'Cock grabbed on street corner prior to game

By: CAROLYN CRIST

Posted: 9/11/07

They may have caged our football team, but police put one of their players behind bars.

John Horton Guerry, 20, a sophomore linebacker for the University of South Carolina, was arrested and charged with underage consumption of alcohol and open container early Saturday.

An officer of the Athens-Clarke County Police Department was on bike patrol at 2 a.m. when he saw Guerry holding a beer bottle at the corner of East Clayton and Wall streets, according to the police report.

Guerry threw the bottle in the garbage and told the officer he was 20, showing his license.

The office placed Guerry into handcuffs and took him to the Clarke County Sheriff's Office in a transport unit.

Guerry, who was not scheduled to play in Saturday's game, isn't the first Gamecock player to have a run-in with police this year. Three other South Carolina players have been arrested, including starting safety Emanuel Cook, who was arrested on a gun possession charge in August.

Raymond Harrison, USC athletics director of academics and life skills, was not available for comment Monday.