Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Crowder, Herring to miss opener
Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida has suspended linebacker Channing Crowder and safety Jarvis Herring for the season opener after both were arrested for scuffling with police outside a local nightclub earlier this summer, the school said Tuesday.

The Gators open the 2004 season at home against Middle Tennessee on Sept. 4.

Crowder, the SEC Freshman Defensive Player of the Year, was charged with disorderly conduct after he got into a loud argument outside The Palace nightclub, a Gainesville police report said. Herring was charged with resisting or obstructing without violence.

Police said Crowder got into two arguments during the incident and later led police on a foot chase when the linebacker followed one of the men he was arguing with. One officer fell during the chase and
Crowder later refused to put his hands behind his back when police tried to handcuff him, the report said.

Crowder had been arrested outside the same bar last year for allegedly beating a man unconscious.

According to the report, Herring "repeatedly interfered" with the officers as they tried to arrest Crowder. He also refused officers' commands to leave the area.

Crowder led all freshmen nationally with 9.6 tackles per game. Herring played in 11 games last season, making 24 tackles.

The Gators open fall practice Aug. 9. :D


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Wow 2 arrests and he is only going to miss one game.
Gee and you wonder why people are sick of th BCS schools :rolleyes:

More good news for the Blue Raiders???

Wednesday, July 21, 2004
Third Gator run-in with law this week
Associated Press

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- Florida linebacker Taurean Charles remained in jail Wednesday, a day after he was arrested at an off-campus party and charged with aggravated battery, a second-degree felony.
Florida athletic director Jeremy Foley immediately suspended the 19-year-old Charles from the team, saying his status would be determined "as we gather more information."
Charles was arrested Tuesday and was being held at Alachua County Jail on $10,000 bond. It was not known if he had a lawyer.
Charles was the third Florida player suspended for an arrest this week.
On Tuesday, linebacker Channing Crowder and safety Jarvis Herring were suspended for the season opener after both were arrested for scuffling with police outside a local nightclub earlier this summer.
A sophomore from Miami, Charles punched a Florida student in the side of the head without provocation at the party June 13, according to a police report. The blow knocked the student, Dane Eagle, off a wooden deck onto the ground, leaving him semiconscious, the report said.
Charles then picked up a partially full keg of beer and tried to throw it on Eagle's head, the report said. A witness partially deflected the keg, but Eagle sustained a concussion, a broken nose that required corrective surgery and multiple stitches to his head, the report said.
"It could have been much more serious," Gainesville Police spokesman Sgt. Keith Kameg said. "... He's lucky someone was there to deflect it in some way. That's why the charge is so severe."
Two Florida offensive linemen -- Anthony Guerrero and Carlton Medder -- are listed as witnesses on the police report.
Gainesville police detective John Nabet said more than a month passed between the incident and Charles' arrest because he was on vacation in June and had to interview a number of people when he began working on the case.
Nabet said sworn complaints for misdemeanor offenses would be filed against two more Florida football players involved in the fight, but he would not identify them because the investigation is unfinished. He said more than 10 players were at the party.
It is the second time in a little more than a year Charles, a backup linebacker and special teams player, was arrested for an off-the-field incident. He pleaded no contest in June 2003 to a simple battery charge in an altercation with a female UF student in her dorm room in March of that year.
He served one year of probation, underwent anger management counseling and was suspended from the season opener for that misdemeanor charge. It was not known if the current charges were in violation of that probation.

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