2 IU football players arrested for not paying cab fare

Two members of the IU football team were arrested early Sunday morning in Greenwood, Ind. Senior linebacker Adam McClurg and senior offensive lineman Sean Edmundson as well as University of Indianapolis defensive back Joshua Kimbowa were charged with failure to pay after a taxi ride from Indianapolis, police said.\nAccording to a probable cause affidavit from the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office, police responded to a call Sunday morning at around 4 a.m. after the three had fled after being dropped of by a Yellow Cab taxi driver in Greenwood. The taxi driver told police that he had picked up the three men in downtown Indianapolis around the area of the nightclubs. When they arrived at the address they gave, the driver told the men they owed him $39 in cab fare. After Edmundson gave the driver $8, the men told the driver they needed to go into the house to get the remaining fare, then took off running, the affidavit said.\nThe officer then went to the address the men had given the driver. The homeowner said he had been sleeping and that the only other person in the house was his juvenile daughter who had been sleeping at the time, according to the affidavit.\nBackup arrived on the scene and began checking the surrounding neighborhood. An officer saw two men running in a wooded area near a golf course. The officer found the house of one of the men’s aunts and went up to the house. The aunt told the officer the men had just arrived at the address. The officer told the three men to come outside, and they complied. Edmundson told the officer he had paid his share and the officer informed him that $8 did not add up to 1/3 of the $39 fare, the affidavit said. Kimbowa told officers the men had fled out of fear because they did not have the money. The three men asked the officers to call Yellow Cab so they could pay the driver the rest of the money they owed.\nAll three were arrested for theft and transported to the Johnson County Law Enforcement Facility, according to the affidavit.