By Owen Boss
Staff Writer
AMHERST - A former captain of the University of Massachusetts football team faces weapons charges Thursday after police reportedly found a loaded handgun and drugs in his car.
Sean R. Smalls, 22, of Richmond, Va., pleaded innocent Thursday in Eastern Hampshire District Court to charges of carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a firearm on school grounds and possession of a firearm without an F.I.D. card.
Smalls was stopped on Infirmary Way Wednesday after a UMass police officer reportedly saw him obstruct traffic on Sunset Avenue. The officer reportedly smelled marijuana when he approached the vehicle and when a K-9 unit was called to sniff for drugs, Alexander Jardin, the only passenger, admitted to having marijuana, a scale and Adderall, a stimulant medication, in a backpack in the back seat, according to court documents.
After the bag was removed and the drugs confiscated, police reportedly noticed that Smalls was fidgeting around under the front seat and a further search of the vehicle uncovered an unregistered black semi-automatic .380 pistol with a loaded magazine.
Judge Laurie MacLeod ordered Smalls released on $200 bail and he is scheduled to reappear in court on Jan. 25.
Owen Boss can be reached at oboss@gazettenet.com.
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