Former NHL player Matthew Barnaby, who played for seven teams across 14 seasons, was arrested Thursday morning by Nashville police on charges of alleged assault and public intoxication, records show. 

According to a police report obtained by WGRZ Buffalo, Barnaby was involved in an altercation with his girlfriend and others at Nashville Crossroads bar downtown. A bouncer told police Barnaby choked him. 

Nashville police booked Barnaby into jail just after 1 a.m. and he was released around 9:30 a.m., his total bond charges amounting to $6,000. His next court appearance is scheduled for March 27, per records.

Barnaby took to Twitter Thursday afternoon, stating that he “will be vindicated very soon” and a “full statement would be coming soon.”

Barnaby entered the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres in 1992-93 and spent six seasons with the team before playing for six more organizations over the next eight years. He led the NHL in penalty minutes twice (1995-96, 2000-01) and finished with 2,562 over 834 games. He played until 2006-07.

ESPN hired Barnaby after his playing career to serve as a hockey analyst, a role he fulfilled for four years until the network fired him a day after he was charged with a DWI in 2011, which came after his ex-wife dropped five misdemeanor charges against him earlier that year. 

A men’s Drake basketball player has been arrested and charged in relation to the off-campus shooting of a 19-year-old university student.

Tremell Murphy, who is headed into his senior season as a student-athlete, has been charged with false reports to law enforcement and discharging a firearm within city limits, two misdemeanors, according to a news release from Des Moines police.

He was booked in the Polk County Jail on Thursday and bonded out about 90 minutes later.

Jarad Bernstein, a spokesman with the university, said officials there are conducting a review of the shooting, which they believed to be accidental. Murphy, one of the Bulldogs’ starters last season, has been removed from men’s basketball team activities, according a statement from Bernstein.

No statement is expected from the athletic department. 

The charges for Murphy stem from a report about 11 p.m. Aug. 31 in the 1100 block of 27th Street. Des Moines police officers arrived at the home and found a 19-year-old man with a towel being compressed on his head lying near a small pool of blood, according to an incident report.

Police were told the person had fallen, but an officer noticed a bullet hole in a wall near where the man was being treated. The round appeared to come through the wall from an adjacent room and a shell casing was found on a bed in that room, investigators found.

The victim, who authorities believe was shot from an adjacent room, has been identified, but the Register does not typically name the victims in shootings without their consent.

Murphy, a 6-foot-6 forward, eventually told investigators that the room where the casing was found was his and there was a gun in the home. 

“Murphy told officers that he had a .22 caliber pistol in a dresser drawer in the bedroom. One spent shell casing was recovered from the room,” the police release states. “Throughout this initial investigation, Murphy insisted that (the victim) had fallen and injured his head.”

The release later says that “Murphy indicated that he accidentally discharged the weapon. Murphy also admitted knowingly withholding information in regards to the shooting.”

Murphy, whom Drake basketball’s website lists as a native of Griffiith, Indiana, transferred to the Bulldogs from Florida Southwestern after being named an all-American at the junior college level in 2018. He started 32 games for Drake last season, averaging 10 points and six rebounds a game.

“This is a sad and difficult time for the Drake community,” Jerry Parker, Drake’s dean of students said in a statement Thursday. “Our thoughts are first and foremost with the injured student and his family, and with the hope of a full recovery. The injury is serious but not life-threatening, and, gratefully, no one else was hurt. The University will continue providing support to all of those affected by the incident, while we complete the internal review.”

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FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — NFL free agent Antonio Brown turned himself in at a Florida jail on Thursday night following accusations that he and his trainer attacked the driver of a moving truck that carried some of his possessions from California.

Brown, 31, arrived at Broward County Jail around 10 p.m. The wide receiver, wearing a turquoise suit buttoned over a green athletic jacket, walked out of the jail a few minutes after arriving, but then returned after conferring with his lawyer, who indicated that he would spend the night behind bars.

“He’s innocent of these charges. Hopefully we’ll get bond tomorrow and he’ll be acquitted of all charges,” attorney Eric Schwartzreich told WFOR-TV.

He is expected to appear before a judge in a bond court hearing on Friday.

