FSU Linebacker Subdued With Taser By Police, Tampa Tribune, June 11, 2005:


Florida State senior linebacker A.J. Nicholson was subdued with a Taser and arrested around 2 a.m. Friday after hiding from police in bushes at an off-campus apartment complex under construction, according to Tallahassee Police Department records.

Nicholson, 21, was taken to the Leon County Jail, charged with misdemeanor resisting arrest without violence, and released on $150 bond. Nicholson, who led the team in tackles in 2004 and heads into his final season as an All-American candidate, is in a pretrial intervention program over his February arrest on DUI charges in Tallahassee.

According to a TPD shift report, two officers on patrol at 1:58 a.m. observed a man running into an apartment complex under construction at the 600 block of W. Virginia St. and, due to time and circumstances, felt they had “reasonable suspicion” to stop him.

The man, later identified as Nicholson, instead hid in nearby bushes, where the officers found him. When he refused to comply with officers’ orders, he was subdued with the Taser and placed under arrest.

Police then learned from off-duty officers working at a nearby nightclub that Nicholson had fled when officers at the club had attempted to eject him following an incident involving “disorderly conduct and drinking violations.”