WWE Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch has been bailed out of jail following her arrest in relation to a fatal car crash.
Court records show that Sytch was bailed out of jail at 12:14 p.m. Eastern time on Saturday. A $227,500 surety bond was posted by a Volusia County, Florida bail bondsman service.
Sytch was arrested on Friday and is facing nine charges relating to a March 25 car accident where a 75-year-old man was killed. Prior to Sytch being arrested, police suspected Sytch of DUI in the crash and were waiting for toxicology results to come back.
Sytch is facing the following charges:
DUI causing the death of a human or unborn child (second degree felony)
Driving with a suspended or revoked license and causing death or serious injury (third degree felony)
Seven counts of DUI with damage to person or property (first degree misdemeanor)
Last month, the Ormond Beach Police Department issued a press release about the fatal crash:
On March 25th, at approximately 8:28 p.m., a crash involving three southbound vehicles took place on United States Highway 1 (North Yonge Street), just north of State Road 40 (Granada Boulevard). Two of the vehicles were stopped for the traffic signal, with one stopped behind the other. The third vehicle was southbound on United States Highway 1. That vehicle failed to stop and crashed directly into one of the stopped vehicles, causing that vehicle to then crash into the other vehicle in front of it.
The driver of the vehicle who failed to stop was identified as Tamara Lynn Sytch. Ms. Sytch was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center for treatment, and later released after a search warrant was approved and executed to obtain a sample of her blood for investigation of impairment.
The driver of the second vehicle involved was transported to Halifax Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. He has been identified as Julian Lafrancis Lasseter of Daytona Beach Shores, Florida.
The driver and passengers in the third vehicle suffered injuries, but were not transported to the hospital.
Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch has been arrested in relation to a fatal car accident from March.
PWInsider reported this evening that Sytch was arrested tonight in Ormond Beach, Florida on nine charges, including DUI causing the death of a person (DUI manslaughter), driving with a suspended or revoked license causing death or serious injury, and seven counts of DUI causing damage to a person or property. Sytch could face up to 30 years in prison if convicted. Her bond is currently $200,000 for the DUI manslaughter charge and $27,500 for the remaining charges.
An Ormond Beach Police Department report stated that on March 25, Sytch, who does not have a valid driver’s license, crashed into Julian L. Lasseter’s stopped vehicle at “a high rate of speed”, causing his death. Upon impact, Lasseter crashed into a third vehicle. The driver and the passengers of the third vehicle were not hospitalized, but complained of neck, back, side, and head injuries following the collision.
Authorities had not arrested Sytch in the days after the incident as they were awaiting toxicology reports from a blood sample obtained while Sytch was hospitalized.
A civil lawsuit was filed on April 12 against Sytch and the owner of the vehicle Sytch was driving, boyfriend James F. Pente, by the estate of Lasseter. The suit alleges negligence on the part of Sytch and Pente and is seeking ‘in excess of’ $30,000.
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The Ormond Beach Police Department has provided an update on the criminal investigation into Tammy “Sunny” Sytch.
The WWE Hall-of-Famer is suspected of DUI in a fatal car crash that led to the death of 75-year-old Julian L. Lasseter on March 25. According to police reports, Sytch’s vehicle crashed into the back of Lasseter’s while he was stopped at a light. He was taken to hospital where he later died.
While the responding police officers suspected Sytch was inebriated at the time of the collision, they later told media they were awaiting the results of toxicology reports before announcing any potential charges.
The department has since released a statement to PW Insider noting that they have received part of the toxicology report.
“We have received part of the toxicology report. If charges are filed they will not be until the investigation is completed. We will update the press release once a decision is reached.”
Sytch denied culpability over the weekend on social media. While a police report states two witnesses saw Sytch driving at a “high rate of speed,” she contends that she was not going very fast at the time. Sytch also noted that she believes Lasseter died of a heart attack. She also appears to be claiming that she suffered a seizure at the time of the crash.
