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At the end of last month, Georgia Southern quarterback Shai Werts was pulled over for speeding. During the traffic stop, officers found a white substance on the hood of his car, which they concluded - and even confirmed - was cocaine.
As a result, Werts was charged with speeding and drug possession, a misdemeanor. This week, results from tests conducted by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division came back and proved that Werts had been telling the truth all along: that white stuff on the hood of his 2016 Dodge Charger was bird poop. And he had tried to wash it off but it wouldn’t come off.
USA Today confirms that the drug charges have been dropped, but Werts is still on the line for speeding. According to the dashcam footage released at the same time as the news of the charges being dropped, Werts initially refused to pull over for police even after the officers had turned on their lights and siren.
He also tried to convince them that he didn’t have cocaine spots on the hood of his car. “That's bird [expletive]. I swear to God. Can I tell you something? That's bird [expletive],” he kept telling the officers. One of the arresting cops replied, “Unless the bird inhaled cocaine.”
At the time of the arrest, deputies conducted two field tests (cocaine kits) of the substance, taking samples from two different parts of the hood. They were positive for the drug, so they arrested him for possession.
Werts’ attorney Townes Jones IV tells The Savannah Morning News that, even though he was wrongfully charged, he wouldn’t advice the quarterback to pursue legal action against the Saluda County Sheriff’s Office.
“They had a pretty credible basis for pursuing, and ultimately stopping him and that is speeding,” Jones says. “Then they didn’t do anything wrong by attempting to collect evidence, or what they saw as evidence even though they had no basis from looking at him and looking at the inside of his car to think that he was transporting drugs. […] It tested positive so they were acting within the bounds of the law at the time.”
USA Today confirms that the drug charges have been dropped, but Werts is still on the line for speeding. According to the dashcam footage released at the same time as the news of the charges being dropped, Werts initially refused to pull over for police even after the officers had turned on their lights and siren.
He also tried to convince them that he didn’t have cocaine spots on the hood of his car. “That's bird [expletive]. I swear to God. Can I tell you something? That's bird [expletive],” he kept telling the officers. One of the arresting cops replied, “Unless the bird inhaled cocaine.”
At the time of the arrest, deputies conducted two field tests (cocaine kits) of the substance, taking samples from two different parts of the hood. They were positive for the drug, so they arrested him for possession.
Werts’ attorney Townes Jones IV tells The Savannah Morning News that, even though he was wrongfully charged, he wouldn’t advice the quarterback to pursue legal action against the Saluda County Sheriff’s Office.
“They had a pretty credible basis for pursuing, and ultimately stopping him and that is speeding,” Jones says. “Then they didn’t do anything wrong by attempting to collect evidence, or what they saw as evidence even though they had no basis from looking at him and looking at the inside of his car to think that he was transporting drugs. […] It tested positive so they were acting within the bounds of the law at the time.”
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