Rod Moskowitz, 52, the CEO of PROSPORT Management in the Charlotte area, was arrested in Huntersville, North Carolina, on Thursday, Oct. 22, and charged with assault with a deadly weapon on a government official, according to Mecklenburg County court records reported by Queen City News and WBTV. The firm’s website lists NASCAR drivers Denny Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson and Bubba Wallace among its clients, WSOC reported.
The NASCAR agent charged here has not been quoted in any report I found, and none gave a court date. A charge is an accusation, and Backfire News has not seen the warrant itself, so the details below come from the outlets that quoted it.
What the arrest warrant describes
Officers were at a home on Cramur Drive for a civil disturbance when one of them saw a Toyota Sequoia being driven in what the affidavit calls an “aggressive and reckless manner,” WBTV reported. The SUV went into a ditch, backed out and pulled into the home’s driveway, Queen City News reported from the warrant. WBTV, citing the affidavit, put the time just after noon and called the vehicle a 2023 Sequoia; WSOC described it as orange.
The officer and others tried to get the driver to stop. The warrant says the officer had to step out of the vehicle’s path three times to avoid being hit, and WSOC added that he waved his hands and struck the car with his hand. Officers got Moskowitz out of the vehicle and arrested him. He was booked into the Mecklenburg County Jail that night, and on Friday, Oct. 23, he was given a $1,000 secured bond, which means money or a bonding company’s guarantee had to go up before release. None of the three reports describes a collision or an injury.
WSOC said it asked PROSPORT for comment and that Huntersville police did not return a message. Queen City News also reached out to the firm. Neither outlet reported a reply.
How a Toyota SUV becomes a deadly weapon in North Carolina
The reports do not say what weapon the warrant names, but every fact in them is about the Sequoia. The charge as described matches G.S. 14-34.2, which makes an assault with a deadly weapon on a state or local officer “in the performance of an official duty” a Class E felony. The statute never mentions vehicles. Courts decide case by case, and the answer turns on how the vehicle was moving…