Police report damning for Georgia AD Damon Evans
The police report from the Georgia State Patrol officer who arrested Damon Evans in Atlanta Wednesday and it’s a damning document for the Georgia athletics director.
According to the report, filed by GSP Officer Mark Cabe, Evans’ black BMW was weaving noticeably on Roswell Road, which initiated Cabe to U-turn his cruiser and execute a stop. After Evans pulled into a parking space at the corner of Roswell Road and Chastain Drive, Cabe reports that he “noticed that the subject had a pair of lady’s red panties between his legs.” Later in the report Evans admits that the panties belonged to his passenger, 28-year-old Courtney Fuhrmann of Atlanta.
“She took them off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home,” Evans said, according to police.
While trying to conduct a field sobriety test on Evans, Cabe reports that Fuhrmann got out of the passenger side of the car several times despite instructions from both the officer and from Evans to remain in the vehicle. After failing to obey a final warning, Fuhrmann was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
“I have a young lady and she is intoxicated and I am just trying to get her home,” Evans reportedly told the officer.
Police report that Evans failed a field sobriety test. “Used his vehicle for balance” and “subject kept his left heel on the ground almost the entire test . . . after instructed (to hold it) approximately 6 inches of the ground,” reads the report.
Evans refused a breathalyzer, then began to plead with the officer.
“I am not trying to bribe you but I am the athletic director of the University of Georgia,” the officer reports.
“The subject admitted again that he’d been drinking and started crying,” McCabe writes. Evans asked the officer to take him to a motel.
“I am not going to bribe you but is there anything you can do without arresting me?,” Evans asked, according to police.
When off-loading Fuhrmann at the jail, the officer asked her how long she had been seeing Evans. “Only a week ago,” she replied, according to police.
Fuhrmann also stated: “I promise you one thing: He will get off. . . . It will be erased because he is the Athletic Director of UGA and he has that power.”
Upon dropping off Evans at the jail, “the subject began crying uncontrollably,” the police report says.
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Freehawk
July 3rd, 2010
7:49 am
The report reflects good policing. It appears Evans is used to talking his way out of situations. Ironically though, when you say “I am not trying to bribe you but” that makes it worse. Not even Ed “The Wolf” Tolley will get him out of this.
Wonder if USC fans will wave red panties on national TV?
Freehawk
July 3rd, 2010
7:49 am
Islanddog, vodka is odorless, but not after you metabolize it.
kdawg7
July 3rd, 2010
7:57 am
all the bruthas just got to get wit da white girls dont day.
Islandawg
July 3rd, 2010
8:09 am
Freehawk, I didn’t know that but thanks for the info, I stand corrected.
Paul Has A Small Johnson
July 3rd, 2010
8:10 am
Can we just find someone who can make sure we beat FL on a consistent basis
superDawg
July 3rd, 2010
8:31 am
I say put him on probation and make him pick up the red drawers on the no. campus saturday evenings.
brokebackvol
July 3rd, 2010
8:33 am
Every day he isn’t fired, the black eye for UGAG gets worse. Is there an SEC school that wouldn’t fire the AD over this? I’d say Vandy but they don’t have an AD anymore do they? I wonder if Hamilton was driving with the red panties and a buzz when he hired Lame Kitten? LOL
Damon Evans
July 3rd, 2010
8:40 am
I love me some white hoes wearing red UGA drawers. Just seeing that black “G” on that ho’s panties got me all pumped up…..no pun intended.
4 ncs are better than 1
July 3rd, 2010
8:58 am
As a PROUD GT fan, I only have one thing to say…..AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Has A Small Johnson
July 3rd, 2010
9:04 am
4 ncs are better than 1
Get your facts straight we have 5 if you count the way your counting yours, look it up dork!!!!
Big Al
July 3rd, 2010
9:06 am
“Later in the report Evans admits that the panties belonged to his passenger, 28-year-old Courtney Fuhrmann of Atlanta. She took them off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home,” Evans said, according to police.”
That statement alone says Evans had drunk to much to think straight. It makes absolutely no sense at all. Unless her panties weighed a couple of hundred pounds and were so heavy she could no longer wear them.
4 ncs are better than one
July 3rd, 2010
9:20 am
Paul, You don’t know what you’re talking about! I’ve checked personally and his Johnson is plenty big!
D'ville Dawg
July 3rd, 2010
9:24 am
Damon Evans To Do List: Drunk(check), Breaking the Law(check), DUI Arrest(check), Playing the “Do you know who I am?” card(check), Cheating on wife(check), crying like a little girl(check) – good job, Damon – I think you checked all the boxes!!!
