UPDATE III: Georgia TB Isaiah Crowell dismissed after weapons arrest
Georgia tailback Isaiah Crowell, who rushed for 850 yards as a freshman last season, was expected to start for the Bulldogs this fall. (AJC photo by Brant Sanderlin)
UPDATED: CROWELL DISMISSED FROM TEAM
ATHENS – Georgia tailback Isaiah Crowell has been dismissed from the team following his arrest early Friday morning on three weapons charges.
Georgia coach Mark Richt made the announcement in short news release sent out by UGA Sports Communications at 5 p.m. on Friday.
“We have a dedicated and committed group of men who are working hard to prepare for the coming season,” Richt said. “Our total focus will be directed toward the team and this effort.”
Crowell, a sophomore from Columbus, was booked at 3:37 a.m. on charges of possessing a concealed weapon, having a weapon in a school zone and having an altered ID mark on that weapon. His bond, originally set at $7,500, was raised to $9,500 late Friday morning. According to booking records, Crowell was released early Friday afternoon.
According to the police report, four other Georgia football players were also in Crowell’s vehicle, including three 2012 freshman signees. Those persons were outside linebacker Josh Harvey-Clemons, wide receiver Blake Tibbs and defensive back Sheldon Dawson. Also present was sophomore defensive back Quintavius Harrow. None of the four were charged.
According to Athens-Clarke police spokesperson Hilda Sorrow, Crowell was arrested at a “vehicle check-point” — or road block — on East Campus Road at Green Street at 2:20 a.m. Friday. Officer Kathryn Thornton reported smelling the odor of marijuana in Crowell’s silver four-door 2005 Mercury Grand Marquis. Crowell gave consent to search the vehicle, himself and four other occupants. No marijuana was discovered but a black 9-mm Luger handgun with an altered serial number was found under the driver’s seat. Crowell was immediately arrested and taken to jail.
According to the police report, Crowell denied knowing the gun was in the car and said people drive the vehicle. He. The owner of the vehicle is listed as Crowell’s mother Debbie. The report also indicted that the five were coming from the nightclub Aftermath, where Crowell said the smell of marijuana originated.
The police report also indicated that Crowell has no criminal history.
Crowell’s mother, Debbie, was clearly distressed when reached by telephone Friday. “I don’t want to talk to a reporter right now,” she said. “”If I want to talk to anybody it’s God.”
Crowell, who came to UGA in 2011 as the No. 1-rated running back prospect in America, was slated to start for the Bulldogs at tailback this season. He rushed for 850 yards and 5 touchdowns as a freshman despite missing playing time due to suspensions and injuries. He was benched for the first quarter of the Vanderbilt game on Oct. 15 as a punishment for an undisclosed disciplinary infraction and he was suspended for the Nov. 5 New Mexico State game, reportedly for failing a drug test.
With Crowell out of the fold, Georgia will turn to redshirt sophomore Ken Malcome and senior Richard Samuel to carry the load early on, along with junior Brandon Harton. The Bulldogs also signed Keith Marshall of Raleigh, N.C. — the top running back prospect in the country, according to 247Sports.com — and four-star prospect Todd Gurley of Tarboro, N.C., to play running back. Marshall enrolled in January.
Marshall and other running backs were offering support for Crowell via Twitter.
“Pray for Isaiah & that he will learn from his mistake,” wrote Marshall from @Truthh4.
Derrick Henry, a highly-touted running back prospect from Florida who once was committed to Georgia, also weighed in via his Twitter account, @KingHenry_2: “Pray for Crowell instead [of] bashing him . . . because everyone wasn’t raised the same. . . . So everyone should just pray he sees a better way”
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Alphare
June 29th, 2012
1:10 pm
is it possible those police officers used to wear jean shorts?
Mike
June 29th, 2012
1:10 pm
Sorry, now translated:
Isaiah Crowell words of wisdom:
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Ill never change on my ni**as and dats on my unborn SON
(I’ll refuse to change and willing to bet my unfertilized son on it)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Lived my life a real ni**a if i died tomorrow!
