The details on James Cook’s arrest are… um, arresting.
Georgia sophomore running back James Cook was arrested for having an open container of alcohol early Saturday after police found an unsealed 1.75 liter glass bottle of Hennessy Cognac behind the driver’s seat of the 2017 Dodge Charger he was driving.
A Bulldog offensive lineman was in the passenger seat next to Cook when the vehicle was pulled over at about 12:45 a.m. Saturday, according to an Athens Clarke-County police incident report obtained on Monday.
Police patrolling on East Clayton Street downtown observed the vehicle’s dealer tag, but could not see the expiration date. When the police moved behind the vehicle, Cook’s car switched lanes, alerting the officer that “the driver was attempting to evade me checking the temporary tag,” the report said. The car pulled into a handicapped space and police noticed that the temporary tag number indicated an unknown insurance status.
When police turned on their emergency lights, Cook and the other player exited the vehicle but were told to get back in the car.
Cook told the officer he did not have his driver’s license and he was a Georgia football player.
The officer smelled burned marijuana, the report said. Cook said there wasn’t any more marijuana because he smoked it.
Another unit was sent to the scene. Marijuana “shake” was seen on the center console and Cook admitted to smoking marijuana, according to the report.
The players and vehicle were searched. The offensive lineman—who is not being named by the Banner-Herald because he was not charged—told police he placed a Glock Model 19 pistol in the glove compartment.
Let me see if I’ve got this straight. We’ve got:
- an open bottle of cognac
- a dealer tag w/o proof of insurance
- parking in a handicapped space
- invalid driver’s license
- marijuana smell/admission of marijuana use
- pistol in the glove compartment
All that, and the only charges Cook was arrested for were misdemeanor charges of having an open container of alcohol in a vehicle and driving while unlicensed. The unnamed offensive lineman got off scot-free.
Jimmy Williamson would have sought the death penalty. If that ain’t proof of a new sheriff in town, I don’t know what is.
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I’ll never for the life of me understand the need for teenagers in college to drive around and smoke weed. It’s not like you’re hiding it from your parents. Just get some damn gummies bro!
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Gummies are really, really hard to get your hands on unless you’re in a state where recreational marijuana is legal. Flower is much easier.
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What is flower, prey tell?
I think the liquor might be allowed in an Uber, but they might balk at putting a Glock in the glove box.
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I don’t understand the need for teenagers to drive around with a pistol in the glove compartment.
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For real…he shoulda had it somewhere with easier access.
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lol
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And also loaded with a high capacity magazine. Glocks almost never jam.
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Keep them away from kids.
Grandparents down in GVL lost a 2 year old grandson when he pulled a Glock out of his grandmom’s purse and blew his head off. They bought it for the light trigger pressure. Only turned her back for a minute.
Owner of several guns, took all the safety courses.
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What a nightmare. Because someone’s afraid of a Boogeyman an innocent dies.
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It is a nightmare. But it is a fact that people get attacked. And guns are useful in self defense. It’s no less tragic than a child drowning in a pool or even a bathtub.
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Mr Self Defense expert.
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I stand corrected. Attacks DON’T happen and guns AREN’T useful in self defense. Good points.
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I trust Police officers to keep cool and make split second decisions correctly in a crisis situation. They train for it over and over and over. I don’t trust civilian good guy with a gun to do the same. Facts, reason, logic, statistics back me up on this (please call my bluff). Good guy with a gun will most likely shit the bed. If you’re a good guy with a gun, you should think twice before using it in crisis situation, you are opening yourself up to potential criminal and civil liability.
Furthermore, if you’re a good guy with a gun and decide to use your concealed weapon in public in an active shooter situation or other crisis, how is anybody to know you are good guy? Someone with advanced self-defense training might decide you’re a bad guy, exercise their legal right to stand their ground and now you’re a victim.
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Did you get that picture from Daily Stormer?
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You know Bluto don’t allow DS memes around here.
BTW, the logical fallacy you’re employing is ad hominem.
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Point taken, but a swimming pool isn’t a moat to defend the house. I’m sure back in the day when moats were a thing it was pretty tragic when the peasants drowned in it, but what are ya gonna do? You gotta have one and you cant just drain the thing whenever the peasants are about, can you?
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The point was, a swimming pool serves a function (recreation) while simultaneously being dangerous and having the potential to kill a child. Similarly, bathtubs are useful and also dangerous. Statistically, both are much more dangerous to children than guns.
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You didn’t think my peasant example was funny?
I truly get your point. I love to shoot and am fortunate to have a place where I can do it often. But this happened to me:
I had a vacation home in Pasco County Florida. (There are not so nice areas and people in Pasco.) Because I was afraid of someone breaking in I took one of my pistols there and left it in the nightstand drawer, locked (or so I thought).