Junior Samples
July 3rd, 2010
9:26 am
what’s the big deal with the bloomers? I take mine off all the time to air out when i’m coming back from da club on my tractor
thom
July 3rd, 2010
9:29 am
PAGING VINCE DOOLEY! http://www.wedgeorgia.com
WOODY HERMAN
July 3rd, 2010
9:30 am
Why all the surprise ? it is Georgia University, or whatever. Not a very good school at all so who cares.
If you dispute that here is one of your gratuates that your thought so much of to place him in a high Admin position
4 ncs are better than one
July 3rd, 2010
9:31 am
Just wait for Paul Johnson to be caught in drag at Swinging Richards. Hey! That has already happened. I think his stage name is Triple T. The Tech Tranny.
hwookwd on fonics
July 3rd, 2010
9:40 am
WOODY, What school did you “gratuate” from?
bornloser
July 3rd, 2010
9:43 am
NI**ER PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
---I-;
July 3rd, 2010
9:43 am
WOODY HERMAN,
You are a complete imbecile with your incorrect grammar and spelling, dumbsheet!
GoDOGS1
July 3rd, 2010
9:52 am
Hey WOODY! Can you even spell GED? Fricking idiot!
Bama Dawg
July 3rd, 2010
9:54 am
All I can say is DAMN!! Better him than me. To be honest, the one that has to endure the most embarassment is his wife. Imagine how her friends and family will be laughing at HER. It makes me wonder: what did that slut have that his wife didn’t? The only thing that needs to be done now is the settlement of his compensation package. It would be wise of him to spend this weekend packing. How can someone with an opportunity like this be so stupid?
dawgfan
July 3rd, 2010
10:02 am
Chances are that a good portion of the judgmental stone throwers have driven impaired a time or two themselves. You know who you are. LOL @ you.
Anyway, Evans has to be fired and fired quickly. The longer he stays on the more damage it will do to UGA. I don’t know what the hold up is. As UGA AD you are a public figure. Its not like being AD at a Tech where nobody on God’s green earth gives a rat’s azz who you are. Damon is holding the same position that Vince freaking Dooley once held. This cannot drag on any longer. Pull the plug and let everyone, including Evans, move on.
Thanks.
joe
July 3rd, 2010
10:03 am
If Evans is smart, he will launch a new line of red panties with UGA across the front…and on the back “Dawggonnit.” He could sell those right before and after games on campus and make a fortune…I predict a sea of red panties in the stands during games this year.
Berzerk8dawg
July 3rd, 2010
10:05 am
sorry Damon you have got to go.
You can’t be driving drunk around Atlanta with a Hooker with her Panties on your lap and Trying to Bribe a Cop on a weeknight while wife and kids are home and Start Crying to cop because you couldn’t bribe him and expect to keep your job. Disgraceful to the Program and yourself be a man, own up to your mistake and get out fix your relationship.
Christian LeMayBee
July 3rd, 2010
10:09 am
i was just doing what my new AD taught me – go for the red britches!
4ncs is not as good as 5
July 3rd, 2010
10:10 am
If those panties had been yellow, blue, orange, or any other color, this would not have happened. It’s Evans job as AD to sniff out all “red” panties. That’s what “friends” are for!
DawgFan24
July 3rd, 2010
10:11 am
Someone needs to teach this guy how to properly lay down a bribe. Actions speak louder than words Damon! Flash the cash next time! And you call yourself a pimp….it was nice knowing you. Sorry about the tough lesson learned.
Reality Check
July 3rd, 2010
10:12 am
Panties in my Lap (Pants on the Ground)
Panties in my lap
Panties in my lap
Lookin’ like a fool
with your panties in my lap
with the gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways
Panties hit the ground
Call yourself a taxi
With your panties in my lap
Drivin in Buckhead with your panties in my lap!
Giddy-up
Hey! Get your panties off my lap!
Lookin like a fool!
Talkin’ with the law , with your panties in my lap!
Hey! Get your panties off my lap!
Lookin’ like a fool
With your panties on my lap
With the gold in your mouth
Hat turned sideways
Call yourself unemployed
With your Panties in my lap!
DawgFan24
July 3rd, 2010
10:17 am
Joe,
GREAT IDEA! If you were smart, you would have kept that idea for yourself. How about we partner up and go into business? We can even put Evans’ mug shot on the front of the panties!
Evans’ contract calls for firing for felony or crime of moral turpitude (w/contract)
July 3rd, 2010
10:19 am
http://www.redandblack.com/2010/07/03/evans-contract-calls-for-firing-for-felony-or-crime-of-moral-turpitude-wcontract/
4ncs is not as good as 5
July 3rd, 2010
10:47 am
Reality check – Too Funny!
