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Colts’ Keith arrested outside club; team re-signs 3 key reserves

Running back to appear in court Wednesday

INDIANAPOLIS – Colts running back Kenton Keith was out of jail Monday after being arrested for refusing to leave a nightclub parking lot and yelling at officers that he was a Colts player who had done nothing wrong, police said.\nOfficers working security tried to clear a crowd from the parking lot of the Cloud 9 club after it closed at 3 a.m. Sunday. The 27-year-old Keith and several others refused to leave and were laughing, dancing and joking, police said.\nPolice eventually ordered them to put their hands on a vehicle, but Keith refused and took out a cell phone to record the incident, according to an Indianapolis police report.\nHe kept saying, “I’m a Colts player, I’m a Colts player,” the report said.\nPolice handcuffed him when he refused to put his hands behind his back and he was taken to jail, police said.\nKeith was charged with misdemeanor counts of disorderly conduct, resisting law enforcement, public intoxication and contributing to the delinquency of a minor, because a man he brought to the club with him was 19, police said. He was released from jail later Sunday on his own recognizance. His initial hearing is set for Wednesday.\nThere was no phone number in the Indianapolis area for Keith. The Colts said in statement that the team was aware of the arrest but had no comment about the specifics of the case.\n“Any incident involving any players with law enforcement we view very seriously, and we will act accordingly,” team president Bill Polian said in the statement.\nKeith has been with the Colts for one season after playing in the Canadian Football League. He scored four touchdowns last season, with 533 rushing yards and 77 receiving yards.

Indy re-signs Reid, \nGandy, Fletcher\nOn Monday, the Colts re-signed defensive tackle Darrell Reid, offensive guard Dylan Gandy and tight end Bryan Fletcher, all restricted free agents.\nTerms of their new contracts were not disclosed, although all three received one-year qualifying offers in February. They all will be starting their fourth season in the NFL this year.\nReid, an undrafted free agent from Minnesota in 2005, has two career starts and led the team with 22 tackles on special teams last season. He was the AFC special teams player of the week after four tackles against Houston in December.\nGandy, a fourth-round selection from Texas Tech in 2005, has started 14 games in three seasons. Fletcher, who signed with the Colts as a free agent out of UCLA in 2005, has started 18 of 46 games in three seasons. He had 143 yards receiving last season.

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