Mizzou QB Blaine Dalton suspended

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Missouri quarterback Blaine Dalton has been indefinitely suspended from the team after being arrested Thursday night. Dalton says he did nothing wrong. According to the police report, Dalton, a freshman from Blue Springs, was arrested after Columbia police allegedly found 10 pills of hydrocodone, a prescription painkiller, and alcohol in the car during a traffic stop. Dalton, 18, was arrested around 11 p.m. on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance. The police report also listed several misdemeanors, including a minor in possession of alcohol, failure to drive on the right side of the road, no proof of insurance and possession of false identification, according to Lt. Scott Young of the Columbia Police Dept. According to the Boone County Prosecutor's Office, the case is being reviewed and charges have not yet been filed against Dalton, a highly recruited quarterback who is expected to contend for the starting job this fall. Reached on his cell phone Friday, Dalton immediately responded. "I didn't do anything wrong," he said. "I look for everything I've been charged with to be dropped. I had a bottle of pills. They were my friend's, and he left them in my car. I wasn't taking the pills or anything like that." Dalton also said there was alcohol in the car. "There was an unopened beer in the car, but we weren't drinking," Dalton said. "A single beer. There was one."

I didn't do anything wrong! :lol:

 
Before we judge anyone, it might be best to hear all sides of a story, then get the truth. It could very well be that his friend left them there. I had a buddy do the same in my car in HS. Had I been pulled over and a cop found them in the passenger side door, I would have gone to jail. Who knows....

By BILL ALTHAUS, bill.althaus@examiner.net
“I wasn’t intoxicated, and I wasn’t selling pills,” Dalton, the former Jaguars quarterback who had enrolled at the University of Missouri early to battle for the job as Mizzou's starting quarterback, told The Examiner Saturday.

Dalton was arrested around 11 p.m. Thursday by Columbia police near the intersection of Providence Road and Burnam Avenue.

Dalton said he was handcuffed and placed in the officer’s car when they found a bottle containing 10 pills of Hydrocodone, a prescription pain killer, and an unopened can of beer.

“They looked in my car and found an unopened beer in the glove compartment,” Dalton said. “It was warm. I don’t know how long it had been in there. It wasn’t cold and it wasn’t open, and I wasn’t drunk or anything like that.”

Dalton said a police officer then brought the prescription bottle to Dalton and asked him, “Who’s Wilson?”

Wilson is Dalton’s former Blue Springs South teammate Zach Wilson, an offensive lineman who started three years with the Jaguars and then went to Northwest Missouri State University on a football scholarship before giving up the sport last season.

Wilson’s name was on the prescription bottle. The pills were prescribed by a doctor after Wilson had shoulder surgery last September.

 

Wilson said he left them in Dalton’s car after visiting his friend before a Missouri spring scrimmage.

“They’re mine,” Wilson said late Saturday night. “I don’t remember the exact date I went to MU to see Blaine, but I had on some shorts with no pockets and I threw the pills in his glove compartment.

“When he called me and told me what happened, I couldn’t believe it. People are asking why I left the pills there and didn’t need them. I had shoulder surgery last September, and the pills I left in his car weren’t strong enough.

“I got a stronger dose. I didn’t even remember they were in his glove compartment until Blaine called me after it all came down.”

The Columbia Tribune reported Dalton was arrested on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance, minor in possession of alcohol, possession of false identification and three traffic charges, including a lane violation and failure to provide insurance.

“As far as I know, he was cooperative with officers,” Columbia police Lt. Scott Young said of Dalton to the Tribune.
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GP has had a rule, as well as the rest of the athletic department, that a player remains suspended if charged with a felony until the issue is resolved.

So that all depends on what goes down with this case and the facts given. So there is a good chance that unless the DA drops the drug charge given the info from Wilson, that he will still be off the team at the start of the season.

He was in a fight for 3rd string with another true freshman Glaser. Gabbert will be the starter and walk-on turned scholly Costello the backup

 
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