Hmmmabout 10 since I was slowing down to. Light. But he had a heart. Attack. Nothing to do with my seizure
Lasseter’s family filed a civil suit against Sytch last week. They are also suing Sytch’s boyfriend, James F. Pente, for lending her his car. Sytch does not have a valid driver’s license.
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Tammy ‘Sunny’ Sytch is being sued over a fatal car incident she was involved in last month that led to the death of a 75-year-old man.
PWInsider reports that a civil lawsuit has been filed against Sytch and boyfriend James F. Pente by the estate of Julian L. Lasseter, who was killed on March 25 in Ormond Beach, Florida. The lawsuit is seeking ‘in excess of’ $30,000.
According to PWInsider, the lawsuit alleges negligence by Sytch. In addition, Sytch’s boyfriend Pente is ‘vicariously liable’ for Sytch’s actions by allowing her to use his vehicle. The lawsuit further states that that the Lasseter family has sustained medical and funeral expenses as a result of Sytch’s actions, and Lasseter’s adult daughter “has suffered, and will suffer into the future, the loss of her father’s companionship, instruction, guidance, and mental pain and suffering as a result of her father’s death.”
Neither Sytch or Pente have responded to the lawsuit.
An Ormond Beach Police Department report stated that Sytch, who does not have a valid driver’s license, crashed into Lasseter’s stopped vehicle. Witnessess reported that Sytch’s vehicle was traveling at “a high rate of speed”. Lasseter then crashed into a third vehicle. The driver and the passengers of the third vehicle were not hospitalized but complained of neck, back, side, and head injuries.
Sytch has not been arrested for the incident, as authorities are currently awaiting toxicology reports from a blood sample obtained while Sytch was hospitalized. An online obituary for Lasseter has been published.
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Tuesday News Update
WWE
Matches taped for Main Event this week include Tommaso Ciampa vs. T-Bar and Apollo Crews & Commander Azeez vs. Cedric Alexander and Shelton Benjamin.
Fightful Select reported that Wendy Choo signed an extension with WWE last year. According to the report, the extension was offered before appearing on TV as Mei Ying and was not completed until “much later”.
The company has set May 5 as the date for the Q1 earnings call.
PWInsider reported that those who were part of the Bachelorette party last night on Raw included Miranda Gordy, Lelia Grey, Raychell Rose, and Kayla Sparks.
Rick Boogz on Instagram posted a video of himself walking around on crutches following surgery on his quad.
On Instagram, Ezekiel posted a picture of himself ‘with Elias’.
In their final interview before being split up, Imperium talked to Sean Ross Sapp. Fabian Aichner, who was not called up to the main roster, talked about teaming with Gunther and Marcel Barthel. “Yeah, obviously, like if you can pick a career, then you couldn’t pick it any better. You have my two best friends here that we can travel the world with. We can do what we love and we make each other better every day. We work harder than anybody I believe. It all shows now because hard work always pays off in the end.”
This week’s AEW Road To, which focuses on the three title matches scheduled for Dynamite on Wednesday and the six-man featuring the Jericho Appreciation Society against Eddie Kingston, Santana, and Ortiz.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Minoru Suzuki talked about his upcoming match against Samoa Joe on Dynamite this Wednesday. “Many fans think this matchup is very special, but for me, I have to stay true to myself. I am here to hurt people. The opponent truly does not matter. This week, I will make Samoa Joe suffer. People are brave until they step into the ring with me. Hopefully Samoa Joe is not scared. I don’t know him well, but he will know me by the time we are done. ”
Denise Salcedo talked to Willow Nightingale on her recent AEW and ROH appearances, body positivity, how she became a pro wrestler, and more.
Marq Quen and Nick Comoroto are celebrating birthdays today.
Other Wrestling
According to PWInsider, the person killed in the Tammy Sytch traffic fatality incident on March 25 was Julian Lasseter Jr., 75. Sytch was transported to the hospital following the incident and was released after police obtained a search warrant that allowed them to obtain a sample of Sytch’s blood to be used for testing. PWInsider said that toxicology on the blood sample obtained has not been returned and until it is, authorities are not moving forward in potentially arresting Sytch.
