Article On Ricky Morton's Arrest Warrent and Child Support Problems
Submitted by Daniel Pena on Tuesday, October 25, 2005 at 10:09 PM EST





Here is an article on the legal problems Rock and Roll Express member Ricky Morton is facing concerning child support non-payments. The article is courtesy of the The Kingsport Times online website (timesnews.net), a newspaper that is based out of Kingsport, Tennessee.

Also, it has come to my attention that there is a website called HelpRickyMorton.org to help Ricky pay off large debts. The site also says that Ricky is battling a debilitating disease called Lupus which makes Ricky take several medications. The site says that his condition will get progressively worse if he doesn't receive proper medical treatment. People can donate money via paypal if they want to.

Former wrestling heartthrob arrested on child support warrant

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

By KEVIN CASTLE
Times-News

BRISTOL, Tenn. - A Bristol resident who packed arenas in the 1980s as one-half of the professional wrestling tag team The Rock-N-Roll Express is currently being held in Rutherford County for failure to pay child support.

According to information from law enforcement officials, Rickey Wendell Morton, 49, of 3357 Avoca Road, Bristol, was taken into custody on Oct. 14 by deputies with the Sullivan County Sheriff's Department after a warrant was issued for his arrest.

According to a source close to the situation, Morton had failed to pay child support to his former wife, Constance Lynn Morton, as part of a September 1991 divorce settlement.

The tag-team wrestler was employed by World Championship Wrestling, a company once owned by CNN founder Ted Turner and whose copyrights are now controlled by World Wrestling Entertainment, at the time of the 1991 suit, which lists the couple having three children at the time of the divorce hearing in the Chancery Court of Rutherford County.

The children are currently ages 23, 20 and 17.

The source also stated that Morton reportedly owed his wife nearly $73,000 in back payments for child support.

Once he was taken into custody, he was transported to the Sullivan County Justice Center in Blountville, where he remained in custody until deputies from Murfreesboro could travel to Blountville and pick him up on Oct. 15.

Morton and partner Robert Gibson were a popular tag team in the National Wrestling Alliance and World Championship Wrestling during the 1980s and early 1990s, and had a successful run in the Smoky Mountain Wrestling promotion.

Currently, he had been participating in several independent professional wrestling shows in the Tri-Cities, the Carolinas and other parts of the United States.

Morton remains jailed under bail stipulation terms handed down by the judge in Rutherford County that he pay the child support payments in full.

He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 28.



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