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Police: Knife found in basketball player's dorm room
Humphrey faces felony weapon charge, suspended from the team
LAWRENCE CONNEFF
Issue date: 11/14/07 Section: Sports
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Starting shooting guard Billy Humphrey, 20, a junior from Dacula, was charged Tuesday with felony possession of a weapon on school property after a search of his East Campus Village dorm room revealed a "butterfly knife."
He has been suspended from the team indefinitely.
Other published reports stated that marijuana was found in Humphrey's room, but University police Lt. Lisa Boone said that was not the case. Humphrey was released at noon Wednesday after posting a $5,000 bond
According to the police report, University police met with Kathryn Hall, a student affairs specialist with the University, at 10:12 a.m. Tuesday after she called in about a possible violation of the Georgia Controlled Substance Act. Hall said a custodian found a substance that looked like marijuana while searching discarded property left behind in a study lounge in Building 1514.
In response, a search warrant was issued for Humphrey's dorm room for possible violation of VGCSA. While serving the warrant, police discovered Matthew Christopher Hall inside the dorm room. A check of his license showed a warrant was issued for his arrest in Stone Mountain for failure to appear. He was searched, placed under arrest and taken to the Clarke jail. He was also given a barring notice for all University housing for one year. Hall is not a University student, but his Facebook profile shows him to be an Atlanta resident attending Florida State University.
No drugs were found in the dorm room.
At 12:45 p.m., after recovering the knife Tuesday, University police also barred Lawrence Asutaku from all University housing for one year for suspicion of VGCSA. Asutaku is not a University student, but his Facebook site shows him to be a resident of Atlanta. Mercer, Asutaku, Humphrey and Matthew Hall are all Facebook friends.
At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, a warrant was signed against Humphrey, and at 6:20, the warrant was served on Humphrey at the University police department. He was booked into the jail at 7:35 p.m.
"Billy was arrested for felony possession of a weapon for having a pocket knife on campus," head coach Dennis Felton said. "I guess it was bigger than two inches, which was the limit, so he's gone to turn himself in. And that's it. That's all I know."
Felton said at practice Tuesday he was not sure how the arrest would affect Humphrey's status for tonight's game against Grambling State.
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CaveMan
posted 11/14/07 @ 8:44 AM EST
1. Does anyone even make a knife with a blade less than 2 inches long???
2. Is everyone at the dining hall going to be charged with a felony for using a butter knife?
3. (Continued…)
Daniel
posted 11/14/07 @ 10:27 AM EST
Is Dennnis Felton trying to throw away his job and this program? I know that Takais Brown was kicked off the team for violating team rules, but obviously it was something that did not have to be reported, so it should have been handled internally. (Continued…)
jeff elrod
posted 11/14/07 @ 11:22 AM EST
i have to agree with CaveMan, pending the circumstances under which the knife was discovered. i do know, though, that if the entire male university population got pocket-checked, the number of reports for these kinds of "incidents" would spike dramatically. (Continued…)
CoastalDawg
posted 11/14/07 @ 12:37 PM EST
So how was the "weapon" discovered and under what circumstances? Did he threaten someone, did a room mate or team member see it when he emptied his pockets? In years past almost EVERY young man carried a pocket knife, not as a weapon but to be used for everything from whittling, to picking one's teeth - yes I DID say picking one's teeth. (Continued…)
MC
posted 11/14/07 @ 12:40 PM EST
But almost all pocket knives have blades less than 2 inches long. (Even relatively big pocket knives. Measure one and see.) It does seem strange, though, that this fellow is charged with a felony without any other indication of what got him in trouble or why they *looked* for the knife. (Continued…)
Cajie
posted 11/14/07 @ 12:55 PM EST
I won't call you the n-word if you don't call me the r-word.
We have all these laws laws and more laws and they as we speak are making more laws to make criminals out of everybody, because this ensures social engineering diversity!
The black power (blackkkk) is out to change the justice system one way or another, Instead of cleaning up their act, recent news reported committees in Washington claim our justice system is unfair to blacks and they are working now in Washington to change sentencing guidelines and set them free. (Continued…)
WRM
posted 11/14/07 @ 7:57 PM EST
Georgia has gone way overboard with their weapons laws. This is outrageous. Do you realize that possession of any type of knife (pating knife, butcher knife, steak knife, pocket knife, carving knife with a blade of more than 2 inches) are not allowed in any dorms(part of the school campus). (Continued…)
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