Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Fraternity brothers charged with obstruction for hiding streakers (w/report)

By on June 23, 2009

Two University students were arrested early Friday after getting into an altercation with a police officer who was chasing two naked men as they ran into the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house on Milledge Avenue.

An Athens-Clarke County officer saw a man running toward the fraternity house, followed by another, police said. The officer chased the men and ordered them to stop, according to a police report, which noted “the most noticeable feature was lack of clothing.”

According to the report, Andrew Wilson McCauley, 21, held the door for the two naked men and let it slam shut. The door has a keypad lock on it and locks as soon as it shuts, the report said. “McCauley stood at the door with a half smile and I told him to open the door. He shrugged his shoulders,” the report states.

The door was not unlocked for the officer until Edward Morrissette Bolt, 22, unlocked it, the report stated. “He stood in the way and refused to move as I again told him to move. He told me I could not come in,” the report said.

Both McCauley and Bolt were arrested and charged with obstructing a law enforcement officer for allegedly refusing to ID the streakers. McCauley was charged with battery of a law enforcement officer for allegedly grabbing the officer’s upper right arm and pulling at him, according the report.

The two naked men the officer was chasing “had disappeared into the house and would have had plenty of time to get dressed, everyone claimed to not have any idea who the two naked men were,” the report states.

If found, the two men face public indecency and obstruction charges.

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