The defensive tackle was pulled over for speeding when officers found ‘too much marijuana,’ according to officers heard in the video.
News that defensive tackle Antwaun Woods was arrested in Frisco while the team prepped to play the Bears was a disappointment to Cowboys fans. Now, police body camera footage has been released showing Woods’s arrest.
The 26-year-old was stopped December 3 after being clocked doing 77 mph in a 60-mph zone. Woods was charged with possession of between two and four ounces of marijuana as well as tampering with evidence after he had apparently attempted to dispose of some of the weed by stuffing it into an open water bottle during the traffic stop.
On Tuesday morning, TMZ shared video of the arrest taken via an officer’s body camera.
In the two-minute clip, the officer can be heard explaining to Woods, “All right, so listen. You’ve got too much marijuana, okay? So just place your hands behind your back; you’ll be placed under arrest.”
Woods asks to make a phone call and is informed that he’ll have to wait until he is brought to jail. Later in the video, the lineman in his second year with Dallas appears to plead his case with the arresting officer as he is led to the back seat of a police cruiser.
“C’mon, bro. Are you serious?” Woods asks.
“I have no choice,” the officer responds. “I have no option. You’ve got a lot of marijuana. I can’t do anything about that.”
According to TMZ, police found “two glass Mason jars and a small gold cylinder full of weed in his 2016 Cadillac Escalade,” plus other pieces of drug paraphernalia.
Woods had been battling a knee injury and had already been ruled out of the team’s Week 14 away game. He had been scheduled to travel to Chicago the next day with his teammates until news of the arrest broke. Coach Jason Garrett informed Woods that he would remain behind.
Before being placed in the police vehicle, Woods again requests to “please make one call.”
Again, he is denied. “We can’t, until we get to jail. It’s policy.”
“I know somebody that…” Woods starts to say before trailing off. The 6-foot-1, 310-pounder has a hard time squeezing into the backseat just before the video of the incident ends.
“I just left my wife and kids at the house, bro,” Woods says finally, asking the officer to call them.
Woods’s possession charge is considered a misdemeanor, per TMZ. The tampering charge, however, is a third-degree felony.
