Athens police: UGA players cleared in taxi incident
Athens-Clarke County police Monday cleared the Georgia football team of involvement in an alleged March 28 attack on a married couple in an Athens taxi.
Police said in a statement that one football player was in the vehicle, “but the investigation revealed that he acted as a peacemaker and tried to calm the situation.”
The suspects in the case “have been identified as residents of Heard County,” police said. Arrest warrants are pending and further information will be released after they are issued, police said.
Police did not identify the player they said acted as peacemaker.
The incident has been under investigation since March 30, when the married couple filed a police report. That report stated that the couple was taking a taxi van home around 2 a.m. when the driver stopped to pick up four males in downtown Athens – “all of whom were UGA football players, according to the [male victim].” He told police that the men cursed and threatened him and his wife and that one of the four “slapped or punched” them in the back of their heads, according to the report.
Georgia’s football team did not practice Monday, and through a spokesman coach Mark Richt declined to comment immediately on the police statement clearing players of involvement. Richt might comment on the matter Tuesday, the spokesman said.
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Brown Sugar
April 5th, 2010
5:25 pm
Dont forget that Montez still sits in jail you blind homers.
Roc
April 5th, 2010
5:27 pm
cuz Montez did a bad bad thang
Stinger
April 5th, 2010
5:28 pm
I knew that this would be swept underneath the rug. You had to be stupid not to realize this. I still say they were guilty and should be kicked off the team.
gtfanfrom1951
April 5th, 2010
5:35 pm
Same old song UGA players in trouble with the law sounds like when CR was at FLa State!!
Sad Richards
April 5th, 2010
5:42 pm
Hey Dawg Stephen…. whats you blid homer excuse for Montez???? I thought so…… nothing
Sad Richards
April 5th, 2010
5:42 pm
*blind*
Dave In Tampa
April 5th, 2010
5:43 pm
Love to see the whining Nerd Herd on here posting. Reminds me of the whining, sorry, sacks of entrail they are. Sucks to be you Techies!
Urban Meyer
April 5th, 2010
5:48 pm
I just need to cry…..waaaaaaaaaa! waaaaaaaaa! waaaaaaaaa! I feel better now.
Reality Check
April 5th, 2010
5:51 pm
Just laughing at the whiny wimps and their unintelligent and baseless cover up accusations. They are eating crow and it kills them! Go cry somewhere else wimps!
Carolina Gator Lover
April 5th, 2010
5:59 pm
i wonder how much the alleged cover-up cost?
William Conrad as Frank Cannon Tonites Episode " Cab Cover Up"
April 5th, 2010
6:05 pm
Something is rotten in Denmark. Seems like Richt, Adams and Evans had to scurry around to clean up the cab fiasco.
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2010
6:06 pm
……lets count how many more tech fans can use the word “joke” today. As in, your vocabulary is a joke.
FalconUGAFan
April 5th, 2010
6:07 pm
Good deal. Glad to hear the UGA player was trying to do the right thing. Can we get back to spring ball now?
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2010
6:10 pm
I only WISH those guys knew how to cover-up something. They have got to be the world’s worst at it.
Another Thug bites the dust
April 5th, 2010
6:12 pm
Montez dont slap upside da head he grabs and slams to da ground…….
oledawg
April 5th, 2010
6:14 pm
I’m with Dawg Stephen at 4:05 posting. Amen, Alt.
Sad Richards
April 5th, 2010
6:19 pm
I would smack dawg stephen upside his head. That blind homer would have kept Willie as our DC.
Georgia players cleared in taxi incident | SportsCentral Arkansas
April 5th, 2010
6:19 pm
[...] in Athens, Ga., is a perfect example of why. On Monday, the Athens-Clarke County Police Department cleared members of the Georgia football team, saying they weren’t involved in an alleged attack on a couple in a taxi cab on March 28. [...]
KingfishStevens
April 5th, 2010
6:25 pm
Since your such loyal fans, why don’t you pool your money and spring Montez Robinson out of jail? I know most of you dog fans make meniman wage, but if enough of you get together, maybe you can be better doggie fans.
Why don’t you all pool your money and spring Montez Robinson out of jail? I bet you think he’s innocent too.
