Georgia soccer vast receiver Rodarius “Rara” Thomas was arrested for felony false imprisonment early Monday after standing in entrance of a fourth flooring East Campus Village dorm room door, blocking the exit and telling a feminine who he argued with that she couldn’t go away, based on a police incident report obtained Tuesday.
The Mississippi State switch was additionally charged with misdemeanor battery/household violence for allegedly bruising the feminine’s bicep and inflicting abrasions to her shins. The girl instructed police she and Thomas lived collectively in Mississippi and in his native Alabama and have been planning to stay collectively in an Athens residence.
The incident occurred at 11:30 pm Sunday at McWhorter Hall. Thomas was arrested at 3 am Monday by University of Georgia police and booked into the Clarke County Jail at 4:05 am
Charges have been filed after an investigation into an altercation between two people when a UGA workers member reported a “loud argument” coming from a dorm room that “spilled out in the hallway,” earlier than they returned to the room.
Thomas, 20, was launched on $1,850 in bonds early Monday afternoon. He gave the police a distinct account of what occurred than she did.
“Y’all know I’m not that kind of particular person,” Thomas posted Monday in a message on his private Facebook web page. “I do know higher than that my momma taught me nicely! I’ll by no means EVER put my arms on a feminine!! Got to get away from social media.”
A 17-year outdated feminine instructed police she obtained right into a verbal argument with Thomas, who she described as her boyfriend but it surely has resolved itself. She stated that he was upset that she was following an unidentified male on Instagram, based on the report. She left the dorm after the argument and went to the gymnasium, however they continued to argue through textual content, the report stated. When she went again to the dorm, they continued arguing.
When she instructed Thomas she needed to go away, he stood in the dorm room doorway, blocking her exit and instructed her she could not go away, she instructed the police. She instructed him she needed to name her mom, however he grabbed her cellphone and Apple Watch off her wrist so she could not, based on the report.
That’s when she instructed the police the argument grew to become bodily. Thomas instructed the police it grew to become bodily when she began “choking” and hitting him and that she wouldn’t let him go away.
The report says she stated Thomas grabbed her proper arm together with his left hand, bruising her biceps the place his thumb was. She instructed the police she began scratching, kicking and hitting Thomas to get him off her.
She stated Thomas pushed her and she or he fell “face first into the mattress leaving bruises and abrasions on her shins.” When she tried to rise up, he pushed her once more, inflicting her to fall again first on the mattress, inflicting an abrasion on the facet of her left leg. Thomas instructed police he “positioned her on the mattress softly whereas she was hitting him,” and suggested her to quiet down and he went to speak to a good friend on the cellphone.
While the feminine was speaking to UGA police about the argument, she overheard Thomas telling one other officer that she had hit him. She instructed the police that Thomas instructed her to not inform anybody about the bruises he gave her.
The argument went into the hallway after Thomas left the dorm room along with her cellphone and watch and she or he adopted. When “a bunch of ladies,” requested questions on the loud altercation, they went again to the room as a result of they have been nervous the police could be known as, the report stated.
Thomas instructed the police that the girl broke a laptop computer valued at $1,200 by folding it backwards. Police didn’t observe bruising on Thomas constant together with his testimony, solely bruising on Thomas’ forearms however he stated these got here “throughout a sporting occasion.”
Thomas was considered as an vital switch to a large receiver corps that final week misplaced one of its high pass-catchers, AD Mitchell, to Texas as a switch.
Thomas stays a member of the Georgia soccer program. UGA athletics launched an announcement Monday afternoon after the arrest.
“While we’re restricted in what we will say about the incident, the report is disappointing and never reflective of the excessive requirements we’ve got for our student-athletes on and off the area,” the assertion stated. “In addition to following inside Athletic Association insurance policies, we will probably be working carefully with our administration to make sure we cooperate totally with all legislation enforcement and campus protocols.”