CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn escaped serious injury on Wednesday morning after being involved in a car accident on his way to the team's stadium.
Horn injured his left thumb and sat out a joint practice with the Cleveland Browns.
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Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn watches during an NFL football dual training camp with the Cleveland Browns Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. Horn was involved in a car accident on his was to camp. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Panthers coach Dave Canales said Horn will be day to day moving forward.
“I’m glad that Jaycee was OK,” Canales said. “He did have to have a few stitches in his left thumb area. So they got that all cleaned up and sutured up. ... It doesn’t seem like anything else happened, but you know we’re just gonna kind of evaluate him each day."
Canales said Horn will not play in Friday night's preseason game against the Browns, but hopes to have him available for the team's second preseason game against Houston on Aug. 16.
“Hopefully we can get him turned around so we can take advantage of an opportunity in Houston for that game, which was kind of the plan all along,” Canales said.
Horn was alone in his car when the incident occurred at an intersection just outside the stadium. The team announced that no one involved in the incident was transported by emergency medical personnel. Horn was later evaluated by team medical personnel.
Horn took in practice from the sideline in street clothes and was seen moving around and joking with teammates.
The Panthers signed Horn to a $100 million contract extension earlier this offseason, which at the time made him the league's highest-paid cornerback. Horn was the eighth overall pick in the 2021 draft by the Panthers out of South Carolina.
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Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn watches during an NFL football dual training camp with the Cleveland Browns Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. Horn was involved in a car accident on his was to camp. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
Carolina Panthers cornerback Jaycee Horn participates during an NFL football training camp, Wednesday, July 30, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces in the Caribbean Sea have seized another sanctioned oil tanker that the Trump administration says has ties to Venezuela, part of a broader U.S. effort to take control of the South American country’s oil.
The U.S. Coast Guard boarded the tanker, named Veronica, early Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrote on social media. The ship had previously passed through Venezuelan waters and was operating in defiance of President Donald Trump’s "established quarantine of sanctioned vessels in the Caribbean,” she said.
U.S. Southern Command said Marines and sailors launched from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford to take part in the operation alongside a Coast Guard tactical team, which Noem said conducted the boarding as in previous raids. The military said the ship was seized “without incident.”
Several U.S. government social media accounts posted brief videos that appeared to show various parts of the ship’s capture. Black-and-white footage showed at least four helicopters approaching the ship before hovering over the deck while armed troops dropped down by rope. At least nine people could be seen on the deck of the ship.
The Veronica is the sixth sanctioned tanker seized by U.S. forces as part of the effort by Trump’s administration to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela’s oil products and the fourth since the U.S. ouster of Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid almost two weeks ago.
The Veronica last transmitted its location on Jan. 3 as being at anchor off the coast of Aruba, just north of Venezuela’s main oil terminal. According to the data it transmitted at the time, it was partially filled with crude.
The ship is currently listed as flying the flag of Guyana and is considered part of the shadow fleet that moves cargoes of oil in violation of U.S. sanctions.
According to its registration data, the ship also has been known as the Gallileo, owned and managed by a company in Russia. In addition, a tanker with the same registration number previously sailed under the name Pegas and was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department for moving cargoes of illicit Russian oil.
As with prior posts about such raids, Noem and the military framed the seizure as part of an effort to enforce the law. Noem argued that the multiple captures show that “there is no outrunning or escaping American justice.”
Speaking to reporters at the White House later Thursday, Noem declined to say how many sanctioned oil tankers the U.S. is tracking or whether the government is keeping tabs on freighters beyond the Caribbean Sea.
“I can’t speak to the specifics of the operation, although we are watching the entire shadow fleet and how they’re moving,” she told reporters.
However, other officials in Trump's Republican administration have made clear that they see the actions as a way to generate cash as they seek to rebuild Venezuela’s battered oil industry and restore its economy.
Trump met with executives from oil companies last week to discuss his goal of investing $100 billion in Venezuela to repair and upgrade its oil production and distribution. His administration has said it expects to sell at least 30 million to 50 million barrels of sanctioned Venezuelan oil.
This story has been corrected to show the Veronica is the fourth, not the third, tanker seized by U.S. forces since Maduro’s capture and the ship also has been known as the Gallileo, not the Galileo.
Associated Press writer Ben Finley contributed to this report.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks with reporters at the White House, Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a press conference, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks at a news conference at Harry Reid International Airport, Nov. 22, 2025, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Ronda Churchill, File)