A Hollywood police statement said Brown’s arrest warrant included charges of burglary with battery, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and criminal mischief. Officials responded Tuesday afternoon to a disturbance call where the alleged victim said Brown and his trainer, Glenn Holt, hit him outside Brown’s Hollywood home.

Patriots cornerback Joejuan Williams’ first NFL offseason isn’t off to a great start.

The 22-year-old man was arrested on drug-related charges on Jan. 17 after being pulled over in Cumberland County, about a hundred miles east of Nashville, a Tennessee Highway Patrol report shows.

According to reports and his arrest warrants, a trooper stopped Williams on Interstate 40 near mile marker 333 at 9:37 p.m. for speeding in his 2016 black Land Rover. The report shows he was traveling 90 mph in a 70 mph zone.

During a search, reports show the trooper found acetaminophen hydrocodone prescription pills, valacyclovir hydrocodone pills, “a large amount of marijuana,” hand-rolled marijuana cigarettes, and illegal paraphernalia inside the SUV.

He was cited for speeding and also charged with possession of a controlled substance, possession of drugs without a prescription and possession of drug paraphernalia, court records show.

Williams was booked into the Cumberland County jail that same day and released on Jan. 18 after posting a $37,500 bond.

He’s due in court on Feb. 21 to enter a plea in his respective charges, a Cumberland County General Sessions Court court clerk said Thursday.

NATCHITOCHES, La.  — Long before he became the beloved head football coach at undefeated LSU, this is where Ed Orgeron made some of the dumbest mistakes of his life and nearly threw away his future, according to local legend.

It was late 1982. Orgeron had just finished his junior season as a football player at the local university, Northwestern State. But he was on thin ice. He already had quit LSU as a freshman because he was homesick and didn’t like it there. Then after he joined NSU about 180 miles up the road, he had earned a reputation as a hell-raising, curfew-busting barroom brawler.

A new coach had just been hired, Sam Goodwin, who considered kicking him off the team, along with his roommate, after they were accused of trashing a dorm room.

The school’s housing director “took me into this one room, and every piece of furniture in there was broke,” Goodwin recalled this week as Orgeron prepared LSU for the national championship game against Clemson Monday in New Orleans.

“Just a total disaster,” he said. “He told me two of my players did all that, and it wasn’t the first time they had done it. One of them was Bébé Orgeron, and the other Bryan Arceneaux, both of them from South Lafourche.”

North Carolina State guard Eric Lockett was arrested and charged with assault early Thursday for an alleged altercation he had with a woman believed to be his ex-girlfriend on Tuesday, arrest records from the Raleigh Police Department show. 

According to online court records, Lockett is accused of hitting the woman in the face during an argument that saw an Uber driver call the police.

In his first court appearance Thursday morning, a judge ordered the 23-year-old to have no contact with the alleged victim. He is currently being held without bond at the Wake County (N.C.) Detention Center. Because he has no previous criminal history, Lockett is eligible for the pretrial release program that would set his bond at $1,500. His next court date is slated for March 27. 

N.C. State coach Kevin Keatts said in a statement issued by the university that Lockett was indefinitely suspended. “We await additional information,” he added. 

Messages made by USA TODAY Sports to reach Lockett’s attorney or legal representation were unsuccessful. 

Lockett, a senior grad transfer averaging 5.0 points and 3.3 rebounds per game this season, missed Wednesday’s game against Syracuse. 

Free agent pitcher Rich Hill, who spent the last four seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers, was arrested at the New England Patriots-Buffalo Bills game on Saturday as he and his wife were charged with disorderly conduct. 

Foxborough police told the Boston Globe that Hill’s wife, Caitlin, repeatedly tried to enter Gillette Stadium with an oversized bag. When she was turned away several times and refused to leave the area, police arrested her. That’s when the 15-year MLB veteran intervened. 

“He saw her as they were trying to get her into a van to bring to the police station, and he started to interfere with the officers,’’ Robert Bolger, chief administrator for Foxborough police, told the Globe. “He was told several times to back up and he would not. And he ended up getting arrested.”

