UPDATED: Weapons Charged Dropped Against Former UGA Football Player Isaiah Crowell
The running back had been arrested at a safety checkpoint in Athens, Ga.
Updated - April 26, 2013: The weapons charge against Crowell has been dropped, the Athens Banner-Herald reports. Original article: One of the University of Georgia’s star football players was booked in the Clarke County Jail on felony weaspons charges. UGA running back Isaiah Crowell was arrested at 2:20am at an ACC Police checkpoint at East Campus Road and Green Street, on the UGA campus in Athens, according to ACC Police Department spokesperson Hilda Sorrow. She said that police officers stopped the 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis for a safety check, "for seat belts." Crowell was driving the car, which is registered in his name. Officers smelled an odor of marijuana, asked Crowell and his passengers to get out. A search of the vehicle turned …
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Rebecca McCarthy
7:52 am on Sunday, July 1, 2012
Yes, and Crowell was suspended for one game last year (perhaps more) for testing positive for drugs. In this case, he may not have been smoking himself....he had other people in the car. There was no marijuana in the car when the police searched it. more ›