Ex-Seahawk on state's 'most wanted' list of deadbeat parents
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REBECCA COOK / Associated Press
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SEATTLE (AP) — Former Seattle Seahawks running back Chris Warren is on Washington state's "most wanted" list of deadbeat parents.
Warren owes $103,147 in child support to the mother of his two children, according to the state Division of Child Support.
"I'm not looking to slam Chris," Monique Mulloy, the mother of Warren's children, said Thursday. "But I'm at my wits' end."
Warren is supposed to pay $5,000 a month to support his two daughters, ages 10 and 11. He hasn't paid anything in a year, Mulloy said.
"We're living paycheck to paycheck," she said Thursday. Just as devastating, she said, is that Warren has cut off his relationship with his daughters.
"I'm really disappointed," Mulloy said. "I never thought he would completely walk away from his kids."
Warren isn't the only former professional athlete on the list. The state says Vernon Maxwell, who played for the Seattle SuperSonics in 1999, owes $34,000 to the mother of his 2-year-old child. He owes even more in Florida. Maxwell was arrested last month for failing to pay $160,000 for his teenage son there.
State officials asked Mulloy for permission before posting Warren's information this week on the division's deadbeat parent Web site, which is standard procedure. She provided the photo that shows Warren in his football uniform.
Warren's last known address was in Chantilly, Va., according to the Web site. Attempts by The Associated Press to contact Warren on Thursday were unsuccessful.
Warren, 37, played for the Seahawks from 1990 to 1997. A three-time Pro Bowl selection, he still holds the Seahawks' record for career rushing. His last contract with the Seahawks paid him more than $3 million a year.
In 1998, he signed a three-year contract with the Dallas Cowboys for a reported $2 million. But the Cowboys released him in 2000, citing his lackadaisical attitude.
State officials said Thursday they try to exhaust every option before putting someone on the Web site: sending letters, making phone calls, trying everything to track down the parents and get them to pay.
"This is a measure of last resort," said Adolfo Capestany, a spokesman for the child support division. "An individual has to ignore pretty much all our attempts to contact them."
The Legislature ordered the state Department of Social and Health Services to create the Web site five years ago. The site invites people to send anonymous tips about the deadbeat parents' whereabouts. About 500 men and women have appeared on the list.
Roughly half the cases have been resolved, Capestany said.
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