Alabama freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell was arrested last Wednesday in Florida Florida and charged with possession of marijuana with intent to sell and/or deliver.
This week, he found out his fate from his head coach.
Mitchell has been suspended by the team and “all team activities,” coach Nick Saban said Monday after the first practice of the spring. Saban said Mitchell will remain suspended as the school gathers information about his arrest and his legal circumstance.
“Everybody’s got an opportunity to make choices and decisions,” Saban said. “There’s no such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
The Holmes County sheriff’s office announced on Facebook last Thursday Mitchell evaded police at 141 mph before later being stopped, and that more than $7,000 in cash and 226 grams of marijuana were recovered from his vehicle.
Continued Saban: “You’ve got to be responsible for who you’re with, who you’re around and what you do; who you associate yourself and the situations that you put yourself in. It is what it is, but there is cause and effect when you make choices and decisions that put you in bad situations.”
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Mitchell was a four-star prospect in the 2023 high school class ranked No. 123 in 247 Sports’ composite rankings.
