Police/Legal Blotter

[Steve19]

I just read this thread from top to bottom and I gotta tell you it just breaks my heart.

The source of these problems is now very apparent and I feel sorry for poor Andy Geiger. Clearly, he isn't in control at OSU any more.

So, it had to be Tressel all along. Yep, it's a fact, this is Tressel's doing and you all know it.

C'mon you read it in ESPiN the ragazine and saw it on their excellent investigative programming....tOSU is a programme out of control, full of hoodlums and all other sort of criminal who are just brought in to win football games at any cost...And just look at what is happening across the country now...It's time to stop this national pandemic at its source...
STOP CORRUPTION AT OHIO STATE

Please. Before its too late.

[BB73]

Stanley was charged with 'battery, disorderly conduct and resisting or obstructing an officer'. More SI.com photos

[BB73]

Running count on Houston Nutt's 8-year tenure is at the end.

Arkansas' Hicks pleads no contest
WEST FORK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas tight end Jared Hicks pleaded no contest to a charge of public intoxication and was fined $200 before a bench trial in West Fork District Court was scheduled to take place Tuesday night.

Hicks, who is from Bartlesville, Okla., initially pleaded innocent during a court appearance last week. The public intoxication citation won't appear on his record.

Hicks, 21, was booked at Washington County Detention Center on April 18 and released an hour later. Hicks and two others were apparently going for a swim on the White River when they were stopped by an officer and arrested on alcohol-related misdemeanors, police said.
Police said the officer stopped the car in a park after observing it moving erratically; the driver, Steve Sprick of West Fork, was issued a driving-while-intoxicated citation; Hicks and the other passenger were cited on public drunkenness charges.

The university athletic department didn't immediately return a call for comment regarding Hicks' status with the team.

Hicks played 10 games last season, despite dislocating his shoulder in the opener. He caught eight passes for 98 yards and two touchdowns in 2004.

Hicks had off-season surgery for his shoulder injury, but was hurt again during Arkansas' first scrimmage this spring. He was held out of last Saturday's Red and White scrimmage. In his three-year career, Hicks has made 13 catches for 154 yards and has scored two touchdowns.

Hicks' arrest came just more than a month after Arkansas senior defensive end Clarke Moore was arrested and charged with driving under the influence in Farmington on March 12. Both Hicks and Moore are listed fourth on the post-spring depth chart at their positions.

Hicks' brush with the law is the program's 15th alcohol-related arrest in coach Houston Nutt's eight years with Arkansas. Hicks is the 30th player to be arrested during Nutt's tenure.

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[scooter1369]

Originally Posted by Bucky Katt

This guy seems pretty happy for someone who is bleeding profusely from the side of his head.

He's thinking about the fat check he's getting from Glen Mason for removing Stanley from the season.

[ysubuck]

Check the tickets of the Taco Bell owner and the police chief next season. I bet you'll see a significant upgrade . I know, I know, glass houses and all that.

But...

Does anyone remember Coach Tressel talking to the police about his players involvement in their scrapes with the law? I don't know if he did or not, but it was never reported that he did. Kind of smacks of Tom Osborne inserting himself in the legal process back in the Nebraska glory days.

[BB73]

Prosecutors charge UW's Stanley

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin running back Booker Stanley was charged Thursday with four misdemeanors for allegedly hitting two people at an annual street party.

Four officers were needed to subdue Stanley, according to a criminal complaint filed in Dane County Circuit Court.

The team suspended Stanley after his arrest at the party, which drew a crowd estimated at 20,000 and resulted in more than 200 arrests, most for underage drinking or possession of open containers of alcohol.

Stanley, 22, was charged with two counts of battery, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

According to the complaint, Stanley pushed a woman who landed on her stomach. When she got up, he grabbed her nose and told her she was ugly, the complaint said. About 10 minutes later, officers saw Stanley punch a man repeatedly in the face, according to the complaint.

Two Madison police officers said they saw Stanley punching the man while holding him by the throat, the complaint said. Police couldn't immediately subdue Stanley until two University of Wisconsin officers helped handcuff him.

Stanley was released from jail after posting $950 bail.

The senior ran for 350 yards and two touchdowns and caught 18 passes for 146 yards and another score last season.