Houston Astros outfielder Jordan Schafer was arrested in Tampa, Florida, early on Tuesday 4 October 2011 and charged with felony possession of marijuana.[1] Police said Schafer pulled up to a traffic light in a black Land Rover with the windows down next to a police car, and officers saw him smoking a marijuana cigarette.[1] After he was stopped, Schafer admitted smoking marijuana and said he had more in the vehicle, and a search turned up less than an ounce in a plastic container and a small amount inside three small marijuana peanut butter cups, according to the police report.[1] According to a Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office arrest report, Schafer was arrested early Tuesday morning in Tampa and released on a $2,000 cash bond.[1]

Felony marijuana possession in Florida carried a potential maximum five-year prison term and a $5,000 fine.[1] The Braves had made Schafer, then 22, their starting center fielder in 2009, and he had been suspended for the first 50 games of the 2008 season after baseball’s investigative unit found evidence he used human growth hormone in violation of the minor league drug program.[1] He was suspended after Major League Baseball’s new investigative unit found evidence that Schafer used human growth hormone in violation of the minor league drug program.[1]