Wrestling Observer Live with Bryan Alvarez and Mike Sempervive is back with the good news and the bad news, including the firing of Nash Carter, Tammy Sytch fatal accident update, a full recap of Dynamite which had some awesome matches on it, and so much more. A packed show as always so check it out~!
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Tammy “Sunny” Sytch is alleged to have caused an automobile accident that led to the death of a 75-year-old man.
According to documents obtained by TMZ, the incident occurred on the evening of March 25 along U.S. Highway 1 in Volusia County. Sytch was driving a 2012 Mercedes and collided with the rear of a 2013 Kia Sorento that was stopped at a stoplight. The driver of the Kia was transported to hospital where he later died.
Following the impact, the Kia Sorento then crashed into the back of a 2011 GMC Yukon, which had also been stopped at the stoplight. The occupants of the Yukon complained of back and neck injuries but were not transported to hospital.
Two witnesses to the crash told police that Sytch was driving at a “high rate of speed.” Police responding to the scene suspected she was operating her vehicle under the influence of alcohol. A blood sample was taken and the results are pending. The toxicology reports could lead to criminal charges being pressed against Sytch.
The 49-year-old has already been arrested twice in 2022 for separate incidents. She was arrested in February for DUI and reckless driving. In January, she was arrested for allegedly having made death threats to a man while wielding a pair of scissors.
Sytch has numerous DUI charges on her record. She was arrested for the offense three times in 2015 and sentenced to 90 days in prison. Further DUI charges stemmed from incidents on January 23 and February 2, 2018, leading to her spending several months in prison. Sytch was arrested for DUI again in October of 2018. She would eventually serve over a year in prison before being released on February 25, 2020. Following her release, she was arrested for eluding a police officer and driving with a suspended licence and was sent back to prison before being released on June 9, 2021.
Tammy “Sunny” Sytch was arrested earlier this week and charged with 11 offenses.
As first reported by WrestlingNews.Co, Sytch’s arrest took place Thursday in Keansburg, New Jersey. According to New Jersey state records, she has been charged with the following:
Operating under influence of liquor or drugs
Driving after driver’s license/registration suspended/revoked
Careless driving: Likely to endanger person or property
Reckless driving
Failure to wear seat equipment — responsibility of driver
Driving without a license
Failure to possess driver’s license
Failure to possess driver’s registration
Failure to possess driver’s insurance card
Failure to install interlock/drive car without interlock
Operate motor vehicle during license suspension — second violation
A court date is listed for March 10.
This is the second time in 2022 the 49-year-old has been arrested. In January, Sytch was charged with making terroristic threats and unlawful possession of a weapon after allegedly threatening a man with a pair of scissors.
Since 2018, Sytch has been charged with violation of a domestic violence restraining order, contempt, eluding police, various DUI offenses, and driving a motor vehicle while under a license suspension.
Sytch was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011. She’s been announced as appearing at this year’s WrestleCon convention in Dallas during WrestleMania week.
WWE Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch allegedly threatened to kill a man with scissors prior to her arrest on Thursday.
TMZ reports that Sytch threatened her partner in a domestic dispute, raising the scissors towards the alleged victim while threatening him. The report states that a police officer witnessed the incident, and that Sytch “appeared to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol” in the officer’s estimation.
Sytch was arrested in New Jersey on Thursday and charged with making a terroristic threat, plus two weapons charges related to the scissors. She is reportedly still in jail following the incident.
Sytch faces up to 11 years in prison if convicted of all three charges related to Thursday’s incident.
In total, Sytch has been behind bars for nearly three years combined since 2018, with that time stemming from various DUI charges, violation of a domestic violence restraining order, contempt, eluding police, and driving a motor vehicle while under a second license suspension.
WWE Hall of Famer Tammy “Sunny” Sytch was arrested today in New Jersey on three charges.
Sytch was arrested this morning in Keansburg, New Jersey on two third-degree weapons charges, plus one fourth-degree charge of making terroristic threats, then taken to the Monmouth County, New Jersey jail.
