4 UMass players face drug charges
The UMass football team got a little thinner today as 4 players (DB James Carven, DL Robert McLaughlin, LB Michael Mele, and DB Shane Viveiros) were all arrested on class B drug possession charges Thursday night in downtown Amherst. These star athletes, who clearly aren’t sprinters, were arrested behind 11 East Pleasant Street by bicycle patrol after they observed suspicious activity.
Once hearing of the arrests, the UMass athletic department immediately suspended all four players. However, the AD is being open-minded and did not indicate if the suspensions were permanent or temporary since theoretically all four players are innocent until proven guilty.
During this morning’s arraignment, all four players pleaded innocent and were immediately released. For you legal nuts, under state law, class B drugs include cocaine, crack cocaine, LSD, OxyContin, ecstasy, meth, and methadone. The police report did not indicate which drugs were confiscated but there are pending lab tests that will confirm the exact substance.
