Pubdate: Sat 6 Feb 1999 Source: Northwest Arkansas Times (AR) Contact: http://www.nwarktimes.com/ Author: Don Michael - Times Staff Writer QB ENTERS INNOCENT PLEA Gary Russell Brashears Jr., a freshman quarterback at the University of Arkansas, pleaded innocent Friday to charges of alcohol possession. Brashears, 18, entered the plea through his attorney by phone, but two other students charged in the same incident pleaded guilty Friday morning and received fines and probation. Fayetteville Officer Jeremy Grammer stopped the black Dodge pickup Brashears was driving about 1 a.m. Jan. 15 near Timberline Avenue in west Fayetteville. A case of beer was found in the bed of the truck, and Grammer reported finding three open cans of Keystone Light in the cab. No one admitted to owning the beer, so all four students in the truck were arrested for illegal possession of alcohol. Brashears has maintained the beer was not his, and that he was simply ac ting as a designated driver for the other students. Two other students in the car, Tatum Blain Owenby, a 19-year-old freshman cornerback from Greenwood, and a female passenger pleaded guilty Friday in front of Municipal Judge Rudy Moore. Moore took the convictions under advisement, as he does with all first-time alcohol offenders, but did order them to pay a $75 fine and remain on probation for a year. Matthew Scott Summers, 19, a linebacker from Bryant, had not yet entered a plea Friday afternoon. - --- MAP posted-by: Patrick Henry