Three Tennessee football players were arrested on drug charges in connection with an incident Tuesday night in a campus dorm.
Second-year linebacker Martavius French and recruits Aaron Willis and Isaac Washington are among five people arrested on charges of simple possession and illegal drug paraphernalia, according to the University of Tennessee police diary published on Friday. market. The university police sent a security warning after the Stokely Hall incident, described as a robbery and theft by a group of four or five men.
According to the warning, a resident of Stokely Hall was beaten by a man, while “three to four other men entered the residence and went to another room in the apartment, where it was believed that items belonging to the victim were taken”. The victim and a roommate were unable to identify the group that entered the room.
Memphis native French did not play for Tennessee last season. Willis, a Baltimore linebacker, is an ESPN 300 recruit in the 2021 class. Washington is a defensive striker for North Carolina. Another Tennessee student, who is not an athlete, was arrested along with an unidentified young man.
ESPN contacted Tennessee football to comment on the arrests.