Two more Georgia players arrested on battery charge

By: Staff reports

Posted: 7/1/08

Two more Georgia football players find themselves in trouble with the law.

Georgia offensive linemen Trinton Sturdivant and Justin Anderson were arrested and charged with misdemeanor simple battery Monday night according to the Athens Clarke County Jail booking report.

The charges were a result of a female alleging individuals unknown to her in the breezeway of East Campus Village "touched her person without her consent" on June 27 according to the University Police incident report.

Two affidavits filed with the Athens Clarke County Court stated the two "did intentionally make physical contact of an insulting nature with (the alleged victim), who he does not know, when he approached her and touched her stomach."

Sturdivant, 19, was booked at 9:56 p.m. and released at 10:56 p.m. Anderson, 20, was booked at 9:49 p.m. and released at 11:07 p.m. Both were released on a $1,500 bond.

This marks the fifth and sixth arrest of a Georgia football player since the start of the offseason. Michael Lemon, a defensive end, is a suspect in a battery incident that sent a man to the hospital during the weekend.

Football head coach Mark Richt is out of town and unavailable to comment.