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'Miracle on Ice' Member Mark Pavelich Allegedly Attacks Neighbor, Faces Charges

Mark Pavelich, a member of the 1980 United States Olympic hockey team, is facing four felony charges stemming from an Aug. 15 arrest.

Per Paul Walsh of the Star Tribune, Pavelich was charged with second- and third-degree assault, possession of an illegal shotgun and possessing a gun with a missing serial number. He was arrested for allegedly hitting his neighbor with a "three- to four-foot-long metal pole" after they returned from a fishing trip.

Pavelich's neighbor, James T. Miller, was hospitalized with two cracked ribs, a bruised kidney, fractured vertebrae and bruises on his arms and legs.