The mother of Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice will not face charges months after being accused of package theft.
In October, Marsha Kearney was accused of stealing two limited edition Chappell Roan records from her neighbor in Texas. The woman claimed at the time that she caught Kearney with a Ring camera grabbing the items.
The neighbor had tried unsuccessfully to resolve the issue with Kearney herself before calling police, she said.
This is evident from court documents obtained by TMZ On Monday (Dec. 16), the NFL player’s mother, Kearney, had her case dismissed after she agreed to complete a theft intervention program, perform 24 hours of community service and pay $125 in restitution.
TMZ Shortly after the incident, I received the footage from the neighbor, which showed Kearney wearing a “Momma-Rice” sweater, walking past her neighbor’s doorway and looking at the camera before picking up a package and walking down the hallway .
The incident occurred hours after the Chiefs defeated the Chargers in Los Angeles on September 29.
This wasn’t the first time Kearney had been accused of theft. Earlier this year, Kearney was accused of stealing several items from a man, including food, cups, laundry products, merchandise and socks. The case was also dismissed on June 4 after she completed a list of unspecified conditions, a court official said TMZ.
Rice has also been involved in his own legal troubles this year, when he was involved in a multi-vehicle car accident in March. He was charged with one count of aggravated assault, one count of collision causing serious bodily harm and six counts of collision causing injury.
No trial date has currently been set and no plea has been entered.
As for the wide receiver’s football career, the 24-year-old first entered the NFL with the Chiefs after graduating from Southern Methodist University. Despite being a recent addition to the team, Rice was a big part of the Chiefs’ offensive line in the 2023 season, when he caught 79 passes for 938 yards and seven touchdowns.
At the start of the 2024 NFL season, his regular season receptions and yards totals ranked second on the team, behind lone tight end Travis Kelce, and his receiving touchdown total led the team.
However, in week four, when the Chiefs played the Chargers, Rice suffered a knee injury and later had surgery to repair his lateral collateral ligament.
“His surgery wasn’t his ACL, it was the posterolateral corner, there was damage there,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said on Oct. 14. “It’s probably the same result, though, as what you would get in terms of time for an ACL. It’ll take a while for that to come back. He’s going to go to his rehab and get started on that while we go here.”
Rice is not expected to play again for the rest of the season.
Despite Rice’s injury, the Chiefs have managed to lose just one game to the Buffalo Bills all season. The team will play the Houston Texans on December 21 at 1:00 PM ET.
