Wednesday July 16th, 2025 2:21AM

Pacman told police during arrest he could pass NFL drug test

By The Associated Press
<p>When Tennessee cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones got out of his Corvette while a SWAT team served a search warrant at his Georgia home last year, a drug investigator said the sports car smelled to "high heaven" of marijuana.</p><p>As Fayette County, Ga., officers questioned why he would smoke marijuana as an NFL player, Jones reportedly conceded he couldn't pass a drug screen for another week or two.</p><p>"Jones continued on to say that he would be ready to pass it when the NFL tests him," according to the police report of the March 23, 2006, incident.</p><p>Jones has drawn police interest for at least 10 incidents since the Titans made him their top draft pick in 2005. He now has the NFL's attention, too.</p><p>On Thursday, NFL spokesman Michael Signora confirmed Jones' behavior is being reviewed under the league's personal conduct policy.</p><p>Jones' most recent brush with police was at a Las Vegas strip club where three people were shot and one man paralyzed Feb. 19. This week, it became public that faces a felony charge from another police incident in Georgia last year, which prompted the search for drugs at the home he bought for his mother.</p><p>The Titans, waiting for Las Vegas police to conclude their investigation, again declined to comment Thursday on the latest reports in Georgia involving their best defensive player.</p><p>Attorney Manny Arora of Atlanta, who has been representing Jones, did not immediately return a message by The Associated Press.</p><p>Jones was charged with possession of marijuana after being arrested in Fayette County, just south of Atlanta. That misdemeanor charge was dismissed in January, although his mother, Deborah Jones, and a friend were convicted. The prosecutor said Thursday the friend spent some time in jail.</p><p>Capt. Mike Pruitt, head of Fayette County's drug task force, didn't find out about the dismissal until Wednesday when reports of the arrests first surfaced. The prosecutor said the charge was dismissed because no marijuana was found on or near Jones.</p><p>Pruitt said they also found no marijuana in the Corvette but the car's interior reeked of smoke. He said Jones admitted smoking in the car while driving down from Nashville.</p><p>"I don't what NFL policy is. It doesn't concern me. But I asked him why would you take your livelihood and the money you make playing in the NFL and throw it away for some stupid marijuana? Can you answer that for me? I don't understand why you would do that," Pruitt told The Associated Press on Thursday.</p><p>"He says, `We know when we're going to be tested. We know months in advance when we're going to be tested. I stop using two months ahead of time.'"</p><p>Being arrested is enough to alert the NFL to a problem and perhaps place a player in its substance abuse program. But the league's drug testing program is confidential, it's not known whether a player is in the program until discipline in the form of a suspension is announced.</p><p>The drug task force obtained the search warrant because of heavy traffic at the house and because Jones was arrested Feb. 6, 2006, in Fayetteville. An officer patrolling noticed a car parked in the road for a few minutes, then approached the car to see what they were doing.</p><p>Jones and the people with him ran into the nearby house. Police followed, and an argument turned physical. Police said Thursday Jones threw a punch at an officer before taken to the ground and handcuffed. He was charged with a felony count of obstruction and two misdemeanors of obstructing police.</p><p>Since being drafted, Jones has been arrested five times, and all but the obstruction charges in Fayetteville have been dismissed. Las Vegas police interviewed him about the triple shooting, but he was allowed to return home to Georgia.</p><p>This isn't the first time someone has worried about how much marijuana Jones is smoking. Recordings of wiretap conversations from a Nashville drug bust in April 2006 surfaced Monday, and the main target of the investigation, a convicted drug dealer, talked about Jones.</p><p>Darryl Moore, who faces charges including conspiracy and possession of cocaine and marijuana for resale, was arrested by police 90 minutes after leaving Jones' home in Nashville.</p><p>"He gotta concentrate on season ... that (expletive) drug test coming up," Moore said. "We telling him he needed 33 days before he took his (expletive) test. Dry-out, and he didn't. That's let me know right there that he ain't taking his (expletive) job serious."</p>
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