Three freshmen football players face charges

An IU freshman football player was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with illegal consumption of alcohol by a minor, public intoxication and resisting arrest after police found him passed out in a McNutt Residence Center stairwell.\nFreshman linebacker Da-\nrius Johnson was one of five IU football players cited or arrested by police \nSunday morning. \nIU Police Department Lt. Jerry Minger said Johnson faces preliminary charges of resisting arrest after he fought with police officers and the ambulance crew that eventually took him to \nthe hospital. \n“He became belligerent when he came to,” Minger said. “Once they got him on a gurney, he started kicking with his legs and they restrained him.”\nMinger said once Johnson was in the ambulance, he passed out again. When he awoke, he removed his IV and had to be \nrestrained again. \nJohnson wasn’t the only Hoosier football player to encounter IUPD Saturday night. Freshman safety Jarrell Drane and freshman linebacker Ian Reeves were issued written citations for illegal consumption outside of McNutt, but were not arrested. \nJohnson’s arrest and Drane and Reeves’ citations came on the same night junior James Bailey and sophomore Demetrius McCray were arrested for disorderly conduct. \nBailey and McCray were arrested and taken to Monroe County Jail after the Bloomington Police Department was called to their apartment a second time that evening because of \nnoise complaints. \nIU Athletics spokesman Jeff Keag issued a statement that said, “We are aware of the situation and any team discipline will be \nhandled internally.”