LSU receiver Doucet arrested after nightclub altercation
By PATRICK COURREGES
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Acadiana bureau
LAFAYETTE -- Early Doucet III, a freshman wideout for the LSU football team, was arrested by City Police early Sunday morning outside a Lafayette nightclub.
Doucet, 19, of St. Martinville, was charged with remaining after forbidden and resisting an officer after an incident alleged to have happened shortly after 12:30 a.m. at the Nite Town bar.
Doucet, booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center, bonded out on $250 bail for each of the two charges.
LSU coach Les Miles could not be reached for comment. Sports information director Michael Bonnette said Miles was moving his family to Baton Rouge from Oklahoma late Monday, loading a plane when Bonnette called.
"Until he has an opportunity to speak with Early, he really doesn't have anything to say," Bonnette said. "He said he wants to talk to Early, and then he'll have something to say."
Before signing with LSU, Doucet was an all-state player at St. Martinville High School.
Monday, Lafayette Police Cpl. Mark Francis said officers were called in early Sunday for a disturbance at the nightclub.
A friend of Doucet's had been told to leave the club, and Doucet allegedly began yelling at club bouncers and refusing to leave the bar, Francis said.
He said Doucet was allegedly blocking the exit to the bar, and bar management called police in to take a hand in the matter.
By the time police arrived, Francis said, Doucet was allegedly outside the club, but was still at the entrance yelling at bouncers and refusing to leave the property.
Francis said Doucet was also combative with police and initially refused to comply with orders to leave.
"He just refused to leave and got into a verbal exchange with police," Francis said.
Francis said Doucet did not resist to the point of endangering officers, but was simply refusing to cooperate.
Doucet played in 10 of LSU's 12 games in the 2004 season. He ranked fifth on the team in passes caught (18) and tied with Xavier Carter for fourth in touchdown catches (2).
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