More details released in arrest of IU basketball point guard Xavier Johnson

Indiana point guard Xavier Johnson was arrested early Sunday morning on preliminary rates of resisting legislation enforcement with a auto and reckless driving, in accordance to Monroe County Correctional Center data. He was released from the Monroe County Jail at 10:32 a.m., on Sunday on $2,000 surety, $500 income bond. Click here to see his records.

The resisting law enforcement with a car or truck demand is a Class 6 felony. The reckless driving charge is a Class C misdemeanor.

According to court records, Johnson will face an first listening to at 1 p.m., Friday.

According to the possible bring about affidavit submitted by Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy Kyle Moulden, Moulden was driving southbound on Faculty Avenue in Bloomington from the Ind. 45/46 Bypass when he observed a Grey 2019 Dodge Charger touring northbound on Walnut Road at an extremely high rate of speed. Moulden wrote his radar confirmed the Charger was heading 90 miles for each hour in a 40 mph zone. There is ongoing construction on the east side of the street there, and Moulden wrote there were other vehicles on Walnut Avenue and pedestrians in Miller Showers-Park in between Walnut Street and School Avenue.

Moulden wrote he turned close to at Previous Point out Highway 37 and attempted to capture up to the Charger when it turned correct on to the Ind. 45/46 Bypass. Moulden wrote he flashed his emergency lights and siren and the Charger manufactured a brief switch into the apartment intricate at 2036 N. Walnut Avenue. Moulden wrote the Charger continued going at a superior charge of pace and disregarded a stop sign in just the sophisticated right before lastly pulling into a parking location on the southeast aspect of the advanced. At that point, Moulden wrote he observed Johnson get out of the automobile and adjust seats with Indiana University college student Lee Mariotti, who he wrote was sitting down in the back again of the automobile. Parker Stewart, a commencing guard for Indiana this time who has because entered the transfer portal, was also in the car.

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“I pulled up powering the Charger and turned on my highlight and shined it on the automobile,” Moulden wrote. “I obviously observed the driver jump into the back again seat and a rear passenger climb up to the driver’s seat. The Charger was shaking greatly and the rear passenger strike the horn when climbing in the front seat. All occupants were being taken off at gun position and positioned in handcuffs. The man or woman I to start with observed climb from the driver’s seat into the rear seat was identified as Xavier Johnson.”

Moulden wrote Johnson insisted in the course of the interrogation that he was not driving and mentioned that he was not driving due to the fact he was “drunk.” Nonetheless, the Charger had Virginia plates and was registered to his spouse and children, and he experienced the keys in his pocket. Johnson’s mothers and fathers stay in Woodbridge, Va.

Moulden’s probable cause affidavit does not mention any attempt to figure out if Johnson was drunk. Even so, according to Monroe County Sheriff Brad Swain, Johnson was administered a moveable breath exam for alcoholic beverages at the scene. The degree was really reduced, Swain explained, so fees for working when intoxicated were not pursued.

According to Moulden, Mariotti preserved throughout the interrogation he was driving the automobile. He was arrested and charged with false informing. He bonded out of jail on $1,000, surety, $500 dollars bond. He waived an original hearing, pled not responsible and has a pre-trial conference established for June 2.

According to Moulden, Stewart, who was in the entrance passenger seat, would not notify him who was driving the auto. Moulden wrote Stewart stated he told the driver to end, but would not say who the driver was, and reported Mariotti was “on the still left,” but would not say if he was in the driver’s seat or in the back. Stewart was not charged.

The men’s basketball method released a statement on Johnson’s arrest on Sunday early morning. An IU basketball spokesman claimed Wednesday the method experienced practically nothing still to incorporate to that statement.

“Indiana College Athletics and the men’s basketball application are mindful of the charges involving Xavier Johnson,” the assertion said. “IU Athletics will continue to collect specifics, cooperate with and watch the lawful approach, and get additional action as the evolving situation warrants.”

Johnson transferred to Indiana from Pittsburgh just after a few seasons with the Panthers before last spring, not prolonged following coach Mike Woodson was employed. He completed next on the team in scoring with 12.1 factors for each match and led the Hoosiers with 5.1 assists. He scored in double figures in his last 10 game titles of the season, averaging 16.6 factors per activity in that stretch and assisting the Hoosiers to two remarkable wins in the Large Ten match and a get about Wyoming in the 1st 4 of the NCAA match. He continue to has a single yr of eligibility remaining.

The 22-calendar year-previous Johnson was suspended for the Northwestern sport together with four other players for a violation of staff guidelines, which coach Mike Woodson indicated associated a violation of curfew on the highway. He left the Pittsburgh application prior to the 2020-21 season ended for causes that neither Johnson not the Pitt basketball plan has disclosed. He averaged 13.7 points and 4.9 assists in a few seasons with the Panthers and was named to the All-ACC Freshman Staff in 2018-19.

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