If convicted on all three counts, Sytch faces the possibility of up to 11 years in prison.
A TMZ report notes that the weapons charges do not appear to be firearm-related.
Sytch has been in and out of prison since serving eight months on DUI charges in 2018, spending a total of nearly three years behind bars since then.
Her most recent prison stay ended in June 2021, when she was released by court order after serving time for operating a motor vehicle during a second license suspension, eluding a police officer, and contempt/violation of a domestic violence restraining order.
Sytch, 49, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2011.
How COVID-19 has affected UFC and WWE this past week when it comes to show changes and decisions is the lead story in the new issue of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
We talk about WWE recovering from its outbreak and UFC losing major fights, as well as the details of the Kamaru Usman vs. Jorge Masvidal fight coming together, the Gilbert Burns positive test and nature of who else tested positive, Burns explanation of his test failure, PPV numbers, more on UFC’s testing and its business deal in Saudi Arabia, WWE & AEW reactions this past week, who still hasn’t returned to television and Ric Flair’s situation being a regular television performer. We also talk about Renee Young and Jon Moxley and WWE rules on masks.
The new issue also covers:
We go through all the details of Fyter Fest and the Great American Bash, positives and the negatives of the ratings, every demo looked at, every quarter hour and match looked at and what it says, Paul Levesque talks the competition, plus match-by-match coverage with star ratings.
WWE schedule over the next two months, certain changes and key reason why and more.
The Rey Mysterio/WWE situation as far as contract, why he was still used while no longer on contract, the deal in place, lots more on the “eye for an eye” stip, plus updating Extreme Rules.
Update the start of wrestling with fans with New Japan, who isn’t there and why, the rules in place for fans plus coverage of the New Japan Cup.
A new documentary about a wrestling icon being worked on, wrestling TV shows listed to Emmy voters and what they say, more on the Saudi Arabia situation, Smackdown’s role on FOX and why it’s valuable, WWE announcement coming, Canadian, U.K. and Sports ratings for the past week, ex-WWE stars sign for major representation, current WWE market value and most-watched shows of the past week on the WWE Network.
Update on Matt Riddle’s situation with a time line.
New Japan’s Lion’s Break show, the concept and the talent.
Why COVID has slowed down a process that all sports leagues were hoping would change regarding ratings and the problem with the new system that goes into place sometime next year.
Ratings of all the major shows, the key demos and quarters for AEW and WWE, what happened head-to-head and what can be learned from them.
Results of all the major pro wrestling events around the world over the past week
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MONDAY NEWS UPDATE
Bryan and I will be back tonight talking Raw, Dominion, Kevin Owens, and a number of other topics. You can send questions to the show to [email protected]
Raw tonight is the go-home show for Extreme Rules with Bayley & Sasha Banks vs. Asuka & Kairi Sane for the tag titles, Kevin Owens vs. Seth Rollins, Randy Orton vs. R-Truth and an elimination match with Viking Raiders vs. Andrade & Angel Garza.
UFC has from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Wednesday night on ESPN and ESPN+. The prelims go head-to-head with AEW and NXT. Dan Ige vs. Calvin Kattar is the main event and the full show is covered in the current issue. Tim Elliott vs. Ryan Benoit and Jimmie Rivera vs. Cody Stamann, Molly McCann vs. Talita Santos, Abdul Razak Alhassan vs. Mournir Lazzez and John Phillips vs. Khamzat Chimaev are the top bouts. The main card starts at 10 p.m. Eastern. It being on ESPN means it will hurt the wrestling shows even more, because last time they ran on a Wednesday it made a big difference, particularly to AEW. But since it’s only the prelims, it could be worse. Last time it went had-to-head it was an ESPN+ show only, which means really the hardcore UFC fans saw it but the casual fans didn’t. There’s also a big NASCAR race on FS1.
