Former Atlanta Falcons running back Jamal Anderson was arrested and booked into an Atlanta-area jail late Saturday night on a felony possession-of-cocaine charge and possession-of-marijuana charge, a misdemeanor.
Anderson, an NFL analyst for ESPN's First Take this past season, was booked into the Fulton County jail in Georgia and denied bond.
His first hearing was set for Monday morning, the Fulton County sheriff's office said Sunday.
According to a police spokesman, a nightclub patron at the Peachtree Tavern alerted an off-duty police officer who was working security to possible drug use in the club's restroom, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.
"The patron had heard what he thought was sniffing from inside the stall and told the off-duty officer," police spokesman Otis Redmond said, according to the newspaper. "The officer went into the restroom, heard the same sniffing and peered over the stall door. He saw Jamal Anderson and Mark Hudson sniffing two lines of powdered cocaine off the back of the toilet."
Hudson, 20, was also arrested at the bar in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, the report said.
Police found a 1-inch square bag of cocaine and a suspected marijuana cigarette in Anderson's pocket, according to the paper. Police said both men were in possession of cocaine, according to other local reports.
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