(I live my life as though I have prostate cancer)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
@Latannica lol get hit n yo damn mouth who u talkin to? Lmao
(I may physically assault you in the face if you are talking to me. I am really laughing hard now)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Put yo hands on a real ni**a and its 1st degree!!!!! Get it?
(If you place your hands on an african american it could be considered a serious crime. Do you understand?)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Free kiyon, savage, vonte, big coot, omar,chuckie, dre, and my big bra calvin!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hold it dwn ..
(Free Ken, Sam, Vance, Ben Cootings, Omar, Chuck, David, and my older brother Calvin. Please maintain your current position in life)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
If u ever cross me, ima get some payback!
(If you ever anger me, I will insure you receive a negative outcome)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Watch yo friends closely, and the folks you dont like!
(Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer)
Finesse King @cashingtfout_12
I know a gangsta when I see one.. #gd
Retweeted by Isaiah Crowell
(I know a negative associatived group member when I see one)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Even tho im headed to the top, Cootie, Bert, and Stevo still my MAIN NI**AS!
(I am still going to the top, but Curt, Bert, and Steve are my main friends)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Den lie bout it like a h**, boy u pose to be a man, u caught, say u was tryna f** and be done with it p***y!
(They lie about it like a worker who receives money for sex, and you act like an upscale gentleman, but I have caught you in a lie, you said you were going to have intercourse with someone and be done with it to a female sex organ)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Dats why ion F** wit none of u clowns!!!!
(That is why I am going to not have intercourse with clowns)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Most b****es lie, some of them don’t! Most ni**as change, my real ni**as won’t! #promiseya
(Most aggressive women lie, but some do not. Most african americans change, but my real african american friends do not)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
You cant buy love, and you can hide hate! #gotti
(You cannot purchase the emotion of love, and you can deceive others that you despise them)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Yeen gotta like me, but u gone respect me when ya see me ni**a!
(You likely are to have a positive opinion of me, and you will respect me once you see me)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Yall say a prayer for a G when i die!
(You all should pray for a gentleman when I am deceased)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
I swear to god IM TRYNA BE A BILLIONAIRE BEFORE I DIE!!
(I place my faith in God and I am trying to make at least a billion dollars before I am deceased)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Since ima rich ni**a, i needa rich b****! Lol #gucci
(Since I am a rich african american, I need an aggressive woman. I laugh out loud)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
This pain i experienced made me colder than Ohio!
(I have experienced pain on the scale of coldness that compares to Ohio)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Get the f** up out my business!
(Please do not interfere with my business)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Lol i got sum child support for ya, get off ya ass girl get ya a job! Tell ya other 3 babydaddys to sell dope and rob..lmao!
(I laugh, I got your court order payment right here, but this is more of a life tip, you should go apply and get a job. Please tell your other children fathers to sell drugs and steal. I laugh my physical backside off)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Through all the pain and struggle i STILL BUBBLE!!
(Through all the pain and struggle I still chew bubblegum)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Ion wanna do nun but finger f**k the CASH! $$$$$$
(I want to do nothing but run my fingers in a sexual way through money)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
A1 since Day1. I been dat way since a lil ni**a!
(Steak sauce since the first registered day, and I have been that way since I was a small child)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Ill turn into a KILLER bout my family!!!
(I am serious about my family enough to commit physical harm)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
ALL my shooters trained to Shoot!
(All my friends have recieved proper gun safety training)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
S**t get personal bout dez dollars!
(My fecal matter is personal about money)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Yall ni**as be out dea trippin on dat bs..im tryna see them racks..Might as well say Jaedyn born rich..i gotta get me sum..$$$$
(All you african americans out there are stuck on bull fecal matter, I am trying to see gun racks.. I may settle to say Jaedyn was born with a large inherience, and I must ask a pay raise)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Stay stressed out when it come to dis bs school junk man i swear.
(I am unnerved when it comes to my school grades and activities)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
She ride wit me, she fly wit me on private jets!
(She rides in my car, or she can fly on a private jet)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
My stacks done got soo big that i can’t rubberband it!!
(I have received so much money that I cannot properly secure it)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
We was in the hood, but now we takin trips!
