{"id":3994,"date":"2012-10-04T19:35:50","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T23:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3.31"},"modified":"2012-10-04T19:35:50","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T23:35:50","slug":"missouri-suspends-five-players-after-marijuana-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/10\/04\/missouri-suspends-five-players-after-marijuana-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri suspends five players after marijuana bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/doralbeckham.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-32\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2012\/10\/doralbeckham.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Five players on the Missouri football team have been suspended for Saturday&#8217;s game against Vanderbilt. Three of the players including wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham were arrested. The players were caught by campus police after allegedly smoking marijuana near the football stadium.<\/p>\n<p>University police said Thursday that Green-Beckham, linebacker Torey Boozer and wide receiver Levi Copelin were sitting in a white Lincoln Navigator in a parking lot near Memorial Stadium shortly before midnight when a patrol officer approached and smelled marijuana. Green-Beckham was the driver, Capt. Brian Weimer said.<\/p>\n<p>The players were arrested on a misdemeanor charge of possession of 35 grams or less of marijuana and later released with a court summons.<\/p>\n<p>As the Associated Press reports &#8220;Under a 2004 ballot measure approved by city voters, possession of small amounts of pot in Columbia is treated as a low-level offense in municipal court similar to a traffic citation. Violators typically pay a fine of no more than $250 and receive community service in lieu of jail time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conviction is dropped if the offender stays out of legal trouble for another year.<\/p>\n<p>Thus far the team has chosen to suspend the players for the upcoming game. Any future punishments will come at a later time. Green-Beckham is the only player of the five suspended who has seen significant action.<\/p>\n<p>Missouri is 3-2 on the season and 0-2 in the Southeastern Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five players on the Missouri football team have been suspended for Saturday&#8217;s game against Vanderbilt. Three of the players including wide receiver Dorial Green-Beckham were arrested. The players were caught by campus police after allegedly smoking marijuana near the football stadium. University police said Thursday that Green-Beckham, linebacker Torey Boozer and wide receiver Levi Copelin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[675],"class_list":["post-3994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3994"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}