Ohio State Tight End Jake Stoneburner Arrested, Charged With Obstructing Official Business
I just caught this little tidbit on Eleven Warriors. Ohio's TE, Jack Stoneburner was arrested for obstructing offical business, whatever that means.
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/06/02/ohio-state-jake-stoneburner-arrested.html
Assuming Stonbrunner did something of significance, it will be interesting to see how Urby handles the matter.
You were out with your buddies, someone was drunk, the police came to get him for whatever reason, you failed to cooperate or got in the way defending your buddy........
sliding over the hood of a car or something or other
or
something involving tattoos and whatnot
Ohio Law? Is it even real?
Since he's not 322 lbs, he just put a slight scratch on it.
From Eleven Warriors - depending upon if a risk of physical harm has occured, it is a misdemeanor. If a risk of physical harm occurred, it is a fifth degree felony.
2921.31 Obstructing official business.
(A) No person, without privilege to do so and with purpose to prevent, obstruct, or delay the performance by a public official of any authorized act within the public official’s official capacity, shall do any act that hampers or impedes a public official in the performance of the public official’s lawful duties.
(B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of obstructing official business. Except as otherwise provided in this division, obstructing official business is a misdemeanor of the second degree. If a violation of this section creates a risk of physical harm to any person, obstructing official business is a felony of the fifth degree.
That sort of makes it sound like he went into some bureaucrat's office and hid all his pens.
There is no shortage of hilarious things you could do to government officials in Columbus
There was no grey area on the matter. But in Meyers defense, Florida doesn't have much to value in the way of education to begin with.
He jumped his car off a dirt ramp, which obstructed a police officer somehow.
It actually sounds sort of cool when phrased that way...
As for "obstructing official business", I am guessing that you can't get into too much trouble overall unless you tell the officer that "my people will get you" on top of everything else. I don't see Stoneburner spending a lot of time in Meyer's doghouse.
Maybe he's obstructing the investigation of more NCAA violations.
Didn't OSU get the Ohio Legislature to make $500 handshakes with OSU football players legal?
It's basically a charge that allows the cop to arrest you if you piss them off at all.
On a college campus the most common scenario is that you had a drunk buddy that the cops were arresting and you persistently insisted that you be allowed to drive him home versus spending a night in the drunk tank.
Or... he tried to wrestle a gun away from a cop? More likely something similar to the first scenario.
EDIT: So it seems like Jake Stoneburner, Jack Mewhort and a third were caught urinating on a building and when the cops shined a flashlight at them they bolted.
Updated now also involving starting O-LINEMAN Jack Mewhort
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/06/02/ohio-state-jake-stoneburner-jack-mewhort-arrests.html
"Two of them were captured while they were crouched in between vehicles in a parking area."
Wow is that a hilariously beautiful image.
Hmmmm
At least there weren't any coolers nearby!
They were trying to put out all those burning OSU offers.
Yeah, the only reason this is getting so much publicity is because Mr. police chief broke his thumb trying to run down some D-I athletes.
http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/06/03/shawnee-hills-jake-stone…
Urban Meyer making his presence known.
what a great name.
yet.
Move along.
As I was reading the story, I thought, "so what? I pee all over campus all the time". And then I remembered Jack Mewhort is a solid 8 times as large as I am.
In Ohio, Obstructing Official Business is the charge you receive for running from the police. If someone is urinating in public, or being a drunk ass while their buddy is being arrested, that is disorderly conduct. Persisting in the behavior is persistent disorderly conduct. Maximum sentence for OOB is 90 days in jail and up to a $750.00 fine.
At worst, if they had just stayed there when police arrived, they would have received a ticket for disorderly conduct. Running from police is where they made their situation worse. Not only do I feel that running from the police is a bigger deal, it's stupid. It's a good way to get shot or tazed.
Assuming they have no prior record (which is a large assumption for any O$U student), I bet they enter some type of diversion program and are never convicted of a crime.
According to Stoneburner the cops didn't identify themselves as such, and just shined a light on Stoneburner and Mewhort. I'm giving Jake the benefit of the doubt here; in my one experience with Delaware Cops (I got caught in a speed trap) they were less than impressive.
The names down there Stonebreaker, Stoneburner, all sound like characters from the Flinestones.
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