(I was at my place of residency, but now I have taken a vacation)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
We can do it real big, bigger than u ever done it!
(We can do it big, or bigger)
Isaiah Crowell @iSAIAH_RIP_STEV
Im SELF-MADE..ion NEED nobody!
(I have made my life without any help)
Caleb King
June 29th, 2012
1:11 pm
Can I come back ?
NEGDawg
June 29th, 2012
1:12 pm
Why are people commenting on a story they didn’t read?!?! IT WAS A GUN, IT WAS A LUGER PISTOL UNDER THE FRONT SEAT! I know this, not because I have any inside information, but because I can read! It was not a knife and he did not alter his “I.D.” he altered the serial number on the gun! Anyone who would comment on an article without reading it is ALMOST as stupid as Crowell is!
Troup Co. Dawg
June 29th, 2012
1:12 pm
I wonder if JHC bailed him out since he is A bondsman….I really hate it for Crowell, but if you go back and look at his tweets 2 weeks ago, when the Auburn shootings happened, he describes his own mindset about life! These players are in a bubble being in the college setting, protected, so to speak ! What danger presents itself for a 19 yr old college kid to possess a gun??? Geesee Weesie!
DaLawStinks
June 29th, 2012
1:12 pm
Bad move bro. You should’ve shot your way out of da place. Don’t carry a gun unless you plan on using it!
Herr Wilhelm
June 29th, 2012
1:13 pm
Vun goot ting vill come from hiss dismissal. Der I.Q. of der team vill go up but not much.
j cole
June 29th, 2012
1:13 pm
Look at all the poor Jawga fans out on that ledge on suicide….
..and it isn’t even the second week in September.
Rob
June 29th, 2012
1:13 pm
Mike: You really are not as funny as you seem to think you are. And you have way too much time on your hands, clearly.
sylvia seawright
June 29th, 2012
1:14 pm
He”s nothing but trouble they need to let him go and some of the others players too. UGA needs to clean up their act.
Julie
June 29th, 2012
1:14 pm
Spurrier said it would happen
james
June 29th, 2012
1:16 pm
Wonder what ever happened to that puppy he held while announcing to UGA. He would have made a better addition to Georgia.
rbga7
June 29th, 2012
1:18 pm
Come on Trolls…keep it coming!
Nobody knows what the hell was going on with these guys. It’s Summer, they are in school and trying to have a good time while they can. No alcohol, no dope (at least until the drug test proves otherwise) and nobody getting beat up. What do any of those guys need with a gun??? Could it have been his mother’s, maybe? I don’t think IC or any of these other guys are really that stupid. Let’s let this play out and see what happens and knock off the personal attacks. Geez, why would he want to come back with all of this hate going on.
Robert
June 29th, 2012
1:18 pm
I wonder what it is like to be in the huddle with a felon? I would not want to be in that position.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 29th, 2012
1:18 pm
When you go to DA CLUB you got to be Strapped. You ain’t No MAIN If’n you ain’t Strapped.
jackson
June 29th, 2012
1:18 pm
Might as go ahead and get it over. We have three more open scholarships available.
Funyums Munchies
June 29th, 2012
1:19 pm
It is not illegal to carry a gun. This is the USA.
Dawgpound
June 29th, 2012
1:21 pm
Towers and Carvell sure makes you look stupied. You are the ones telling the public what a great kid he was coming out of high school.
rtr
June 29th, 2012
1:21 pm
C Dawg, you may beat Tech, but you will never beat the Tide….
AntMan
June 29th, 2012
1:21 pm
I pray that at some point our social order stop forcing athletics onto young people, who clearly don’t want to be an athlete, simply because they have “natural talent”. When you really want something bad enough you will do almost anything to reach that goal. When you don’t want something bad enough, no matter how much someone else want it for you, you will do almost anything to destroy that goal.
lightsoutfrom3@aol.com
June 29th, 2012
1:21 pm
Carver cares about winning and nothing else! They are a AA just turned AAA school that recruits football players to the school to win. They had 125 football players at a school that barely has 800 students! Start teaching these kids about life instead of just football! They may be winning on the football field but they will lose out on life!
