the same day. That was a different incident and has no stated link to this arrest.

The reports read contain no data on how stalking or trespass cases against celebrities have ended, so MrMuscles will not guess at a scoreboard.

As of Nov 8, 4:34 AM ET, the confirmed facts are an arrest on suspicion of felony stalking at a Brentwood home Friday night, with James in Cleveland at the time. Pending or unreported: the man's identity, any charge, the ownership confirmation from police, the son claim beyond anonymous sourcing, and any response from James.