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2010
6:26 pm
Well now we know what it was that Richt “wanted to say about it”, but probably shouldnt. I bet there was a F and a U somewhere in there.
BG
April 5th, 2010
6:27 pm
Well, Well, all you haters can hide back back down in mamas basement!!!!!!!!!
oledawg
April 5th, 2010
6:27 pm
Shall we now count our blessings in that there is a forewarning with this incident and that’s for the Dawgs to keep sqeaky clean on social outings at least until after kickoff for the SC game. We might ask for Kimberly at Bleacher Reports for an article that makes up for linking team behavior directly to Mark Richt and for smearing a little of the Criminols smut on him as well. She sounds surprised that she had some criticism because she states late in the article that she likes Richt, but that was after a leading title and references to Bowdin and FSU about similarities and questioning whether Richt was into discipline or not.
Delusional Dawg
April 5th, 2010
6:30 pm
This whole cover-up is being perpetuated by Urban Meyer. He has paid off the cops himself so that Richt looks good and is around just so he can beat CMR down for an additional 5 years…or longer.
DawgByte
April 5th, 2010
6:32 pm
With Montez Robinson gone that just provides Grantham with one more scholly to recruit the type of player he needs to bring our defense back from the dead.
For any Akbar Tech lurkers out there, may I remind of one simple fact.
2009 = UGA 30 – Georgia Tech 24
HaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaROTFLMFAO
Georgia players cleared in taxi incident | theSPORTSpage Arkansas
April 5th, 2010
6:32 pm
[...] in Athens, Ga., is a perfect example of why. On Monday, the Athens-Clarke County Police Department cleared members of the Georgia football team, saying they weren’t involved in an alleged attack on a couple in a taxi cab on March 28. [...]
oledawg
April 5th, 2010
6:34 pm
So would I have kept Martinez since the outside ilk on here influenced others to trash the man even when stats were presented to show the problem was with the injuries starting in 2008. sad-sack richards take your crud to another blog. I think Urban is callin’ you, boy.
jerry
April 5th, 2010
6:35 pm
How was it determined that the player was a peacemaker?
In the spotlight...
April 5th, 2010
6:38 pm
I didn’t read all of the responses, so if I’m repeating someone, my apologies…guy’s you aren’t like every other college student…you represent the University of Georgia whether you like it or not…you took the money/scholarship, and with this comes a certain maturity that is expected of each and every one of you…Met should have been the standard bearer for bad behavior for this season…do not allow yourselves to be placed in situations, or with people, who could do you, the university, and your football team harm…walk away, leave, get out of there, because they know of you, whether on campus, in town, in the county(ies), or state wide…time to grow up and be smart about what you do and remember who you represent
he's like a Fox
April 5th, 2010
6:41 pm
yeah I know, BUT my boy would never do anything like that…. it was them other boys…. they did it coach… it was them not me, I didn’t say nuttin, I just sat there like the angel I am…. I was on my way home from bible study. please coach ya gots ta believe me. CMR..well we don’t need no more of this sort of thing getting us on the news and perpetuating what the world knows as or collective character. I’ll talk to the sheriff and make a short speech to our masses and it will all be swept under the rug…hehehe their to stupid to figure this out any how. Now go mix me up a crap load of that red coolade dummy I got a statement to deliver.
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2010
6:41 pm
That’s an interesting comment if you follow that link back to Chris Low. How are UGA player “cleared” as if they did something wrong? Since no actual players were named in the first place, shouldn’t the headline read , No UGA players “involved”?
Dawg Gone
April 5th, 2010
6:45 pm
4 untruthful people vs 2 truthful people. The four play for the Bulldogs. Did you really expect the truth to win out in that situation? Hell no. The Thugs win again
Cherokee
April 5th, 2010
6:57 pm
Dawg Gone…. READ the damn story!! They did not play for UGA….You must be a TECHIE.
oledawg
April 5th, 2010
6:59 pm
I blogged yesterday and earlier today on this (AJC) and other sites that the perps could easily be visitors. See Bill King. I was surprised at my own depth of loyalty to the players and the team when proven correct. Most fans on here feel the same way and I’m glad to be associated (however obliquely) with true Dawg Fans. Our Dawg Nation can rest in peace tonight and concentrate energies toward following our coachs and team practice.
