Former Ohio State University quarterback … arrested again on drug charges – Mercer County Outlook

(08/19/24) Art Schlichter, 64, who was a quarterback for Ohio State from 1978 to 1981, was charged Friday in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas with drug possession, a fifth-degree felony, following a Feb. 2 incident in North Linden involving an Ohio State Highway Patrol trooper.

Former Ohio State University quarterback Art Schlichter has been charged with drug offenses

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At approximately 4:22 a.m., Schlichter was stopped by a patrol officer who reported seeing drug paraphernalia in his car. The patrol officer reported Schlichter gave him two crack pipes from his pocket. After a probable cause search, small white rocks were found, which he allegedly told the patrol officer were “Cracking rocks.”

Body camera footage released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol in February showed more than six minutes of the encounter.

At the time of his arrest, Schlichter was serving a year of probation for another fifth-degree drug offense from an incident in June 2022. That charge was filed when he was found unconscious and had to be resuscitated with Narcan at a hotel outside Columbus. Online court records showed that if Schlichter violates his probation, he faces 11 months in prison.