Two Packers Receivers Charged

January 11, 2000 / 5:15 PM EST / CBS/AP

Green Bay Packers receivers Antonio Freeman and Charles Jordan on Tuesday each were charged with misdemeanor obstruction for allegedly lying to police about their roles in a traffic accident, prosecutors said.

The obstruction charge carries a maximum penalty of 9 months in jail and a $10,000 fine, authorities said.

"These are the only appropriate charges based on all of the evidence," Brown County District Attorney John Zakowski said Tuesday. "If you lie to police, there are going to be consequences and these are going to be the consequences in this case."

Freeman's telephone number is not published, and no listing for a Charles Jordan could be found in the Green Bay area Tuesday. The Packers did not immediately respond to a message left at their offices by The Associated Press Tuesday.

The two receivers were in separate vehicles the night of Dec. 22 when the vehicle Freeman was driving went over a curb and struck a light pole in the driveway of an Allouez restaurant, the Brown County Sheriff's Department said.

Freeman's passenger, 22-year-old Heather Molloy, of Great Falls, Mont., suffered a head injury, but has since been released from St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay.

Freeman told officers he was a passenger in the other vehicle, authorities said. Brown County sheriff's deputies arrested Jordan on a charge of causing injury by operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

A witness later called authorities and told them Freeman had been in the vehicle that crashed, authorities said. Freemen then admitted he was driving the vehicle and that Jordan was a passenger in the other car, authorities said.