ATHENS — A star football player for the University of Georgia allegedly led a police officer on a high-speed chase through the Athens campus on Jan. 10, hours after the team won its second consecutive national football championship.
Five days later, police officers questioned the same player, linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson, minutes after a fatal car crash involving two other players and two members of the team’s recruiting staff. Police are investigating whether racing was involved in the Jan. 15 crash, according to records reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Dumas-Johnson, 21, was arrested Wednesday on misdemeanor charges of street racing and reckless driving related to the Jan. 10 incident. He turned himself in at the Athens-Clarke County jail and was released 41 minutes later. Authorities allowed him to go free without posting the $4,000 bond normally required on the charges, jail records show.
