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Britt allegedly crushed blunt to hide from police, charged with tampering with evidence

  
Published June 9, 2011 11:39 AM
Kenny Britt

Tennessee Titans wide receiver Kenny Britt leaves the New Jersey Sate Superior Court in Hudson County after a hearing, Tuesday, April 19, 2011 in Jersey City, N.J. Britt is charged with eluding an officer, hindering apprehension and obstructing governmental function. He was arrested last week in his hometown of Bayonne after police said he drove his Porsche at 71 mph in a 55-mph zone and then left the scene. Britt appeared briefly, but entered no plea. The judge referred the case to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

AP

The reasons behind Kenny Britt’s arrest on Wednesday are becoming more clear.

Jim Wyatt of the Nashville Tennessean reports Britt allegedly “crushed a cigar containing marijuana” to hide it from the narcotics officers that approached him. That explains why officers approached him in the first place, before he allegedly resisted arrest.

Wyatt writes that Britt was charged with tampering with evidence, and obstructing government functions in addition to resisting arrest. Police did not find drugs on Britt; they just suspected them.

Britt pleaded guilty this week to charges that stemmed from an April incident where he sped away from officers, then parked his car and walked away from the vehicle.

Britt is scheduled to appear in the Central Judicial Processing Court in New Jersey at 1:00 p.m. on June 16.