(8-19-24) Art Schlichter (64),who played QB for Ohio State from 1978-81, was charged with possession of drugs, a fifth-degree felony, in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas on Friday. This comes after a February 2nd incident in North Linden involving an Ohio State Highway Patrol deputy.

Former Ohio State QB Art Schlichter indicted on felony drug charge

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At around 4:22 a.m. Schlichter was pulled over by a highway patrol trooper, who reported seeing drug paraphernalia in his car. The trooper reported Schlichter gave him two crack pipes out of his pocket. After a probable cause search was conducted, small white rocks were found, which he reportedly told the trooper were “crack rocks.”

Body camera footage released by the Ohio State Highway Patrol in February showed over six minutes of the encounter.

At the time of his arrest, Schlichter was serving one year of probation for another fifth-degree felony drug charge from a June 2022 incident. That charge came when he was found unresponsive and had to be revived with Narcan at a hotel outside of Columbus. Online court records showed that if Schlichter violated his probation, he would be subject to 11 months in prison.