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| Position: | Safety | ||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||
| Born: | (1971-09-04)September 4, 1971 (age 53) Inverness, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||
| Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||
| Weight: | 214 lb (97 kg) | ||||||||
| Career information | |||||||||
| High school: | Citrus (Inverness) | ||||||||
| College: | Florida | ||||||||
| Undrafted: | 1994 | ||||||||
| Expansion draft: | 1995: 20th round, 39th pick | ||||||||
| Career history | |||||||||
| * Offseason and/or practice squad member only | |||||||||
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Monty Roy Grow (born September 4, 1971) is an American former professionalfootball player who was adefensive back for two seasons in theNational Football League (NFL). He was born inInverness, Florida, and attendedCitrus High School in Inverness. He playedcollege football for coachSteve Spurrier'sFlorida Gators while attending theUniversity of Florida from 1990 to 1993. He was signed by the NFL'sKansas City Chiefs in 1994, and also played for theJacksonville Jaguars from 1995 to 1996.[2]
In 2013, Grow was arrested for child abuse, after leaving his 3-year-old child locked in a car, without any adult supervision.[3]In 2016, Grow was arrested for being a leader in a massive healthcare-fraud conspiracy, and in 2018 was found guilty of 17 counts of health care fraud and money laundering.[4] He was sentenced to 22 years in prison in connection with the healthcare-fraud conviction and ordered to pay approximately $18 million in restitution.[5]
On October 21, 2020, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit found that the evidence was sufficient to support Grow’s convictions, and that the district court’s instructions to the jury were not coercive or prejudicial, and that Grow invited any error that the district court may have committed. The Eleventh Circuit, however, vacated the sentence on Count I of the indictment and remanded the case for further proceedings.[6]