Ohio State Tight End Jake Stoneburner Arrested, Charged With Obstructing Official Business

Submitted by bluebyyou on

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.

 

 

Victor Hale II

June 2nd, 2012 at 5:42 PM ^

Sounds pretty nebulous to me, almost like a catch-all for minor bullshit. Someone more knowledgable about Ohio law will likely chime in if the papers don't update this soon.

burtcomma

June 2nd, 2012 at 5:44 PM ^

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........

bluebyyou

June 2nd, 2012 at 6:16 PM ^

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.

graybeaver

June 2nd, 2012 at 5:52 PM ^

Urban Meyer allowed felons to play at Florida. Ohio has about half the values as Florida. So basically as long as you're not in jail on game day you'll be allowed to play for Urban.

Perkis-Size Me

June 3rd, 2012 at 7:47 AM ^

As a Michigan fan I'm inclined to agree, but as a former resident of Florida, I'm Inclined to disagree. At least Ohio values it education to a degree. When you played under Urban Meyer at Florida, he made very clear to his players that football was more important than anything that came out of a classroom.



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.

LSAClassOf2000

June 2nd, 2012 at 7:22 PM ^

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. 

Shakey Jake

June 2nd, 2012 at 6:39 PM ^

Didn't OSU get the Ohio Legislature to make $500 handshakes with OSU football players legal?

Scarlatina

June 2nd, 2012 at 8:25 PM ^

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.

ColsBlue

June 2nd, 2012 at 11:16 PM ^

This is nothing. Period. Memorial weekend at the Bogey? Could've been 90% of guys in Dublin. Urban should make them run some stairs and move on.

RationalBuckeye

June 3rd, 2012 at 2:38 AM ^

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.

thesauce2424

June 3rd, 2012 at 8:38 AM ^

But this kind of shit is ridiculous. I think a "hey idiots, knock it off" would have sufficed. I have a few police friends and we get in arguments all the time about the ticky tack stuff they arrest/give tickets for.

NatiWolverine

June 3rd, 2012 at 8:52 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.

Urban Warfare

June 3rd, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^

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.