Grambling State University Police arrested a man earlier this month when investigating a suspicious situation during Homecoming weekend.
Matthew Strickland, 18, was charged with obstruction of justice and resisting an officer following an incident in which he resisted officers which interfered with an investigation on October 19.
GSU Police officers were conducting foot patrol in the Freshman Village on campus when they saw four men at a parked Nissa Sentra. Two were seating in the vehicle and two standing outside. They were asked if they were students, and when talking to Strickland, seated behind the steering wheel, the smell of marijuana was detected.
Strickland refused to get out of the car after told officers intended to search it based on the marijuana smell coming from inside. After repeated commands, he eventually exited the vehicle but resisted efforts to handcuff him. Strickland wrestled with officers until he could be handcuffed.
One of the men standing nearby attempted to enter the vehicle and was ordered away. By the time Strickland was handcuffed, the other seated man had exited the car and the two men who had been standing outside the car had left—apparently with the keys—and the vehicle had been locked.
Strickland was booked at the Lincoln Parish Detention Center with bail set at $10,000.
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