GREENFIELD, Ind. — Hancock County Prosecutor Dean Dobbins said Wednesday he will not file charges against a National Football League player from Indianapolis who was arrested Tuesday night on a public intoxication charge.
Dean Dobbins said Jeremy Trueblood, 27, an offensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was doing what they encourage people to do when they have been drinking — using a designated driver.
Trueblood and two other passengers in the vehicle had been golfing and had asked the player’s mother to drive them. She had not been drinking, authorities said
Greenfield police Maj. Derek Towle said officers were called to a Gas America at 815 E. Main St. at about 7 p.m. Tuesday after someone reported intoxicated people who had left the store.
An officer saw a vehicle that matched the description provided by the caller as he was on his way to the gas station and pulled the vehicle over.
Towle said that as an officer spoke to the driver, a passenger who identified himself as Benjamin McKinney, a Hamilton County corrections officer, told him that “everything was all right.”
The officer asked for the identification of all people in the vehicle, after which the passengers “became uncooperative, belligerent and verbally abusive to the officers,” Towle said.
Police said McKinney, 26, and Trueblood, 27, didn’t cooperate with officers and that both were arrested on public intoxication charges.
Dobbins said Trueblood was not belligerent and didn’t get out of the vehicle until he was told to do so. All four were cited for not wearing seat belts.
Trueblood played at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. He went on to Boston College before being drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2006 NFL draft.
Trueblood has been with the Bucs for five seasons.
