A Lipscomb baseball player was arrested and charged with resisting arrest after police subdued him and a Lipscomb golfer, who is charged with underage drinking, Saturday night at a party near the university.
According to affidavits from the Metropolitan Police Department, sophomore baseball player Hunter Brothers and sophomore golfer Paul Kleine-Kracht were arrested by police at a party taking place at a home across the street from the baseball field, on the corner of Woodvale Drive and Granny White Pike.
Brothers received the charges when he refused to cooperate with officers’ commands, police said.
The arrests sprang from the confusion after police arrived at the house in response to several noise complaints by neighbors. According to the police affidavit, after they confronted a resident about the noise level of the party, many frightened party-goers fled the scene on foot.
Brothers, 20, also tried to flee but didn’t make it, resisting arrest in the process, according to officers. After being apprehended by officers, Brothers continued to try and escape. He finally relented and gave in to police officers’ demands.
Kleine-Kracht, 19, willingly submitted to police during his arrest.
Both were under the legal drinking age, and both allegedly violated the university’s no-alcohol policy.
The university released the following statement in regard to the weekend incident.
“As you may know, privacy laws in higher education prevent us from commenting on details of student conduct issues,” the statement said. “We always hold our students to a high standard and are disappointed whenever those standards are not met. Lipscomb takes these standards seriously and will vigorously pursue student misconduct.”
this needs to come down. It’s not fair for the school to pick and choose what stories they want to run and if it’s about one of our own students you should re-evaluate what kind of a school your working for. We are supposed to support our students even during the hard times not humiliate them for the whole student body to see.