-Caveat Lector- (Some of the people who blow up and start shooting people have recently discontinued antidepressants, including one of the students who recently killed many of his classmates after being withdrawn from Prozac. --SW) Tyson outburst came after being taken off antidepressants, source says Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press By TIM DAHLBERG LAS VEGAS (February 21, 1999 11:09 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Mike Tyson had been taken off an antidepressant drug for two days at the direction of a jail physician when he became enraged and smashed a television set in a Maryland jail, a source close to the fighter told The Associated Press. The incident prompted jail officials to lock Tyson in an isolation cell at the Montgomery County Detention Center, and could lead to anything from a reprimand to further jail time for the former heavyweight champion. A source close to Tyson said jail officials had stopped giving him the antidepressant Zoloft two days before the Friday afternoon incident. The medication was stopped after Tyson refused to let a prison psychologist examine him. Tyson refused on the grounds he had already undergone extensive psychological examinations by doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital in October and was under the continuing care of Dr. Richard Goldberg, who heads the psychiatric program at Georgetown University, the source said. Tyson had been taking Zoloft on a daily basis for the past four months, except for the week prior to his Jan. 16 fight with Francois Botha. Tyson was weaned gradually from the drug during that week, and began taking it again the day after the fight, the source, who asked not to be identified, told the AP. Neither jail officials nor Goldberg could be reached for comment. A call to the home of Tyson's Washington, D.C., attorney, Paul Kemp, was not returned. Tyson was in a common area with other prisoners on Friday and was talking on the phone when a guard came in and hung the phone up, the source said. The action enraged Tyson, who picked up the television set and threw it against some bars. Tyson, the source said, immediately apologized and offered to pay for the TV. Doctors at Massachusetts General testified at Tyson's licensing hearing before the Nevada Athletic Commission in October that the former heavyweight champion was often depressed but that his mood swings could be controlled if he took the proper medication. On the medication, Tyson was cheerful and cooperative in interviews with reporters when training for the Botha fight in Phoenix in December. The week of the fight, though, he was combative at times and engaged in a profanity-laced tirade against a New York television reporter four days before the fight. Tyson was being held in an 8-by-5-foot isolation cell pending a hearing either Monday or Tuesday on a citation for destruction of county property in the jail in the Washington suburb. Tyson, 32, was sentenced Feb. 5 to a one-year jail sentence for assaulting two men after a minor traffic accident in August in Gaithersburg. Tyson pleaded no contest to the charges, but might appeal the sentence. Tyson's advisers had been hoping that he would be put in a prerelease program within 60 days of beginning his sentence that would allow him to stay in a halfway house and leave during the day for training. The incident with the television, though, could harm hopes of an early release. The boxer also is on probation in Indiana for raping a beauty pageant contestant in an Indianapolis hotel room in 1991. He served three years in prison and was released in March 1995. Indiana officials say they will wait to see what happens in Maryland before deciding whether to revoke his probation. Tyson stopped Botha in the fifth round of their fight, his first since losing his boxing license for biting Evander Holyfield during a championship bout in June 1997. Tyson was scheduled to fight April 24 in Las Vegas against an opponent to be determined, but that fight apparently will not take place. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steve Wingate California Director SKYWATCH INTERNATIONAL TODAY'S MP3: "I Wanna Watch the X-Files In The Rain", by DARKANGELES http://mp3.com/music/Rock/3690.html TODAY'S MIDI: http://www.anomalous-images.com/beethove.mid ANOMALOUS IMAGES AND UFO FILES http://www.anomalous-images.com DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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