Mobile Dawg-where are you? Alt’s on here and it could steam up into retribution later. Dawg Stephen should come back. We all recognize the moniker stealers by their posts. Not to worry, we can discern friend from foe even if they try to perpetrate fraud. By the way, didn’t Ga Gator help you out the other day? Those are the interlopers we like to hear from. SIC’EM DAWGS!!
Cherokee
April 5th, 2010
7:05 pm
Please Cherokee!!! ………..My bad please accept my apologies I should have known better!
Sad Richards
April 5th, 2010
7:06 pm
oledawg you would have kept Ray Goof too Huh? I guess you are content with Urbans beatdowns on the dawgs as wel…..l you tender hearted homer.
Jeckyll Island
April 5th, 2010
7:06 pm
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
30-24!!!
The Dawgs whipped the overrated GA Tech Jackettes on Grant Field inside little Bobby Dodd Stadium to win the state championship of Georgia and the Governors Cup. Meanwhile GA Tech won the third rate football conference called the ACC (similar to Conference USA in quality.)
8 out of 9!!!
8 out of 9!!!
8 out of 9!!!
Mark Richt is undefeated in Bobby Dood Stadium!!!!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
73-66!!!
GA Tech could not win the Georgia state championship in basketball either.
Go Dawgs!!!!
Alaska Dawg
April 5th, 2010
7:07 pm
I am really tired of media hype against the UGA program. This story,as usual, was way overblown. Let’s get back to spring practice and start the run for an SEC title. Tom, you need to get a reality check. I will take Richt and the UGA program over Paul Johnson and the wannabes at GT anyday!
AltamahaDawg
April 5th, 2010
7:14 pm
oledawg, I don’t think it takes blind loyalty to know that story wasn’t going to hold up. IF there had been UGA player involved, the names would have out there long before now.
1eyedJack
April 5th, 2010
7:16 pm
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper – Mark Twain
If you ain’t with us then you’re against us….whale dookey…the lowest thing in the ocean…and you will do whatever you can to bring us down to your level.
Go Dawgs!!
Kramer
April 5th, 2010
7:17 pm
The level of immaturity on these blogs is mind boggling. Regardless of the outcome, the children come on here and see who can “out 3rd grade” each other. This is now a non story as it relates to georgia football. Grow up people. Oh, sorry. nanny nanny boo boo. Is that more clear?
For dawglessville
April 5th, 2010
7:48 pm
dawglessvilee-
For starters Michael Lemon…
Next why don’t you look up who has more players arrested in the last 5 years in the SEC…Here’s a hint it’s not Florida…
FACT: GEORGIA HAS HAD MORE PLAYERS ARRESTED IN THE LAST 5 YEARS THAN ANY OTHER SEC SCHOOL.
jules
April 5th, 2010
7:50 pm
glad that was resolved.
Back to football.
How much did that cost?
April 5th, 2010
8:05 pm
.??
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
April 5th, 2010
8:08 pm
Alamaha Dawg: It had to be “cleared” SINCE UGA PLAYERS HAD ALREADY BEEN TRIED AND CONVICTED BY LOCAL AND NATIONAL MEDIA.
Cherokee
April 5th, 2010
8:13 pm
For dawglessville …99% have been for minor traffic violations. What has Florida’s been for? Oh yea falling asleep at the wheel.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
April 5th, 2010
8:13 pm
Spotlight: How are you to run a background check on every passenger in a public transportation vehicle or should the driver just wait while the background checks are being done?
For dawglessville
April 5th, 2010
8:21 pm
Cherokee stop spewing such BS spin and you may need to learn math.
Brainiac(Dawg for life)
April 5th, 2010
8:25 pm
Stinger: You wouldn’t punch my 93 year old granny. You and CPJ are all hat and no cattle. Get back under your rock you little twerp.
Dawglasville
April 5th, 2010
8:27 pm
Michael Lemon- OK. That is two on Richt’s watch. Hardly qualifies for Thug U but I’ll play. Name a third who did something truely thugish. By the way, since we are playing, what is your school?
Cherokee
April 5th, 2010
8:30 pm
For dawglessville …Have you got facts to back up your BS or are you a typical Florida fan? Also show me where my math is wrong.