Astros OF'er Arrested

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chron.com

Astros outfielder Jordan Schafer was arrested early Tuesday morning by Tampa, Fla. police and charged with one count of felony possession of marijuana.

Schafer was arrested in Tampa at 12:38 a.m. Eastern Time and booked more than an hour later. He was released at 5:15 a.m. on his own $2,000 bond.

It is not the first off-field trouble for Schafer, who was suspended for use of human growth hormone while a member of the Atlanta Braves. The now-25-year-old was part of the package sent to the Astros in exchange for Michael Bourn at the trading deadline and had been the Astros’ regular center fielder after his broken hand healed.

The Astros declined comment on the arrest.

According to a police report, Schafer was pulled over in a 2008 Land Rover with an expried Mississippi license plate after pulling up next to an unmarked police vehicle. (Schafer played in the Braves’ minor league system in Mississippi.)

The report said the driver’s and passenger’s side windows were partially down with a “strong odor of marijuana” coming from the vehicle. Schafer was also said in the report to have a joint in his hand. The police conducted a traffic stop for the expried plate and found a clear plastic bag with a leafy substance that tested positive as marijuana.

The 25.9 grams that the police report claims were in the bag exceed the 20-gram cutoff for felony charges rather than misdemeanor. Schafer also, according to the report, had three marijuana peanut butter cups in the car and claimed ownership of all the drugs.

Earlier in the night, Schafer, under his Twitter handle @jordanschafer, tweeted that he was tailgating before the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Monday Night Football game against the Indianapolis Colts.

[EAGLE07]

and the [b]stupidity[/b] beat goes on and on and on.

[HubTx]

If I was the GM in Houston, as bad as our team is, I would cut the guy immediately....

If you're going to lose 100 games anyway, you don't need an idiot like that around.....