DOLPHINS: [Miami Dolphins' Ronnie Brown is arrested forDUI - Miami Dolphins - MiamiHerald.com]

[Rick]

Could be that he was cited and released thus he would be in any booking log.

"Salas, Randy" <Randy.Salas at startribune.com> wrote:

>Well, the original item was a reported article by Jeff Darlington, who is quite good. It seems unlikely that he's wrong. But it's weird that his story cites unnamed sources -- although it did note that public records wouldn't be updated for a few days because of the weekend. But it's weird that another reporter, who's also very good, couldn't confirm anything -- plus Danny's note that nothing has been said in the Atlanta area.
>
>But the original article also made it sound as if Ronnie was embarrassed by the incident and that the Dolphins were said to be disappointed but not panicked. All of that had to come from somewhere.
>
>
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>WHAT!@%&#!
>
>Are you implying a story on the internet *MIGHT* be false or inaccurate?
>
>Only thing is, Ronnie hasn't denied the story... has he?
>
>Michael
>
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>From: Salas, Randy Randy.Salas at startribune.com
>Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:56:58 -0500
>To: dolphins-disc at phins.com
>Subject: Re: DOLPHINS: [Miami Dolphins' Ronnie Brown is arrested
>forDUI  -       Miami Dolphins - MiamiHerald.com]
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>
>Danny, you might have hit on something. From the Sun Sentinel blog (Mike
>Berardino):
>
>(UPDATE: 12:18 p.m. A comprehensive phone and online check by the Sun
>Sentinel of inmate records in 11 surrounding counties near Cartersville -
>Bartow, Fulton, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Clarke, Cobb, Clayton, Cherokee, Floyd,
>Douglas and Paulding - as well as the City of Atlanta and Cartersville
>itself has still turned up no record of a Ronnie Brown being arrested this
>weekend or any other time.
>That doesn't mean the report isn't true, but it does mean we need to get
>confirmation of this and/or see the arrest report for ourselves before
>jumping to conclusions.
>"I've been researching this, and we have made no arrests of Ronnie Brown,"
>Captain Frank Cline of the Cartersville Police Department told me this
>morning. "I've checked with everybody, and nobody in Bartow County has had
>any contact with Ronnie Brown."
>Captain Cline agreed that any jurisdiction that may have arrested an NFL
>star of Brown's caliber should have made a public announcement by now, more
>than 48 hours after the alleged arrest. He sounded as though he doubted the
>veracity of the report, which cited two unnamed sources and did not name
>the location of the arrest or quote from the arrest report.
>"I'm totally flabbergasted by it," said Cline, who has known Brown and
>followed his career for 15 years, dating to the Dolphin's days in middle
>school. "This is a guy who pulled himself up out of a really bad situation,
>who lived with his coaches during high school to get away from family that
>did that kind of stuff. He's worked so hard to get so far. He doesn't need
>that kind of mark on him for any reason.")
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