South Carolina basketball player Rakym Felder arrested on multiple charges

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Rakym Felder, a freshman guard on the South Carolina basketball team, has been arrested on charges of simple assault and resisting arrest.

According to Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center's website, bond for each of the charges was set at $1,087.50.

According to a media relations contact in the athletics department, South Carolina basketball coach Frank Martin is "aware of the arrest and is continuing to gather information."

Athletic department policy requires that Felder be suspended immediately.

Police also charged Felder with three additional charges: disorderly conduct, pedestrian on controlled access highway and use of another's or altered license or identification card. Those charges were listed as personal recognizance bonds.

A 3-star recruit out of Abraham Lincoln High School in Brooklyn, N.Y., Felder averaged 16 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds during his senior season.

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South Carolina men's basketball freshman Rakym Felder was in jail Sunday night after being arrested and charged with multiple crimes.

Felder was being held at Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center on six charges. He was booked for:

▪  Disorderly/public disorderly conduct

▪  Assault/simple assault and battery

▪  City level – resisting arrest

▪  City level – failure to stop on police command

▪  Traffic/pedestrian on controlled access highway

▪  Traffic/use of another's or altered license or identification card

USC athletic department policy states that any student-athlete who is arrested is automatically suspended from all team activities until the matter is resolved. A team spokesperson said that coach Frank Martin is aware of the arrest and is continuing to gather information.

Felder, a 5-foot-10 guard from Brooklyn who played his freshman year of high-school ball in Indian Land...

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Gamecocks had a mass of attrition during the offseason after six players were arrested in March.

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Columbia Police Department finally releases arrest report for Rakym Felder

"The listed subject engaged an unknown person in physical combat, using personal weapons. When he left the sidewalk at the incident location and entered the roadway unlawfully, sucker punching the unsuspecting bystander, causing him to fall to the ground and lose consciousness.

"I attempted to apprehend the listed subject, at which time he began to flee on foot. Still in th roadway, ignoring several verbal commands to stop, the subject was apprehended when he ran into a fenced in parking lot."

The report also states that Felder was apprehended "with the aid the X26 taser, which was used to gain compliance ... he was transported to 700 Harden Street, where he began to resist, kicking and striking at officers attempting to place the listed subject into the transport van.

"The second listed victim, a (Columbia Police Department) officer, was assaulted during the listed subject's attempted resisting arrest. The subject was eventually secured with a seat belt inside the transport van and was taken to (jail)."