With all the COVID issues, there have been a ton of changes. Jared Gordon, who faces Chris Fishgold, and is from the same gym as Gilbert Burns, has had none of his planned cornermen able to join him because they all tested positive. Paul Felder, who at one point wasn’t coming to any of the shows because of being in contact with someone who tested positive, but then tested negative ad came, will be announcing the entire show except the Gordon vs. Fishgold match and was given permission by UFC to not announce the one bout and be in Gordon’s corner.
PWInsider reported Tammy Sytch was arrested again at 4:42 p.m. for operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license, eluding a police officer, and violation/contempt of a domestic violence restraining. She is being held at the Monmouth County Correctional Institution. Sytch was let out on parole in Carbon County, PA for DUI related arrests earlier this year and had been reportedly doing well with a high priced photo subscription service.
WWE
FS1 will air the 2018 Survivor Series PPV tomorrow night which includes Brock Lesnar vs. Bill Goldberg, The Miz vs. Sami Zayn for the IC title, Brian Kendrick vs. Kalisto for the cruiserweight title and a series of elimination matches including Kevin Owens & Chris Jericho & Braun Strowman & Roman Reigns & Seth Rollins vs. A.J. Styles & Dean Ambrose & Randy Orton & Bray Wyatt & Shane McMahon.
AEW
Scheduled for Dark tomorrow:
Brian Cage vs. Brian Pillman Jr. for FTW title
Luchasaurus & Jungle Boy vs. Brandon Cutler & Peter Avalon
Marko Stunt vs. Michael Nakazawa
Brandi Rhodes & Allie vs. Rachel Chanel & Diamante
Ricky Stars vs. Robert Anthony
Dr. Luther & Serpentico vs. Brady Pierce & Pineapple Pete
MISCELLANEOUS
Impact announced that Saturday’s PPV will be broadcasts in both English and Spanish. The Spanish feed is available on Fite TV worldwide with Jorge Milhe and Javier Sahagun, who are Spanish language sportscasters, handling the show. Josh Matthews and Don Callis will be doing the show in English.
Mateusz Gamrot (15-0) defeated Norman Parke via doctor stoppage in round three to win the KSW lightweight title on Saturday night’s show at a studio in Warsaw, Poland. It was the first major MMA show in Europe in months. The bout was stopped due to dangerous cuts near the eye. Parke had missed weight so he couldn’t have won the lightweight title had he won the bout, but Gamrot is their lightweight champion. The co-feature at lightweight saw Borys Mankowski (21-8-12) over Marcin Wrzosek (14-7) via unanimous decision.
ONE will be reopening in Asia for empty arena shows on 7/31, 8/14, 8/21 and 8/28 and regularly from there. The way their economics work, they are likely losing less money not doing live shows with fans.
The El Rey Network at 10 p.m. Saturday will be airing the Santo & Blue Demon vs. Dr. Frankenstein movie and will follow at midnight with Santo & Blue Demon vs Dracula & Wolf Man.
MLW is introducing a new line of face coverings at their shop, with MLW, Contra Unit, L.A. Park and Injustice face coverings.
PWInsider has reported that Luc C. Vu, the man arrested for reckless driving that led to the death of Matt Palacios (Matt Travis) this past December, had his trial moved to 10/19. It was scheduled to begin Monday but the New York court system has been closed down due to COVID.
Tammy Sytch was being held in Monmouth County, New Jersey Jail as of earlier today on a $6,000 bond after a Tuesday arrest.
Sytch was arrested by the Aberdeen, New Jersey, Police Department on two counts of fugitive from justice and six counts of contempt of court.
TMZ reported last night that Sytch had been charged with two DUIs. She had been on probation for three DUIs in 2015.
TMZ reported the first DUI was on January 23rd at 8:53 p.m. She was then involved in an auto accident on February 2nd at 8:52 a.m. and charged with a DUI and leaving the scene of an accident.
She then was charged with failing to appear in court for either of the two arrests, which led to her being taken in on Tuesday. She also had a bench warrant for an arrest in Carbon County, Pennsylvania from this past August due to a probation violation.
