Off-the-court woes continued for the Georgia men’s basketball team Tuesday.

Starting shooting guard Billy Humphrey, 20, a junior from Dacula, was charged Tuesday with felony possession of a weapon on school property after a search of his East Campus Village dorm room revealed a “butterfly knife.”

He has been suspended from the team indefinitely.

Other published reports stated that marijuana was found in Humphrey’s room, but University police Lt. Lisa Boone said that was not the case. Humphrey was released at noon Wednesday after posting a $5,000 bond

According to the police report, University police met with Kathryn Hall, a student affairs specialist with the University, at 10:12 a.m. Tuesday after she called in about a possible violation of the Georgia Controlled Substance Act. Hall said a custodian found a substance that looked like marijuana while searching discarded property left behind in a study lounge in Building 1514.

In response, a search warrant was issued for Humphrey’s dorm room for possible violation of VGCSA. While serving the warrant, police discovered Matthew Christopher Hall inside the dorm room. A check of his license showed a warrant was issued for his arrest in Stone Mountain for failure to appear. He was searched, placed under arrest and taken to the Clarke jail. He was also given a barring notice for all University housing for one year. Hall is not a University student, but his Facebook profile shows him to be an Atlanta resident attending Florida State University.

No drugs were found in the dorm room.

At 12:45 p.m., after recovering the knife Tuesday, University police also barred Lawrence Asutaku from all University housing for one year for suspicion of VGCSA. Asutaku is not a University student, but his Facebook site shows him to be a resident of Atlanta. Mercer, Asutaku, Humphrey and Matthew Hall are all Facebook friends.

At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, a warrant was signed against Humphrey, and at 6:20, the warrant was served on Humphrey at the University police department. He was booked into the jail at 7:35 p.m.

“Billy was arrested for felony possession of a weapon for having a pocket knife on campus,” head coach Dennis Felton said. “I guess it was bigger than two inches, which was the limit, so he’s gone to turn himself in. And that’s it. That’s all I know.”

Felton said at practice Tuesday he was not sure how the arrest would affect Humphrey’s status for tonight’s game against Grambling State.

“I don’t know enough to make my own decision, so obviously I can’t talk about a decision since I don’t have any idea what I’m going to do,” Felton said.

“I don’t know the University policy. I don’t know the athletic department policy. I have a lot of information to gather.”

The University Firearms, Explosives and Weapons Policy prohibits on-campus possession of weapons referred to in Georgia

Code Section 16-11-127.1 – including any “knife having a blade of two or more inches.”

“Violation of this policy will result in appropriate action, including but not limited to termination, dismissal and/or criminal prosecution,” the policy states.

Humphrey, who scored 13 points in Friday’s season opener, averaged seven-and-a-half points per game last season. One of only three Bulldogs to see playing time in every game last season, he started 10 games following Mike Mercer’s knee injury and was Georgia’s second-most prolific 3-point shooter.

This incident comes less than three weeks after forward Takais Brown, last year’s leading scorer, was dismissed from the team for violating an undisclosed team policy. That came just over two weeks after Mercer, Brown and sophomore Albert Jackson were suspended for 15, nine and six games, respectively, for violations of the Athletic Association’s academic attendance policy.

“I’m always concerned about everything that goes on with the program, including what it does to our image,” Felton said.