I let my sister use the house. She called in the middle of the afternoon screaming at me. I had left the drawer unlocked. He son was three, had wandered off to the bedroom and had pulled open the drawer where the gun was and was holding it when she found him. I had forgotten to tell her there was a gun in the nightstand. The gun did not go off and no one was hurt but that was the last time I ever loaded a firearm that wasn’t attached to or fixing to be attached to my person.
Everybody can see my pool. Everyone knows it’s there.
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Take every precaution you can. Here’s a suggestion.
Load blanks for your first two rounds. That way, if a kid should (shouldn’t ever happen..but) get his hands on it and fires it, it will likely scare him so badly he’ll drop it and run. It will also alert everyone nearby.
Even if you need the gun for self defense, why not use a loud blank round before you actually fire a bullet? A lot of attacks would end with that. (If you’ve ever been forward of a fired gun barrel, you know it’s pretty bad).
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I was shot with birdshot on a dove field once. Hurt like hell but I was far enough away that there wasn’t any real damage. Most of it hit my ass ’cause I saw the guy swinging on me and ducked behind a hay bale. But my hiney didn’t quite make it to cover ….
Ugly, the pistol I’m talking about was a revolver in a holster with the hammer strapped down on an empty chamber. It was highly unlikely that he could have fired it anyway. However, an older child could have. I’m not fearful enough in my day to day existence to take that chance again.
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How about not living your life so afraid of the world that you have to be strapped.
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I have an accessible 10 lb fire extinguisher in my truck and a 25 lb fire extinguisher in my house. I don’t have them on hand because I’m afraid of the world. I’m up at 2 am as a result of hearing yipping ‘yotes. Guarantgotdamteed there are no blanks included in the 27 rounds in this 30 round magazine in my rifle nor any in my carry pistol. The only thing I’m scared of is not being prepared in an emergency.
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Are tubs or pools designed to kill or injure people? I missed the analogy.
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Remember all those kids that died because someone brought a tub to school and drowned them in it?
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Sure, more kids die from tubs, pools, cars, fires, and just about everything else. But we don’t care about data. We’re scared of scary looking guns.
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Dude, I’m not even anti-gun. Your analogy just doesn’t make sense.
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Didnt Norma Cowins get arrested and kicked off the team for that?
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It is now legal to have a gun in a car. And Cowins was also selling cocaine.
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Holy shit
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Ridin Dirty….Beam me down to the U…
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Would not be surprised to see the Lord lead them to seek playing time elsewhere.
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Cook maybe but the Manball Machine runs on a steady diet of big offensive linemen. With Pittman gone and Dell still in place to recruit running backs, something tells me that if the Kirby Hammer comes down it will mirror the official police report.
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Wouldn’t break my heart. We don’t need this kind of shit.
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Praise Kirby. PRAISE HIM!!!!!
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Boys will be boys.
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Unfortunately, it’s kind of the modern day version.
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Go big or go home, I always say.
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Ground Hog Day … It’s like I know the arrest details before they happen. There must be a law against supervision of, or curfews for, college athletes.
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In the CMR era, parking in a handicap space would have gotten you kicked off the team
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Talk about Yellow Journalism:
It’s not against the law to have a pistol (who cares if someone personally likes Glocks or not) in the glove compartment of a motor vehicle, even in Athens, GA. Also, ACC PD now only issues a citation for carrying small amounts (recreational use) of weed.
Cook was charged with what he was charged with, don’t really see why the other stuff gets aired out unless there’s a desire to tear the kid down for no goddamn good reason.
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And obviously the car was legal and had insurance. Maybe the car changed lanes because they did not want to be i from t of the police car. Sounds like he was pulled over because he was driving while black.
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Driving while black. Well he was breaking several laws as the senator noted
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Would a white person have been pulled over for the paper tag which obviously was legal no citation there. Two misdemeanors he was not cited for dui so no alcohol in his system. The bottle was behind his seat. I don’t know about you but that is out of reach for me when I drive and his license was expired not suspended. If this had been a white male he probably would not have been pulled over to find the two things. That by definition is driving while black. I am white and support the law but this stop seems very suspect.
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That’s a pretty stupid assumption, and it seems the police were using damn good judgement. You don’t have a clue how an officer of the law feels at 1 AM and pulls a car over. Obeying laws is a bitch ain’t it? But they apply to all, regardless of color…deal with it. Sit in your home and whine about something you know nothing about. Bitch when the law officer is wrong in judgement; also bitch when they knock it out of the park. Jeez.
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Bluto’s right on that the Athens cops are showing restraint unimaginable under Jimmy Williamson. But a stop after midnight is to find drugs or DUI. The dealer tag was just a pretext.
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Well, let’s get guns and weed for errbody on the team
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Facts, they are stubborn.
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Coach Freeze, holding on line 2, wants to hear about that dealers car special ya got there.
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Well, at least they didn’t emerge from an alley.
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With all that detail in the report, we still don’t know if he knew his own middle name?
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Good news, y’all. The Sugar Bowl doesn’t really matter.
