Kentucky LB arrested for trafficking marijuana

Jason Hatcher had two sacks for Kentucky last season. (USATSI)

Kentucky linebacker Jason Hatcher was arrested early Monday morning on three separate charges, the most serious of which appears to be marijuana trafficking. Kentucky announced Hatcher had been dismissed from the team for a “violation of team rules” later Monday morning.

According to the Franklin Country Regional Jail, via the Courier-Journal, the charges against Hatcher are speeding, trafficking in marijuana, tampering with physical evidence and buy/possession of drug paraphernalia.

Hatcher was pulled over for speeding on Monday morning, and the officer who pulled him over reported smelling marijuana in the car. After searching the car, the officer found a quarter pound of marijuana stuffed down Hatcher’s pants and another three-quarters of a pound in a vacuum-sealed bag in the passenger floorboard. Do the math and that’s a pound of weed, which brought on the trafficking charge, which is used when anywhere from eight ounces to five pounds of marijuana is discovered.

This is not Hatcher’s first run-in with the law involving marijuana, either.

In May 2014, he was cited for possession of marijuana while in the apartment of Louisville receiver James Quick. The charge was later dismissed. Hatcher was also suspended for the first two games of the 2015 season for the infamous “undisclosed violation of team rules.”

Hatcher had 39 tackles, 5.5 for loss, and two sacks in nine games for the Wildcats last season.

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