Geno Smith puncher was involved in 2011 Catfish-type incident

At the same time, it’s at least the third time he is documented to have punched someone (along with an off-duty cop and former Jets teammate Geno Smith), which ought to be a concern for the league and perhaps the Bills beyond the prurient details of this particular story. According to ESPN.com, he was involved in a catfishing-type incident in 2011 while at Louisiana Tech, one in which he injured his hand punching a man who he thought was a woman. Enemkpali eventually went to police and reported the incident. When police tracked down the person behind the text messages, it turned out to be a man named Ketryn Anderson.

Come to find out, the man was a pastor in Louisiana that, allegedly, had been hoping to capitalize on Enemkpali’s off-field issue and suspension by extorting money out of him.

Enemkpali entered the house through a side door and saw inside a figure “covered head-to-toe in a blanket”. Missy Lee still would not remove the blanket or turn on the lights.

One of the earlier punches came in a situation where Enemkpali was apparently catfish’d, according to police reports obtained by ESPN’s Outside the Lines. According to the report, a cell phone rang during their interaction and “the screen lit up the room enough to see that the person under the blanket had facial hair”.

Punching Geno Smith in the face is evidently not the weirdest story out there involving IK Enemkpali.

His hand injury, as a result of that September 2011 punch, required surgery, according to “OTL“, which reported that Enemkpali was not charged in connection with the incident.

“Enemkpali stated that after he struck this person, their voice changed to that of a male”, the police report said. “Enemkpali stated that he then left the residence through the window”.

At that point, Enemkpali was feeling that he was possibly in danger, so he threw a punch at the person in the blanket. The “Missy Lee” person accused him of knocking her teeth out and demanded $1,000 or she was going to the police. The texts were followed by phone calls from someone claiming to be the father of “Missy Lee” and demanding payment. But that didn’t end Enemkpali’s problems with his catfisher. He denied hiding under a blanket but did say he refused to turn on the lights.

Anderson refused comment to ESPN unless they paid him. Williams wrote that Anderson’s efforts to get money for his injuries “are at best immoral, and at worst criminal”. The police’s theory was that Anderson/”Missy Lee” was hoping to take advantage of the athlete’s prior run-in with the law.