Tyson Released

Jet, June 14, 1999

Ex-boxing champ Mike Tyson leaves the Montgomery County Correction and Rehabilitation Center in Rockville, MD, after he served three-and-a-half months of his one-year sentence there for assaulting two motorists. The Maryland Parole Commission had earlier granted his parole, but Indiana officials had to approve its decision.

They ruled he had completed his probation for a 1992 rape conviction, and Tyson was released hours after an Indiana judge announced the decision to end his probation, saying he had met good behavior standards. Tyson will be under parole supervision until February and must meet with probation officers for the next two years, said Leonard Sipes, a spokesman for the Maryland Department of Public Safety and correctional Services. He also must meet certain probation conditions--including 200 hours of community service-during the next two years. Sipes added that Tyson will be subject to urine testing at least twice a week and unannounced home visits by state authorities. The former boxing champion must also get permission before he leaves Maryland, complete a psychiatric evaluation and have anger management treatment.