Alabama freshman DB Tony Mitchell attempted to flee at 141 mph: police

Alabama freshman defensive again Tony Mitchell tried to evade police by driving at 141 mph earlier than his arrest final Wednesday, in line with police data obtained by AL.com.

Holmes County, Fla., police wrote of their report that Mitchell “admitting to fleeing regulation enforcement,” and claimed his passenger, Christopher Lewis informed him to “punch it.”

Police discovered $7,000 in money and 226 grams of marijuana — in addition to a loaded gun — within the automotive, a black Dodge Challenger.

Mitchell and Lewis had been every charged with possession of marijuana and intent to promote and/or distribute, whereas Lewis was additionally charged with carrying a hid firearm with out a allow.

Police tried to provoke a site visitors cease after they clocked him going 78 mph in a 55 mph zone.

Lewis then accelerated to 141 mph, inflicting officers to lose him, per their report.

When the car once more handed by the place the cops had been stationed, they had been capable of pull him over.

Officers discovered Mitchell’s eyes to be “purple and glazy” whereas he provided gradual and delayed responses to their questions.

“When requested if there was marijuana within the car, Mitchell produced a baggie of marijuana from the passenger floorboard,” the Holmes County Sheriff’s Workplace wrote on its Fb web page on March 16. “Each Mitchell and Lewis had been taken into custody.”

Mitchell was suspended by the workforce and “all workforce actions,” coach Nick Saban mentioned on the Crimson Tide’s first spring observe.

“All people’s received a possibility to make decisions and choices,” he informed reporters on Monday. “There’s no such factor as being within the mistaken place on the mistaken time.

“You’ve received to be answerable for who you’re with, who you’re round and what you do; who you affiliate your self and the conditions that you just put your self in. It’s what it’s, however there’s trigger and impact while you make decisions and choices that put you in dangerous conditions.”