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Alabama freshman defensive lineman Jeremy Elder has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree robbery.
Elder was arrested Sunday and remained jailed Monday on $120,000 bond after two male Alabama students reported to campus police Saturday night that they were robbed by a gun-wielding man.
Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban said Elder has been "indefinitely suspended from all football-related activities.
"I won't have an announcement on his future status until I have had a chance to review all of the information," Saban said in a statement Monday. "The university and football program have strict guidelines regarding legal issues of this magnitude."
The two students reported a male approached them with a gun as they walked to their vehicle in the Small Group Housing parking lot shortly after 11 p.m., and took cash from one of the students.
Neither student was hurt during the robbery.
Elder, a 6-foot-3, 271-pounder from College Park, Ga., was redshirted last season.
Under state law, first-degree robbery involves either a "deadly weapon or dangerous instrument" or someone causing "serious physical injury to another." Both charges are Class A felonies.
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Posted by dallasdog1 on February 18, 2008 at 9:54 p.m. (Suggest removal)
why doesnt fulmer do something about this?
Posted by FWBVol on February 18, 2008 at 11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Come on John, where's the love for Miles? LSU is out of control. The probable starting quarterback suspended.
Let's see, in the last week South Carolina, Alabama along with UT have had players in trouble.
From the look of things, it isn't Phillip Fulmer, Les Miles, Nick Saban or Steve Spurrier that are the problems, it's the kids.
We glamorous thugs and drunks in movies and on TV and then we wonder why athletes get in trouble.
We have a serious problem in society that goes beyond college football teams and players. The more publicized athletes that are getting in trouble are just a reflection of what's happening in the world.
We need more role models such as Tony Dungy, A.C. Green and Darrell Green. We need men of all races to stand and be mentors and role models for not only the gifted athletes we watch on Saturdays, but for the average kid that nobody will ever hear about.
Posted by volguy on February 18, 2008 at 11:02 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Great question. I am sure it is his fault somehow. It's likely that Fulmer recruited this young man, obviously making him responsible for the young man's every action after that meeting.
Posted by volguy on February 18, 2008 at 11:03 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I think dallasdog1 was being facetious. Well, at least I hope he was!!!
Posted by Tnvolsfan4ever on February 18, 2008 at 11:09 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hey Adams, get your Lousiana corn dog stinking head out of the sand. It happens everywhere. At least we aren't shooting rifles off in the air or robbing people. GMAFB!
Posted by Volfan1 on February 18, 2008 at 11:52 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It's Fulmer's fault. That's what John Adams said.
Posted by Cleve on February 19, 2008 at 12:46 a.m. (Suggest removal)
News Flash, John Adams!! Britton Colquitt now being charged for holding up a tree stump with an empty wine cooler bottle! Our guys are sooo bad. Wahh Wahh Wahh. UT has not had a national championship is sooo long. Wahh Wahh Wahh. LSU is sooo perfect. Wahh Wahh Wahh. Get lost!!
Posted by pdhuff on February 19, 2008 at 7:17 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Let Bama fix their own problems. We have our own.
Each one is a sad situation that need to be addressed. Now.
Posted by BOASoldier on February 19, 2008 at 8:06 a.m. (Suggest removal)
let me see ... smoking pot.... bad ... drinking and driving .... horrible .... pulling a gun on someone to get a few bucks ... come on now there is a difference between thugs and partying too hard or having a drinking problem... see it could always be worse, but then again that's what happen when satan coaches.
Posted by stroker on February 19, 2008 at 9:04 a.m. (Suggest removal)
FWBVol well said.
Volfan1 lol.
Posted by GoVol on February 19, 2008 at 11:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
6ft, 3in and he needed a gun? Old habits hard to break. You can take him out of the neighborhood, but can't take the neighborhood out of him! Looks like Fulmer let one get away when recruiting!
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