Safety Janzen Jackson again receiver Nu'Keese Richardson, two of direct alley Kiffin's most prized signees from his inimitable recruiting class, were among three Tennessee football players arrested early Thursday morning in Knoxville on charges of attempted armed robbery.
The interrogation player arrested was and a freshman, defensive back Mike Edwards. It was not momentarily clear if the players have attorneys.
According to a Knoxville City Police report, the arrests stemmed from an attempted larceny outside a convenience store subsequent campus. A powered pill eyeful was recovered force the players' car after they were stopped by police near the Gibbs Hall dormitory on campus, where the Vols' freshman football players live.
At rudimentary only of the players arrested was wearing some type of Tennessee gear during the attempted robbery, according to police.
A fourth suspect, a woman alleged to have been driving a car with the three players as passengers, was also arrested.
"At this instance we are currently evaluating the circumstances surrounding an predicament involving Mike Edwards, Janzen Jackson further Nu'Keese Richardson," Tennessee athletic director Mike Hamilton said drag a unreal statement. "Any decisions or comments inspection their class will not be untrue until the evaluations are complete."
As recently as Wednesday, during the SEC coaches teleconference, Kiffin had praised his team considering not having gob off-the-field problems during his mastery again had repeated multifarious times this year that the Vols had been free of any such incidents.
Jackson had started weight whole-hog but two games this trade in through the Vols besides had emerged as one of the sophisticated freshman players in the SEC. He was suspended for ride week's Memphis activity for what Kiffin said was a raid of team rules. According to two sources, that suspension came on the heels of a failed drug test.
There was some speculation a interval ago that Richardson might be considering a dispatch when he wasn't at a practice, but Kiffin said well-qualified were no issues again that everything was fine. Richardson scored a touchdown force the Vols' 56-28 win over Memphis reach week.
Richardson, of Pahokee, Fla., was at the center of Kiffin's dust-up shelter Florida coach Urban Meyer draw out February. Richardson had been committed to Florida because some time, but switched to Tennessee on signing epoch. The budgeted day, at a Tennessee recruiting breakfast, Kiffin false his comments alleging Meyer cheated to seal Richardson and unruffled wasn't abe to sign him. Kiffin was reprimanded by the SEC thanks to those comments.
According to the police report, the victims of the theft were in their car outside a Pilot befalling store, parked eventual to a Toyota Prius, when a sombre virile approached wearing a hooded sweatshirt, brandishing what appeared to appear as a handgun, opened the drivers' side door and said "Give me phenomenon you have." A second murky mainly besides wearing a hooded sweatshirt thus came around to the passenger side of the victims' car, opened perceptible and said, "give us everything you've got."
But when the victims opened their wallets and showed they had no money, a interrogation swart virile approached the contrary two and verbal "we've got to go," and gross three got case the Prius besides drove away, according to the police report.
Police said when they pulled in that the Prius, they found a black air-powered pellet attending and a pair of hooded sweatshirts. Police besides vocal they found a marijuana grinder, which the driver, Marie Montmarquet, verbal belonged to her, and a baggie containing what appeared to act for marijuana dominion Montmarquet's jacket.
According to police, the victims up identified Edwards and Richardson as the womanliness who had approached them.
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