OSU's DL Tracy Sprinkle Charged with Cocaine Possession
Not to make light of this but if the NCAA caught him I assume a 1 year suspension? Urbz he misses 2 games?
No seriously - hard to see him stay on the team after this sort of charge. He is currently suspended indefinitely.
According to the report obtained by cleveland.com on Sunday, an officer responded to a "large fight in progress" at the lounge. The officer described about 50 people outside the lounge upon arrival, with several groups of them fighting.
Sprinkle was allegedly one of those involved and was arrested at the scene and placed in the back of a police car.
According to the report of a second officer, who placed Sprinkle under arrest, two small bags of cocaine were found stuffed under the back seat after Sprinkle was removed from that vehicle and placed in another car. According to the report, they weighed 0.2 grams each and both tested positive on the scene as cocaine.
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Heh heh..."Sprinkle"...cocaine...
At least he didn't get caught urinating in public.
should trade names
Tracy Sprinkle is the name of my new Death Metal Band
ironically also the name of an up and coming porn starlet....
It's one thing to get in a bar fight and be underage, but when you bring stuff like cocaine into the mix that's bad news. I know we joke around here about OSU having lax enforcement, but I suspect Urban will punish him sufficiently and, hopefully, try to help figure out a way to not be so destructive.
oops. my bad.....
Maybe he was in a hurry when he left the house and instead of grabbing from the powdered sugar jar in his kitchen, he grabbed from the giant cocaine jar next to it. Common mistake.
I can see Urban Meyer orchestrating a 50-person bar fight and planting cocaine in a police car just to avoid telling a kid his scholarship is going to someone else. Cause he's not just a sleazy football coach, he's also a Batman villain.
Me and Tracy down by the scholarship.
I'd be kind of surprised if they can get a conviction on the possession charge. If he's not stupid enough to confess, I'd think his lawyer would have a pretty easy time making a reasonable argument that there's no proof it's his coke. You've just got the cop's word that he would've seen the baggies if a previous detainee had put them there, and I'm not sure that's very convincing.
What? The cops word means kind of a lot.
Unless the drugs are found on the person or their property, you've got an uphill battle. From a prosecutor's perspective, finding them in the back of a police car is less than ideal.
Obviously this shit isn't going to go to trial anyways. There are pretty good reasonable doubt arguments all over it. Especially when we're talking about 0.4 grams of coke split into two different bags. Physically, that's a tiny amount of powder in presumably a tiny baggie. It's very easy to make an argument that a cop missed it when he checked the car before throwing a gigantic football player in the back in the middle of a riot.
The prosecutor and defense attorney will have a conversation. The defense attorney will tell him he has a bullshit case. The prosecutor will disagree. They'll come up with a plea bargain that results in some sort of probation. Then they'll go have a drink together.
back of a squad car looks like the back seat of your grocery getter, or that no one has ever tried the 'ole ditch it in the police car bit before?
When a cop starts their shift, they're supposed to ensure the back seat is clear before signing it out. The back seat is usually checked before placing a prisoner in the back seat just for instances like this. So if this cop did his job right, then coke probably belongs to this kid.
I just don't think that sort of thing is very likely to hold up in court, when all the defense lawyer has to do is create a reasonable doubt.
Where does the reasonable doubt come from after the cop testifies: "This is our procedure. I follow it every time. I followed it this time?"
It comes from the fact that cops have been known to lie on the stand and it only takes one juror to worry about that.
So you're saying there is always reasonable doubt and therefore no one ever gets convicted of anything?
of the car is always part of the report for a case like this. it'll read something like, 'this officer came on duty at 2100 hrs, assigned to unit X. prior to leaving the station i searched unit X and found no contraband of any type. further, this officer had no occasion to detain anyone since the shift beginning and the time that urban meyer's homeboy was put in the back of unit X'
or something close to that.
most places, and assuming this kid's record is clean, he'll get some type of diversion/release/go to some classes and keep your nose clean type of deal and the matter will be kept off his record. most kids take that deal as opposed to the risk of losing at trial which does happen.
cops always check the back seat after a detainee has been back there. it is pretty much standard policy in all police forces.
Weird. I didn't see anyone bring that up until you did.
I don't think Dantonio runs a dirty program at all. In fact I don't remember them having any significant arrests in quite a long time.
Urbs on the other hand...
I guess the Bullough ordeal, while not an arrest, isn't enough to merit a glance.
Also, Dantonio doesn't just get a free pass for Arrest-a-palooza a few years ago.
Wasn't arrest-a-palooza 4 years ago? I'd say that was quite a while ago.
projection.
around here. Thank you for saving us.
Some UM fans? Who mentioned any losses, much less one last fall. Good grief, now you are deflecting. I don't see anyone other than you bringing this up and you have done it repeatedly. Get some help.
I'm sure we will appreciate it in the future.
The thread was tame, so you jumped the gun? ROFL - that sounds a bit like trolling.
Not impressed.
/11 game suspension