Former boxing champ Mike Tyson could be making another comeback – in prison.
Tyson, who did a three-year stint for the 1991 rape of a beauty queen in Indiana, faces up to 7½ years behind bars after Arizona authorities charged him yesterday with drug possession.
Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas said Tyson has “run out of second chances – at least in my book.”
Tyson’s latest legal troubles stem from his Dec. 29 arrest in Scottsdale, where he was pulled over by cops who found two bags of cocaine in his pocket and another in a package of cigarettes, police said.
In an interview with cops, the Brooklyn-born heavyweight allegedly admitted to abusing drugs. When a cop told Tyson, 40, that he did not appear to be messed up, the boxer said, “I know man, but I am f- – – ed up,” according to documents posted yesterday on the Web site TheSmokingGun.com.
Tyson followed the statement by “laughing loudly,” the report said.
Tyson was charged with two felonies for drug possession and two misdemeanor counts of driving under the influence of drugs.
He must submit to drug and alcohol testing and is prohibited from drinking or taking nonprescription drugs while the case is pending.
Tyson was released without bond after a court appearance last Friday. If convicted of all four charges, he could be sentenced to between 21/4 and 7½ years.