The UGA football team took another off-the-field hit on Friday morning, as running back Washun Ealey was arrested, being charged with hit-and-run on a parked vehicle and driving on a suspended license.
Ealey was driving a gold Chevrolet Impala and hit a parked truck in the East Deck on the UGA campus around 3:19 a.m. Employees that work at the parking deck told Ealey to stop but he said he couldn’t and drove away.
Officers arrived on the scene and ran information on the car that Ealey was driving, and found out that car he was driving was not his. It was actually his roommate’s car and when officers talked to the roommate, he told them Ealey has been driving his car.
Once officers talked to Ealey, who told the officers about the accident, they found out he was driving on a suspended license. He was booked into the Clarke County Jail at 5:22 a.m. and was released at 11:18 a.m.
Ealey, a sophomore from Stillmore. Ga., lead the team in rushing last year with 717 yards on 125 carries. Along with Caleb King, they made one of the more dynamic running tandems in the SEC towards the end of the 2009 season. There is no word yet on what the arrest would do for Ealey in the season opener next Saturday, but he was not slated to start in the game on September 4 against Louisiana-Lafayette, but he would have split the carries with King just like last season.
Ealey is the eighth player to be arrested this year, three of them (Montez Robinson, Trent Dittmer and Zach Mettemberger) were kicked off the team. Wide receiver Tavarres King was arrested for underage alcohol possession a few weeks ago, and will miss just one game which is the September 4 opener. The minimum suspension for an arrest at UGA is one game.
University of Georgia sophomore tailback Washaun Ealey has been suspended by head coach Mark Richt for a minimum of one game as a result of his arrest early Friday morning on charges of hit-and-run of a parked vehicle and driving with a suspended license.
“I’m extremely disappointed in Washaun¹s lack of good judgment,” said Richt. “He was fully aware of his suspended license and had been instructed not to get behind the wheel. As a result he’ll miss at least the first game and will also be subject to internal discipline.”
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