New details emerge in Alabama basketball star Aden Holloways drug arrest

What prosecutors deemed as “drug transactions” were found on Alabama basketball star Aden Holloway’s phone after his arrest Monday on a felony drug charge, according to court documents and various reports. His attorney, though, told ESPN that police did not have the right to search Holloway’s home.A star junior guard and the team’s second-leading scorer, Holloway was arrested in the days leading up to the men’s NCAA Tournament after police found 2.1 pounds of marijuana in his apartment, leading to charges of first-degree possession and also failing to affix a tax stamp.Holloway posted bail and was released from Tuscaloosa County jail, but is not with the Crimson Tide, who knocked off Hofstra in the first round Friday.According to court documents viewed by ESPN, an officer with the West Alabama Narcotics Task Force found $400 in the pocket of a jacket owned by Holloway in the closet of his apartment.

Holloway told the officer he uses marijuana for personal use and had obtained it from out of state.The money was then seized “due to seeing drug transactions on Holloway’s phone, with people texting that they were going to get up with him after the season,” prosecutors said in the complaint, according to ESPN.“Holloway had smaller denominations in his possession, which is indicative of narcotic sales.

The marijuana was in separate packaging, from plastic bags to prepackaged marijuana to vacuum-sealed bags.”Before entering the apartment, police said they had received “complaints” — without specifying the nature or sources — which prompted a search of Holloway’s trash, where they found what they said was marijuana and marijuana paraphernalia.In one trash bag, according to court documents, was “loose marijuana stuck to a cat food container and a partially smoked marijuana blunt.”Jason Neff, Holloway’s attorney, told ESPN that by conducting this “trash pull,” which they used as probable cause to search his apartment, police viol...