Suspended Georgia football offensive lineman arrested after crash at apartment complex

A Georgia football player who was suspended this week after crashing the front of his vehicle into an apartment complex in Watkinsville was arrested in Oconee County on Friday.Offensive lineman Marques Easley was charged with reckless conduct, a misdemeanor.He was booked into the Oconee County jail at 4:35 p.m.

Friday and released at 5:04 p.m.

on a $1,000 bond, according to an online booking report.Investigating state troopers said evidence suggested that Easley had been laying drag," according to a crash report obtained by the Athens Banner-Herald Friday.Easley was driving a 2021 Dodge Challenger west on Redwood Lane Monday at about 10:07 p.m.

in a reckless disregard, when he lost control and began to rotate clockwise and ran off the road before striking a power distribution box with the front , according to a crash report from Georgia Department of Public Safety.He then struck the passenger side of a parked 2013 Hyundai Elantra with his driver's side.

That caused the Elantra to hit a parked 2018 Mercedes-Benz CLA.

The parked cars were outside the Athens Ridge Apartment Complex.After Easleys Dodge collided with the Elantra, the Dodge struck the front of an apartment, with its front coming to a final rest, the crash report said.Easley, a redshirt freshman from Peorioa, Ill., said he lost control of the car and was traveling at 25 to 30 miles per hour before the crash, the crash report said.The investigating troopers found this to be an inaccurate account of (what) happened due to the amount of damage from the crash and the fact that (the Dodge Challenger) had tire marks going back an estimated 200 feet, the report said.Easleys arrest is the 32nd known incident by a Georgia football player or a member of the support staff that has been charged with speeding, racing, reckless driving or reckless conduct going back to the Jan.

15, 2023 death of football player Devin Willock and support staffer Chandler LeCroy.They were killed in a high-speed crash in which police say LeCroy and former Georgia defensive lineman Jalen Carter were racing at more than 100 miles per hour.

LeCroy was found to have had a blood alcohol level of more than twice the legal limit.Easley and wide receiver Nitro Tuggle were suspended indefinitely from team activities by Georgia Thursday.Tuggle was arrested early Thursday in Athens for reckless driving and speeding.After announcing the suspensions of Tuggle and Easley Thursday, Georgia athletics said it had no further comment.This article originally appeared on Athens Banner-Herald: Suspended Georgia football lineman Marques Easley arrested after crash.

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