Jimmy Johns throws it all away

Genesis says it best about our friend Jimmy Johns, headed for...


This type of prison.


Jimmy Johns got busted this morning for selling cocaine. Cocaine! Read the rest here.

TUSCALOOSA | A once-promising University of Alabama football player spent Tuesday behind bars facing serious drug charges.

UA Coach Nick Saban dismissed senior linebacker Jimmy Johns very shortly after narcotics investigators charged him with selling cocaine.

Johns, 21, allegedly sold powdered cocaine to undercover officers five times.

Johns had been selling cocaine to UA students, said Capt. Jeff Snyder, commander of the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force. It only took undercover officers about a week and a half to gain his trust and make the purchases, he said.

“We were kind of surprised that we were able to buy the cocaine as quickly and easily as we did,” Snyder said. “And I’m surprised that we didn’t hear that he was selling it before we did.”

Although he is well known around campus, and wasn’t reluctant to sell drugs to new customers, Snyder said, Johns didn’t want his UA teammates to know.

“He did the best he could to ensure that none of them knew,” he said. “We believe his source was an individual outside the University community.”

Investigators with the drug task force found between 9 and 11 grams of cocaine at Johns’ home in the 2100 block of 11 Street East, Snyder said.

Johns had been working out at the UA Athletic Complex early Tuesday and had stopped to get gas when officers made the arrest. He accompanied them back to his house where they executed the search warrant and found more cocaine and eight or nine ecstasy pills.

Johns was charged with five counts of distribution of a controlled substance and one count of possession of a controlled substance.

If he is found guilty, Johns could face to 2 to 20 years in prison and be fined up to $30,000 for each of the five distribution charges. He could face one to 10 years and a $15,000 fine if he is found guilty of the possession charge.

Now Alabama's linebacking corps is thinner than a hobo's wallet. Way to go Jimmy! A guy who was once a very promising athlete, a former Mr. Football in the state of Mississippi at Brookhaven (up the road from where I worked in McComb). Now what could've been a promising life is now ruined for the want of a few dollars of ill-gotten gains. Unfortunate.