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Pacman is facing felony obstruction charge from 2006 incident in Georgia
By Terry McCormick,
March 01, 2007
Adam “Pacman” Jones, already embroiled in controversy, faces an unresolved felony charge of obstructing a Georgia police officer stemming from an incident in early 2006, The City Paper has learned.
The Tennessee Titans cornerback, already under the microscope for an incident more than a week ago at a Las Vegas strip club, faces three charges in Fayetteville, Ga., from a February 2006 incident, according to Fayetteville City Police reports obtained by The City Paper.
Jones, 23, was charged with one felony count of obstruction of an officer sometime after 1 a.m. on Feb. 6, 2006, according to reports filed by officers from the Fayetteville City Police. He was also charged with two counts of misdemeanor obstruction after an alleged altercation between Jones and officer Greg Gross.
The reports say officers were patrolling the Argonne Forest area of Fayetteville, about 30 miles south of Atlanta, where a number of thefts recently had been reported, when they noticed a vehicle parked in the roadway for a few minutes.
Officers say they approached the vehicle and found Jones, Lewis Kuffuor and a female passenger, who was pregnant at the time, inside the car. They say they also found marijuana in the possession of Kuffuor and a half-burned marijuana cigarette in the back seat ashtray of the vehicle. The female passenger was not arrested or charged.
Officer Gross approached the vehicle and states on the police report, “I approached the vehicle to see what was going on and made contact with the occupants. The offender listed [Jones] did commit the offense of obstruction when he did willfully hinder this officer while in the lawful discharge of official duties.”
The police report says when officers went to make an arrest, Jones resisted being handcuffed and became unruly, attempting to fight with police. Four officers were at the scene.
Kuffuor, who was charged with marijuana possession in Nashville in a 2005 incident where Jones was present at the team hotel, at was also charged with obstruction of an officer and with possession of marijuana.
The case against Jones regarding the obstruction charges is scheduled as part of the March court docket in Fayette County Superior Court. The case can be called any time after March 19.
Jones was actually charged in two separate incidents in little more than a two-month span in that area, but one of the charges was not prosecuted.
In the other incident, according to Capt. Mike Pruitt, head of the Fayette County Drug Task Force, Jones was also arrested —
along with his mother, Deborah Jones — and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession in an April 14, 2006, incident in Fayette County. However, that charge was dismissed and declared non-prosecuted by the solicitor general, according to the Fayette Daily News.
The Georgia arrests mean Jones has been involved in or near the scene of a police investigation 10 times since being drafted by the Titans in April 2005 — and five times that he has been charged since being selected.
One of Jones’ attorneys, Worrick Robinson, had no comment on the incidents, while efforts to reach Jones’ Atlanta-based attorney Manny Arora were unsuccessful.
Jones currently is linked to a Feb. 19, 2007, incident in a Las Vegas strip club where the club co-owner accuses him of initiating a melee that escalated into a triple shooting. That investigation is continuing.
In the April 14, 2006, incident, the Fayette County Drug Task Force obtained a warrant to search Jones’ house, according to officers. Once inside, officers say they found marijuana and arrested the cornerback, according to reports.
Police say they also found marijuana in the bedroom of his mother.
According to DTF’s Pruitt, Jones had arrived from Nashville about 15 minutes or so after officers had entered the home with the warrant. Pruitt said the Titans’ cornerback arrived in a Chevrolet Corvette, and when he got out of the vehicle, the car noticeably smelled of marijuana smoke.
“I asked him why his ’Vette smelled like marijuana,” said Pruett, “and he said he’s been smoking it on his way down here.”
The marijuana charge, however, was not prosecuted by Fayette County solicitor general Jamie Inagawa in Fayette County State Court. A solicitor general handles the prosecution of misdemeanor cases in Georgia courts.
Efforts to reach Inagawa were unsuccessful on Wednesday.
Pruett indicated that most times his department is notified if the solicitor general’s office doesn’t plan to pursue prosecution in a case. Pruett expressed surprise that the charge had not been pursued by the solicitor general and promised to inquire as to why such a charge was dismissed.
Titans coach Jeff Fisher could not be reached for comment.
I know Fisher is just flustered by now.
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