Former Pittsburgh Penguins forward Billy Tibbetts, a member of the organization in the early 2000s, has been arrested once again.
Per the Times Leader in Wilkes-Barre, Tibbetts, 52, was arrested Tuesday by U.S. Marshals and Plains Township police at a hotel in Luzerne County on a warrant in his native Massachusetts.
Tibbetts was wanted by police in Scituate, Mass., on a warrant issued Feb. 4 that alleged violation of a protective order. The listing of the original offense was harassment.
According to the Times Leader, Tibbetts was arraigned by a district judge in Pittston on the fugitive from justice warrant and then released from the Luzerne County Correctional Facility after posting $25,000 bail. An extradition hearing is scheduled at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas on March 25.
Tibbetts has an extensive history of run-ins with the law.
Most notably, he pleaded guilty in 1994 to raping a 15-year-old girl in Scituate. He was 17 at the time.
After serving 39 months in prison for violating his probation, Tibbetts was paroled in 1999 and by 2000, he signed with the Penguins and split parts of two seasons with the NHL club as well as its American Hockey League affiliate, the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins.
In 2019, Tibbetts was arrested twice in Massachusetts, first for harassing the police chief of Scituate then for drug-related charges.