Additional details emerge about incident that led to arrest of Georgia LB Jamon Dumas-Johnson

On Tuesday, Georgia linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson was arrested on two misdemeanor charges, according to On3 and DawgsHQ’s Palmer Thombs. He was cited for reckless driving and racing on highway/streets, police said.

Dumas-Johnson was booked into Athens-Clarke County Jail at 6:35 p.m. ET on Tuesday and released less than an hour later. The police log states the event took place at 8 p.m. local time Jan. 10, just after Georgia won the national championship.

“Warrants issued 02/21/23, charges resulted from the investigation into an officer’s observation of two vehicles travelling beside each other on College Station Road in a reckless manner at high speeds that fled the area upon sight of the officer,” the police log said.

Now, additional details are emerging about the incident, reported by Marc Weiszer of the Athens Banner-Herald.

“Georgia starting inside linebacker Jamon Dumas-Johnson’s arrest Wednesday evening came after University of Georgia police saw two newer model Dodge Chargers one night last month next to each other at a traffic light off East Campus Road and Southview Drive waiting to go east onto College Station Road in Athens,” wrote Weiszer.

According to a UGA police officer’s account of the incident in the report released to the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, “When the traffic light turned green, both vehicles spun their tires and began racing East down College Station Road at a high rate of speed,” per Weiszer.

“The officer turned on his lights and siren to make a traffic stop, but was unable to catch them even after accelerating to ‘approximately 75 miles per hour.’ The incident occurred at about 8 p.m. on Jan. 10, the day after Georgia returned from its national championship win over TCU in Inglewood, Calif.”

Moreover, Athens-Clarke County Municpal Judge Ryan Hope signed the warrants Wednesday afternoon, and Dumas-Johnson turned himself in after being informed by the police, per Weiszer. He was released less than an hour afterwards.

According to Weiszer, the vehicles were caught racing on the UGA Campus Safety Camera System.

Jamon Dumas-Johnson just wrapped up his sophomore season with Georgia. He had 70 tackles, 9.0 tackles for loss and 4.0 sacks to help the Bulldogs to their second straight national title.

On3’s Nick Schultz contributed to this article.