Three Tennessee football players arrested: Nu’Keese Richardson, Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards
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It has been a long, controversial season for Tennessee football Coach Lane Kiffin, and it just got longer.
Three freshman Tennessee football players, part of Kiffin’s first recruiting class, were charged with an attempted armed robbery today.
According to Knoxville police, wide receiver Nu’Keese Richardson and defensive back Janzen Jackson and Mike Edwards were arrested after the early morning incident.
The victims told police they were sitting in their parked vehicle at a gas station near Tennessee’s campus when two men, one brandishing a handgun, approached. When the victims showed they had no money, the suspects joined a third man in a Toyota Prius and left.
Police located a Prius matching the description, and the victims identified Richardson and Edwards as the men who approached their vehicle.
Officers say they found a pellet gun, drug paraphernalia and a plastic bag containing what appeared to be marijuana.
-- Houston Mitchell