The Hills were both arraigned Monday, when Rich Hill’s charge of resisting arrest was dismissed and he was fined $500 for disorderly conduct. Caitlin Hill had her criminal charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing converted to civil infractions and was fined a total of $500.

“Despite Saturday’s events, my great respect for law enforcement remains unchanged,” Hill said in a statement released by his attorney. “However, seeing my wife handcuffed for a problem that was started because of her fanny pack was extremely difficult for me to witness. This was all overblown and we are glad to have it behind us.”

A native of Milton, Massachusetts, Hill spent three seasons with the Red Sox from 2010-12. He began his career with the Chicago Cubs in 2005 and played for five other teams before the Dodgers acquired him at the 2016 trade deadline.

Hill, 39, has enjoyed his greatest success in his late 30s with the Dodgers, going 30-16 with a 3.16 ERA over 361 1/3 innings. His three-year, $48 million contract expired this offseason, making him a free agent. However, he will miss at least the first half of the 2020 season recovering from elbow surgery in October.

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Middle Tennessee State football player Reginald Ezekiel Cobb was arrested on Monday on two counts of rape, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office.

The charges stem from a Sept. 1, 2018, assault, according to court documents.

Cobb, known as Zeke, is being held at the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center on a $60,000 bond, according to the indictment filed Nov. 6 in Circuit Court. A hearing is set for Nov. 26 in Circuit Court.

Cobb was served with a sealed indictment, according to Murfreesboro Police Department spokesman Larry Flowers.

“He’s charged with two counts of rape stemming from an incident in 2018,” Flowers said Tuesday afternoon.

The charges indicate the assault victim was mentally incapacitated or physically helpless at the time. Further details were not included in the indictment documents. 

A native of Dalton, Georgia, Cobb came to MTSU for the 2017 season but suffered a knee injury and did not play. The receiver played in four games last season with one reception. He has no receptions this season.

He has been suspended from the team pending the outcome of the legal process, MTSU coach Rick Stockstill said. 

 “It is very disappointing and, if substantiated, such actions do not represent or reflect the standards we have worked extremely hard to develop for our program,” MTSU coach Rick Stockstill said. 

Former NBA player and one-time University of Alabama basketball standout Jim Farmer is facing a human trafficking charge in Tennessee.

Farmer, 55, of Franklin, Tennessee, was among 16 men arrested on charges of seeking sex from minors, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation reported this week. A statement from the agency says the men were arrested during a two-day sting operation that began on Oct. 24.

According to an arrest affidavit, Farmer responded to an adult escort advertisement on Oct. 25 in regards to meeting a juvenile for sex. 

During the communication, a female undercover officer identified herself as a 16-year-old girl. Farmer, the affidavit continues, agreed to pay $170 to have sex with the girl.

Farmer arrived at a predetermined location made between the two and was subsequently arrested on one count of trafficking of sexual servitude, authorities said.

He was booked into the Rutherford County jail that same day and released Tuesday on $75,000 bond.

A Rutherford County court clerk said Farmer is due in court for a hearing on the charge on Nov. 13.

A representative for Farmer didn’t immediately return a message seeking comment Wednesday.

Farmer has worked as a country music singer and model since last playing in the NBA in 1994, when he was with Denver. He also played for Dallas, Utah, Seattle and Philadelphia over six total seasons.

Farmer was a leading scorer at Alabama, averaging 16.5 points a game in his final season before he was picked in the first round of the NBA draft in 1987.

After his professional basketball career, Farmer pursued a country music career in the early 2000s that included the release of a 10-song album, “Baby Come On.”

Matthew Leimkueher and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — UConn freshman basketball player James Bouknight faces several charges after police say he ran from an officer following a crash on campus.

Police say Bouknight was driving a car that struck a street sign while speeding on Sept. 27. Police say Bouknight told responding officers he didn’t have identification with him and later ran off.

Police say Bouknight has since provided them with a statement admitting his actions.

He has been charged with evading responsibility, interfering with a police officer, traveling too fast for conditions and operation of a motor vehicle without a license.

He’s scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 29.

The guard issued a statement to apologize and called his actions irresponsible.

UConn coach Dan Hurley says there will be consequences both “within the structure of the team as well as on the outside.”