Post by ATLinsider on Aug 19, 2006 12:41:18 GMT -3
Former local news anchor Warren Savage was arrested Thursday night on charges of marijuana possession and giving police a false name or information, police said.
According to Gwinnett County police spokesman Cpl. Darren Moloney, police made the arrest just after 8 p.m. in response to a domestic disturbance call at the Best Western Peachtree Corners in the Norcross area. Savage was charged with marijuana possession of less than 1 ounce.
According to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department Web site, bond was set at $1,755. As of late Friday afternoon, the jail said that Savage, 42, had yet to make bail.
Savage worked at WSB for 10 years, but abruptly left his job as the morning co-anchor last September. The morning of Sept. 13, Savage failed to show up rather than give the station notice to find a replacement.
Later in the day, according to a previous report in Journal-Constitution writer Rodney Ho's radio blog, he came to collect his belongings and sent a farewell e-mail to staff in which he wrote, "A rapper once said, 'before I sell out, I get the hell out.' Since I'm more a musician than a rapper, I prefer to take a cue from the late, great Miles Davis, 'If you don't feel it, don't play it.' "
In a later interview with the Journal-Constitution, Savage said he was having difficulty waking up at 2:30 a.m. to do the show.
"It got to the point my heart wasn't in it," he said. "I was just going through the motions."
WSB news director Marian Pittman declined to comment Friday.
According to Gwinnett County police spokesman Cpl. Darren Moloney, police made the arrest just after 8 p.m. in response to a domestic disturbance call at the Best Western Peachtree Corners in the Norcross area. Savage was charged with marijuana possession of less than 1 ounce.
According to the Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department Web site, bond was set at $1,755. As of late Friday afternoon, the jail said that Savage, 42, had yet to make bail.
Savage worked at WSB for 10 years, but abruptly left his job as the morning co-anchor last September. The morning of Sept. 13, Savage failed to show up rather than give the station notice to find a replacement.
Later in the day, according to a previous report in Journal-Constitution writer Rodney Ho's radio blog, he came to collect his belongings and sent a farewell e-mail to staff in which he wrote, "A rapper once said, 'before I sell out, I get the hell out.' Since I'm more a musician than a rapper, I prefer to take a cue from the late, great Miles Davis, 'If you don't feel it, don't play it.' "
In a later interview with the Journal-Constitution, Savage said he was having difficulty waking up at 2:30 a.m. to do the show.
"It got to the point my heart wasn't in it," he said. "I was just going through the motions."
WSB news director Marian Pittman declined to comment Friday.