Nick Saban confirmed Monday that freshman defensive back Tony Mitchell had been suspended from the team and all team activities after his arrest Wednesday.
Mitchell was arrested after he was pulled over by Holmes County, Florida, sheriff’s deputies. According to the sheriff’s department, the car Mitchell was driving had more than $7,000 in cash and 226 grams of marijuana in it.
Mitchell has been charged with marijuana possession and intent to sell/distribute. The sheriff's department also said that he admitted to trying to flee police and hit 141 MPH before he was pulled over in the arrest reportMonday evening, Saban said there was “no such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” when referring to Mitchell’s arrest.
“Everybody’s got an opportunity to make choices and decisions, there’s no such thing as being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Saban said at a spring practice news conference. “Gotta be responsible for who you’re with, who you’re around, what you do and who you associate with and the situations 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.
Saban is the second Alabama coach to reference wrong place at the wrong time language in a news conference recently. Alabama basketball coach Nate Oats told reporters in February that star freshman forward Brandon Miller was in the “wrong spot at the wrong time” in the fatal shooting of Jamea Harris on Jan. 15.
Former Alabama basketball player Darius Miles has been charged with capital murder in Harris' death as Miles' gun was allegedly used by Michael Davis in the shooting. Per police testimony on the day of Oats' remark,
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