REPORTS COME OUT THAT AARON HERNANDEZ WAS A HEAVY PCP ABUSER IN NEW ROLLING STONES ARTICLE

AARON HERNANDEZ

Former New England Patriots tight end and accused murderer Aaron Hernandez was a heavy user of the hallucinogenic drug PCP and became so paranoid he carried a gun wherever he went, according to a report in the new issue of Rolling Stone.
"Aaron’s out of his mind,” a friend of the family told the magazine. “He’s been twisted on dust (a slang term for PCP) now for more than a year, which is when all of this crazy s--t started.”

The magazine reports that Hernandez shunned his teammates and instead "surrounded himself with a cohort of gangsters", but by February — four months before the 23-year-old allegedly gunned down a man in Massachusetts — he was trying to cut ties and worried that his associates "were actually trying to kill him," a source told the mag.

The one-time Pro Bowler began carrying a rifle in his gym bag and set up an extensive surveillance system at his mansion, Rolling Stone reported.

The source told the magazine, "He was very paranoid, but was that because of his addictions or because he was trying to leave the gang?”

The magazine also reports that Hernandez' former college coach may have covered up his involvement in a drive-by shooting while the ex-gridder was at the University of Florida.

The story also repeats claims that the college coach, Urban Meyer, may have covered up positive drug tests, something Meyer has denied.

“Hernandez was held to the same drug testing policy as every other player,” Meyer, now the head coach at Ohio State University, texted to the Columbus Dispatch in July.

Hernandez, 23, allegedly shot dead 27-year-old Odin Lloyd, a semi-professional football player from Boston in a North Attleboro, Mass., industrial park in June.

Lloyd was dating the sister of Hernandez’s girlfriend.

Hernandez has pleaded not guilty to murder and weapons charges, and is being held without bail. He could face life in prison if convicted. The fallen football star will be arraigned at Bristol County Court Sept. 6.

Rolling Stone released a preview of the new story, titled "The Gangster in the Huddle," on Tuesday.

It promised to reveal that Hernandez "surrounded himself with a cohort of gangsters," comes from a home in which both his parents and most of his family have criminal records and that the gridder was one slip-up away from being cut by Patriots coach Bill Belechick when he was arrested in Lloyd's murder.

Hernandez signed a new Patriots contract last summer worth $40 million, but was cut from the team within hours of his June 26 arrest.