Comments on Advance Indiana™: I'm Shocked, Shocked: Colts Player Arrested For Disorderly Conduct

He has been for some time, Concerned Taxpayer. I'...

2009-02-10T12:05:00.000-05:00

He has been for some time, Concerned Taxpayer. I'll give you something else to think about: The same guys on the force who work for Mayor Ballard, driving him, etc, work the sidelines at the Colts games.

But in either their case or Chief Spears, I am sure there is noooo conflict of interest, nope.

And now we find out that the chief of police of IM...

2009-02-10T10:11:00.000-05:00

And now we find out that the chief of police of IMPD is also a Colts employee!!

What gives?

I think some of you are forgetting that the Colts ...

2009-02-10T08:29:00.000-05:00

I think some of you are forgetting that the Colts have only had a few minor run ins with the law and when they did, they have been dealt with firmly. The Colts organization is not like the Pacers who seem to seek out thugs and then ignore their bad behavior. The Colts organization has much more class than that and if there is any substance to this allegation, you can count on DR being dealt with..I must admit that at this point, it sounds more like a cop/security guard out of control than it does Colts problem.

Jason:Sorry but when you're wanting to dirty up th...

2009-02-10T07:49:00.000-05:00

Jason:

Sorry but when you're wanting to dirty up the Colts so your attacks on the CIB will be more effects (after all, who wouldn't be angry at the CIB for subsidizing a bunch of "thugs"), then you don't care about DR's side.

Well, not that Darrell isn't an angel but I'd have...

2009-02-09T23:39:00.000-05:00

Well, not that Darrell isn't an angel but I'd have a hard time taking his word for it. From what it sounds like one or the other of them was evidently stalking the other for him to see him at all these places. Then again, if all of this stuff is so widely known I wonder what hole I've been living in lately. Maybe I should spend more time in Castleton on the weekends.

If some random guy walked up to me and handed me a cell phone at work I'd hang it up too, but that's just me. Again, if the owner had walked outside it wouldn't have been an issue. Cursing has nothing to do with disorderly conduct. It's not what you say so much as how you say it, i.e. loud and frustrated (and refusing to leave.) I'd chalk it up to a misunderstanding, but nevertheless one guy went to jail and one guy went home. Screaming and yelling never does anybody any good, especially when somebody can do what everybody else was probably thinking (get rid of the knucklehead causing the raucus).

I have heard the story from Darrell's side and he ...

2009-02-09T10:36:00.000-05:00

I have heard the story from Darrell's side and he said he was on the phone with the club owner who was instructing him to park in front of the club and that he would meet him at the door and escort him in. Darrell was not even allowed to get close enough where it would have been reasonable for the owner to meet him. DR saw this same police officer in the same club hitting on women in his group while on duty the weekend before and following that event at the local Perkins with women in and around his police vehicle. DR's camp also says the police officer was the first person to mention that he was a Colts player and that DR was not expecting any special treatment but was just following the owners instructions. He even offered to hand his phoen over to the police officer so he could speak with the owner directly. I believe this is more a case of a police officer that likes tro be the center of attention and may have soem jealousy issues with Colts players. Again, Darrell was NOT DRUNK (he ALWAYS gets a limo when he plans on drinking and that is widely known), had NO DRUGS, and did not threaten or cuss at the police officer but simply got loud and frustrated with the police officers attitude.

When you're working as an agent of the owner of sa...

2009-02-09T02:26:00.000-05:00

When you're working as an agent of the owner of said premises (i.e. being paid to work security), you have the authority to both trespass people from the property and arrest them for trespass if they refuse to leave the property.

If you let everybody in the parking lot who said they knew the owner (and EVERYBODY knows the owner), you'd have a fire hazard. It would have made more sense for him to do it the way they do at every other bar in the world, have the owner come out and walk him through, OR give instructions to the person you hired to act as agent of said premises.

Sounds like he was arrested for what was called co...

2009-02-08T23:37:00.000-05:00

Sounds like he was arrested for what was called contempt of cop in the old days. Who gave the police the right to tell him to leave the parking lot? If he knew the owner, maybe the owner would have had 4 people leave. Anybody who has any experience in these things should always approach the polcie version with caution. How was he guilty of disolrderly conduct? The officer had to have authority of the owner to make it trespass. I am aware of the Colts getting special treatemnt fromt his prosecutor's office but one should not assume, especially if one is an attorney, that everything IMPD officersw say is true. PS I wish the city had called the Colts bluff on their empty threat to go to LA.