Browndog
June 29th, 2012
1:22 pm
The car is registered in his mother’s name so what if IC really didn’t know the firearm was in the car? Anyone ever think about that? More concerning is the altered serial number of the gun so more will come relative to where the gun came from originally, ownership, etc.
Troup Co. Dawg
June 29th, 2012
1:24 pm
Time to move on and hope for the best, until UGA gets some real leadership, this ain’t gonna change!!!!!!
lightsoutfrom3@aol.com
June 29th, 2012
1:25 pm
I know Carver alum will be mad but they have to be a little embarassed when kids that are supposed to be reprsenting their school do stupid crap like this! I meant Carver football and not the school as a whole in my last comment! Carver has plenty of students who do take advantage of their educational opportunities.
Jessie Jackson
June 29th, 2012
1:25 pm
Yet another victim being held down by the MAN!
Herr Wilhelm
June 29th, 2012
1:26 pm
Vot ve need at das UGA is der Gestapo. Den ve vill know vhat iss going on.
HPUCK
June 29th, 2012
1:27 pm
How many decent high school players would have given anything to have this idiots scholarship. And don’t give me this crap about , their just teen age boys. They no right from wrong. Start signing real students and doing a psycho evaulation. Stop signing these idiots.
George Castansa
June 29th, 2012
1:27 pm
Was that wrong?
Should he not have done that?
I bet ya he will plead innocent on this one…how was he to know that this kind of behavior is frown upon at UGA?
POTUS
June 29th, 2012
1:28 pm
But at least he gets free health care. Sorry, trying to find a silver lining here for Crowell.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 29th, 2012
1:28 pm
MIKE…………….Thanks for the TRANSLATION…………..Some was funny but most seem to make sense.
DirtyD
June 29th, 2012
1:28 pm
Love how the officer smelled marijuana and yet amazingly no marijuana was found in the car… Such a load of BS…. it’s called I want to search your car so I am making something up in order to get to do what I want to do.
Funyums Munchies
June 29th, 2012
1:29 pm
The “facts” of the case are not known. If anything, I bet the cops set this wholed thing up.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 29th, 2012
1:30 pm
HOW is the #1 PARTY SCHOOL RANKING looking right now?
ColumbDawg
June 29th, 2012
1:30 pm
These stories are becoming all too frequent for us. I think Richt has officially lost control. His arrest record is starting to rival Urban’s at Florida although Urban had championship’s to back his case. It’s time to FIRE RICHT and move on!
And for Derick Henry to bring up how the kid was raised is pathetic and tells a lot about how people think these days. This young generation is soft so they carry guns to appear tough and blame others for their problems. They are the generation that always got participation trophies for sports and played in leagues that didn’t keep score so no one got their feelings hurt. Grow up. Life is tough out their in the real world and there is no excuse for toting illegal guns around while smoking pot. Blaming it on his upbringing is as pathetic as the private school coke head in rehab blaming his parents wealth on his problems. Anyone can choose a life of good or bad despite their upbringing. Happens all the time!
Herr Wilhelm
June 29th, 2012
1:31 pm
Herr Crowell vas not der total idiot. It iss considered vise to alter der serial number on der piece iff it vas to be used in a crime.
fanaticdawgfan
June 29th, 2012
1:32 pm
What a joke ! Well its time to send his dumb 9 mm ASS down the road. How stupid do you have to be to stand there and watch your career, future and money just disappear? Oh nice picture.
UGA $$ alumni and Staff will not react well
June 29th, 2012
1:33 pm
I am 63, retired. UGA’s more mature alumni and influential $$ alumni ( I am not one) will decide what course of action they will take from this episode over the very long haul. This is a serious issue over and over at UGA for years now and many of us are disgusted. Reasons are many but leadership starts with THE TOP DOG.
If young men arrive on campus and are met with a policy that is clear and emanating from a Head Coach that can WIN IT ALL, they will listen. Otherwise, they come to UGA and do what they want to do and knowing in advance that they will get two or three strikes, like Ogletree has and life will be good in Athens, then turn pro and split. This scenario needs to be reversed asap.
Go Dogs.
