Now That's a Good Teammate

A classic police arrest was made last Saturday night in South Beach. Wizard star Gilbert Arenas and Wizards scrub Awvee Storey were arrested on charges of disobeying police. Philadelphia Eagles linebacker Dhani Jones was arrested recently in South Beach and charged with the misdemeanor of failure to obey a lawful command after he allegedly refused to stop dancing outside a South Beach club early Sunday, according to Miami Beach police. "He refused several orders to get out of the street, and he was arrested," said police spokesman Bobby Hernandez on Monday. Clearly, South Beach is a crime mecca. The Wizards arrest is especially comical. Highlights from Michael Wilbon's column in the Post today: -Arenas at first thought he was being "Punk'd" by MTV. But he wasn't; he was being arrested. "I was told it was for resisting arrest without violence," Arenas said in a phone conversation yesterday. -When I was taken in, I said, 'I don't mean to be rude, but can I talk to the officer who arrested me?' And the officer says, 'You were being nosy.' And I said, 'Are you putting that in your official police report, that I was being nosy?' And then he keeps asking me questions: " 'Do you have tattoos?' I said, 'Yes, I have three.' And then, 'What is your street name?' I laughed. Of course I laughed. My street name? What? Okay, it's Zero Hero. [Arenas wears "0" on his Wizards jersey.] 'And he says, 'Oh, everything is funny to you, huh?'" -"Anyway, there was a guy locked up in one of these three cells who said, 'Hey, Gil, if they brought you in here I'm never getting out.' And one officer said to me, "Gilbert, what are you doing in here?' And I said, 'I don't know.' I watch a lot of TV, and I know I haven't even been searched. I've still got my cellphone on me and stuff.' That's when a lady officer told me what I was being charged with." -Arenas, while he's in very good humor about it, says he won't be needing any shortcuts anymore. "I'm going to sell my condo," he said. "I'm done with the Miami scene. They can have their nice beach. They've convinced me I do not belong." - farfel