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In a world of pay for play, what would be the appropriate fine be here?
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Hell I know I’d be getting fucked up too if I knew I wasn’t gonna get to play much.
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Hell, I get fucked up just watching our QB!
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Just kids having fun.
Suspend him for the first series of the Sugar Bowl and he will have learned his lesson.
I mean who hear wasn’t rolling with a handle of HenDawg and a blunt in a car given to them probably illegally by a booster with a gat in the glove box.
Leave these kids alone.
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Sounds like the making of a fun night
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Coaches at UGA stated Cook would be suspended as soon as they figured out which player he was and what he looked like. When pressed for additional information, James Coley stated “it’s super unfortunate but to be honest I completely forgot he was on the team. We’ve looked everywhere between the hash marks and behind and underneath the linemen but rest assured once we find Cook, this young man will have to answer for his actions, believe you me”.
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Bwahahaha!
Perfect!
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Thank God
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Well I take back what I said the other day. Should have known there would be more to this. Smh
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Hennessey, Glock, weed and a new car but no DL and….”I’m a Georgia football player.” If all this came out after such minimal charges then I expect someone will start digging into this. I’ve done dumb shit in my life but never at one time in the last place you want to be doing it in.
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Man ball!
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Only think missing from the list is red panties…
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Its a given he won’t play in the SB. The kid made a mistake, wish him well, I doubt he’ll be dismissed from the team yet I think we’ve seen the last of JCIII in the red and black.
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“a” mistake? 😀
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Gentlemen, What we have here is a failure to communicate.
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Whoever the off field analyst is responsible for not baby sitting him…is going to pay h3!! to King Kirbo.
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Great News for parents thinking their kids wanna ball at UGA.
#1) age of said person who can have a open carry permit.
#2) What age can you purchase booze legally. (21) ?
#3) Explain a dealer tag on a car with insurance driven by a UGA football player with no drivers license. ( CKS needs to explain this is nota press conference WE need to get better……Is this what CKS means when he says WE need to be more Explosive.
#4) admitting to smoking MJ, with crumbs found on the console.
Somewhere, someway this is not going away. Talking about CMR losing control. First reports of this was Cook driving a fellow player home after a few to many.
You wonder why the season went off, that’s 2 kids out of 85. Yea they were caught. With all the resources at CKS disposal they don’t know if the kids have a car, a frickin’ driver’s license. GTFOH ! What percentage of the 85 plus walk on’s numbering close to 120 kids practicing, dressing out fall in this category.
No wonder CKS doesn’t allow open practice, interviews of players and coaches. Bullshit…. the so call rumor mill of last years team at the Sugar Bowl gave a new meaning to Bourbon Street.
Discontent, no team unity, split dissension on the roster last year and same now. There needs to be a accountable answer from Mr. We Need to Get Better.
May B/M burn down with McGoofy brandishing the fire extinguishers on his way out the frickin’ door. Perhaps if CKS wasn’t flying all over the country he could have some reputable people get a handle on this. There is NO EXCUSE.
Of all the shitshows UGA has been through with run ins with the law in Athens…………this has got to stop.
Perhaps this goes no every where at all Power 5 schools. I will no longer submit my donations and my tickets for 20 years goes to the next man who has a larger clip in his Glock.
Embarrassing……. to say but it is what it is. Can I recruit more thugs than you can. We wondered why Cook didn’t have playing time. Might be way the receivers can catch the ball seeing 3 coming at them
I can see the bottle Hell I can see the MJ. The loaded gun, underage no drivers license, along with a leased car……who’s name was it in.
Fess up CKS the cats done shit your litter 60 million litter box
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Verbose you are
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By the sound of it, everyone is assuming the person with the gun is black. because, who else would have a gun? Surely not one of the big’ole country boys. Y’all talk about gats and thugs. It’s just as logical to assume the person with the gun was Cleveland or Mays. Maybe not though, because they are white.
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Yeah, Cleveland definitely seems the type to be riding around town drinking Hennessy and smoking weed. And because he’s country he’s also more likely to be carrying a Glock. Difficult to argue that logic.
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The o-lineman was in the passenger seat. You can hunt with a handgun. Just because he’s in the car doesn’t mean he’s smoking weed. Or drinking hen. Can, logically, argue both ways. But, because he’s white, he’s not even considered to be the passenger. Just some black thug on the football team.
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I mentioned this elsewhere, but I think the end result is that the charges against Cook may ultimately be tossed out.
Unless there’s more within the police report that the article glosses over, there seems no legal basis for initiating the traffic stop. Plate wasn’t expired, stolen, or marked as ‘uninsured’. No traffic laws broken per the article.All of the charges stem from the traffic stop.
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“an open bottle of cognac”
“a dealer tag”
“w/o proof of insurance”
“parking in a handicapped space”
“invalid driver’s license”
“marijuana smell”
“admission of marijuana use”
“and a pistol in the glove compartment”
“On the ninth day of Christmas…”
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