Two Arkansas Razorbacks football players were arrested after they were allegedly involved in an altercation with cops

11/7/2022

Two Arkansas Razorbacks football players, Anthony Brown and Myles Slusher, were arrested after they were allegedly involved in an altercation with cops just hours after losing their Homecoming game.

Arkansas football players Myles Slusher and Anthony Brown were arrested by Fayetteville Police for disorderly conduct.

According to the Fayetteville Police Department preliminary reports, Brown was among a group of individuals standing in the street around 336 N. West Ave., around 2 a.m. in the restaurant and bar district just off Dickson St.

An officer on foot patrol noted he told Brown, 19, to get out of the street and he initially complied. The officer went on to report he continued to move more of the crowd out of the roadway before finding Brown “intentionally standing in the roadway a second time.”

The officer stated he grabbed the sleeve on Brown’s right arm and walked him to the sidewalk, where Brown pushed him away.

“Brown was taken to the ground and taken into custody,” according to the report. “Brown engaged in fighting behavior, congregated with two or more other people in a public place refusing to comply with a lawful order to disperse, and obstructed vehicular traffic in a public place.”

In a separate arrest report, a second officer, who was also trying to disperse the crowd, noted the commotion going on with Brown and witnessed “another male, later identified as Myles Slusher grabbed Officer [J.] Barnett and attempted to pull him away from Brown. Other officers began attempting to separate Slusher from the altercation.”

The report on Slusher, 20, stated he was asked multiple times for his name and refused to provide the information. The arresting officer said Slusher did provide his name and date of birth as a transport unit arrived on the scene, according to the report.

In a statement through a team spokesman, Arkansas coach Sam Pittman said Sunday he was aware of the incident.