Curious
July 3rd, 2010
10:50 am
In such cases as Evans’, does the authority of the Board of Regents supercede that of Adams’, and, ultimately, does the sitting Governor posess the authority to supercede a decision by the Regents? I am asking, ” Does the Governor have the ultimate authority to fire Evans, should it come to that?”
Elin
July 3rd, 2010
10:51 am
Someone please tell Kerri to give me a call. I have an extra 9 iron that will give new meaning to the ” she was just a friend”.
William Jefferson C.
July 3rd, 2010
10:55 am
There is absolutely nothing wrong with Damon’s actions, unless he used more than his cigar.
big o
July 3rd, 2010
10:55 am
Enter your comments here
big o
July 3rd, 2010
10:59 am
reality check that’s very funny !!!! i’m lmao I like Evans but some …ish you can’t come back from.
He has lost his cred he has to go. Brother in BMW with snowbunnie late night Dude !!!!
DAWGFAN
July 3rd, 2010
11:24 am
A fish(Dog) rots from the head……….I smell a rot fish(Dog)
It breaks my heart
mike
July 3rd, 2010
11:27 am
We obviously know now what caused him to weave besides the alcohol. Was he using both hands to help her with the panties?
DAWGFAN
July 3rd, 2010
11:31 am
Let me try this again
A fish(University) rots from the head…………….I smell a rotting fish (University)
It all bout the dollar
It BREAKS my heart
GT for life
July 3rd, 2010
11:52 am
just like always,uga will suspend him for the 1st game of the season like they have been doing for years when a player gets arrested (lost count) and the beat goes on and on -this is the norm in athens
roughrider
July 3rd, 2010
12:21 pm
I can see why the trooper arrested Evans for DUI but don’t understand why he felt compelled to mention the panties in his report. Just another example of unwarranted government into someone’s personal life.
Bride of Chucky Knapp
July 3rd, 2010
12:24 pm
Can’t wait to see the GSP dashboard video of the incident.
Big Al Sharpton
July 3rd, 2010
12:26 pm
I hate it but he has to be fired, couldn’t he find a Black Girlfriend!!!!!!!! Them white women will get you in trouble.
All Vol
July 3rd, 2010
12:38 pm
How stupid can you be. So sorry for his wife and kids. What is Adams waiting for? Just a terrible story black eye for Georgia….one caused by one man. Be a man and act now Adams. Big Vol fan here….but I really feel for the Ga program.
Mars
July 3rd, 2010
12:46 pm
A few points;
a) As a former long-time bartender, I have always been baffled by the myth that vodka is odorless. I know the smell of vodka, metabolized or not. It is a neutral smell, but a smell nonetheless.
b)The one calling himself “please”; my gay friends, whom I love dearly, are perfectly understanding of the fact that I am uncomfortable with the idea of showering with them.
c)As big a black eye as the Jan Kemp thing was, it is the only controversy I recall before the multitude of embarrassing incidents that have occurred since Mr. Adams unpacked his bags. I’d like to go back to the level of embarrassment that Jan Kemp brought us. We’ve moved on to a completely new level of stoogery. How sad is that?
d)This is about race. Never before has anyone in Mr. Evans position, any similar position in a higher learning institution, been given this much latitude without immediate dismissal.
Anyone else see a pattern?
July 3rd, 2010
12:55 pm
Here’s Georgia’s finish in the Directors’ Cup since 1997
2010 20th
2009 18th
2008 10th
2007 12th
2006 9th
2005 7th
2004 5th
2003 15th
2002 8th
2001 3rd
2000 12th
1999 2nd
1998 7th
1997 28th
Hayseed Dixie
July 3rd, 2010
1:11 pm
“He will get off because he IS the AD for UGA, and he HAS that power”
Just typical of the arrogance and hubris of the pups.
You guys will not only NEVER win a NC, you will NEVER escape your image as thugs and the reality is that you are a mediocre program.
longdog
July 3rd, 2010
1:13 pm
COP: damon who’s red panties are those? DAMON: mine COP: when did you start wearing red panties? Damon: when my wife found them in my car
Brookhaven Bulldawg
July 3rd, 2010
1:15 pm
Mr. Evans should do the right thing and step down. Our program has enough problems with our players.
Roll Tide – Are you trying to tell me there isn’t an alcohol problem in Tuscaloosa? Are you also saying that the T-Town police hasn’t been run by the U of A since the days of the Bear. Don’t act like Alabama is any better than things up in Athens. Unbelievable dude.