Fast & Furious: Georgia Football Staffer Jarvis Jones 14th to Confront Careless Driving Charge
Georgia Football Staffer Jarvis Jones 14th to Confront Careless Driving Charge
University of Georgia football coaching staff part Jarvis Jones was captured on careless driving and speeding charges late Friday, the Atlanta-Journal Structure reports.
Jones, the team’s player association facilitator, is the 14th part of the program to confront a careless driving or speeding charge since the crash that murdered hostile lineman Devin Willock and selecting staffer Chandler LeCroy on Jan. 15.
Police say that LeCroy and protective lineman Jalen Carter were hustling partitioned vehicles with speeds surpassing 100 mph within the minutes some time recently the early-morning crash that took put after Georgia’s celebration of its national championship.
Willock was a traveler within the car that LeCroy was driving.
The Journal-Constitution reports that Jones’ charge comes with a assignment of speeding/maximum limits, demonstrating that he’s denounced of driving more than 20 miles per hour over the speed restrain.
He was booked at the Athens-Clarke Province Imprison at 11:26 p.m. Friday night and discharged on $2,400 bond an hour later.
Jones, 33, played linebacker for two seasons at Georgia from 2011-12 some time recently a four-season NFL career with the Pittsburgh Steeler.
He joined the Georgia program after his NFL retirement in 2016. He’s the as it were part of the coaching staff among the 14 who have confronted driving-related charges since January.
Cautious lineman Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins, linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson and wide collector De’Nylon Morrissette were among the others to confront capture for driving offenses.
Head coach Kirby Keen denied in Walk that the program had a culture issue related to careless driving.
“Absolutely not. I would say we’re distant from it,” Keen told ESPN on Walk 3. “After you conversation to individuals exterior our program that come into it, they conversation around what a extraordinary culture we do have — and we do an incredible job.
He has since recognized that the program does have a problem which it has taken measures to address it.
“I’ll be the primary to confess we haven’t illuminated that issue or problem,” Savvy said amid a July news conference.
“I don’t truly know that anyone has. But certainly for us, it’s critical to recognize it to begin with. We’ve had a parcel of mediation in terms of talking and going to, and teach measures have been actualized in terms of instruction. We’ll proceed to do that.”
As of early Monday evening, not one or the other Jones nor the program had freely tended to Jones’ capture. Jones remained on the sideline for Georgia’s season-starting win over Tennessee-Martin Saturday.