CLass of 71 & 73
PonGT
June 29th, 2012
1:33 pm
Once is a mistake; twice is a pattern. Cut him loose and let him go to SCarolina or Auburn…. he’ll blend in there better.
TROTTINGHOME
June 29th, 2012
1:34 pm
GOODBYE…IC
Fan of the Game
June 29th, 2012
1:35 pm
Who is surprised? He showed his butt to Coach Richt’s face in the SEC Championship game and should have been kicked off then. You know what we recruited him, so we deserve it.
I dropped my fried twinkie
June 29th, 2012
1:36 pm
DirtyD…………………One of the Dawg players ATE Pot Brownies so you don’t think one of these players could have Swallowed the last of the POT.
vohndaddy
June 29th, 2012
1:36 pm
-3:37 a.m. says a bunch.
-With 3 freshman. What a role model.
-Pistol under seat … fingerprints might not be his friend.
-odor of marijuana … How ’bout Richt saying, “If you see a pack of dogs, you know they’re up to no good”.
-already failed a drug test.
Fire Richt for having a long tradition for not putting the “fear of God” in his players. Is Crowell the player Richt sang Happy Birthday to? Wasn’t that sweet!
SouthGaDawg
June 29th, 2012
1:37 pm
I haven’t read all the posts, but get the theme. Certainly it wasn’t smart, definitely should be making better judgement. But…..this is Georgia, the South. Do you think he is the only adult age person to ever have a hand gun in his vehicle and to ride through a school zone? I would say a few on this post have even done that and never thought twice about it. I have, in fact I’ve have had a handgun in my truck with me for the past 14 years, the difference is I wasn’t a dumba$$ about it and mine is registered in my name and I have a carrying permit. So, let’s not bash too hard about him being out and there being a handgun in his car. Bash away at being stupid and having a gun with altered numbers and not spending 75 bucks to have a Georgia carrying permit. Yeah, he’s been charged with felonies, but look at all the circumstances which started from him just doing something stupid. Let’s not also forget that it is legal to have a handgun in your car, just not the way he did. Change one or two minor things and he drives right on through the check. It’s easy as us as more mature adults far removed from the players to cast stones. Of course to us, we all say he should have been in his room asleep because he was wore out from studying all night. But, how many of us did that on a Thursday night while in college? I’m afraid that this is more of a case of overly eager aggressive cops wanting to make a name for themselves and looking for something and they found it.
RedGADawg
June 29th, 2012
1:38 pm
Like most young adults, they never think they will be caught, This will cost him $ millions, UGA will survive as all programs. This when UGA has toughest policies in SEC. Friend did ask what would police in Tuscaloosa or Baton Rouge do?
Same thing happened to Tennessee’s basketball team two years ago, pot and guns with serial numbers filed off.
They rebounded, all not lost!
Someone tell the uGA students that noithing good happens after midnight!
Hey Richt
June 29th, 2012
1:40 pm
Great recruiting job….
How’s that working out for you?
When was the last time a highly recruited running back out Georgia graduated?
Surely you can find one that has some character and make good grades.
it is what it is AND it ain't what it ain't (no national title for you fools)
June 29th, 2012
1:40 pm
great Friday morning waking up to this and right on target…bwahahahahahahaha..five star dream team my arse…….that uga inbred university hahahha, last year to not have to play bama and lsu and your game plan was to sneak into the top 3 ratings and hope you could fool the nation with your sisters of the poor schedule….NOT….hahahahahahahahahaha, IDIOTS I REPEAT IDIOTS
vohndaddy
June 29th, 2012
1:40 pm
UGA just made another headline on ESPN! Congratulations!
brookhaven dawg
June 29th, 2012
1:40 pm
sounds like there is absolutely no senior leadership on that team. what in the hell were 3 2012 signees out with probably the worst influence on the team?
Dawg in Chapel Hill
June 29th, 2012
1:44 pm
I’m tending to agree with the points made by SouthGaDawg, but also by brookhaven dawg. I do think we need to learn a lot more about the facts here.
BG
June 29th, 2012
1:45 pm
The AJC loves to run negative news about UGA. I hope the AJC goes out of business.