Former Atlanta Brave Otis Nixon Out on Bond

The former Atlanta Brave who was arrested last week in Cherokee County is now free on bond.

Otis Nixon, a former center fielder with the Braves, posted bond Tuesday evening around 9 p.m. to be released from the Cherokee County Adult Detention Center, Cherokee Sheriff's Office Spokesperson Lt. Jay Baker said. 

Nixon was arrested over the weekend and charged with felony possession of crack cocaine and possession of a drug-related object.

He was jailed at the detention center with a $11,880 bond. 

Nixon, who had a 66-year-old female passenger in the truck with him, was pulled over after midnight on Saturday after Cherokee County dispatchers put out a be-on-the-lookout for a possible intoxicated driver traveling in a red Dodge Ram truck northbound on Interstate 575.

An investigator with the sheriff's office pulled the truck over near the Airport Road interchange and asked Nixon to step out of the vehicle. A trooper with the Georgia State Patrol assisted with the traffic stop. 

An investigator with the Cherokee Sheriff's Office discovered a "small rock substance suspected to be crack cocaine" on the driver seat of the truck and drug paraphernalia that appeared to be a pipe in Nixon's pants pocket. 

Nixon was given an breathalyzer for alcohol, but it came back negative. He was also found not to be under the influence of crack cocaine or any other stimulants after deputies conducted field sobriety tests.

The former athlete told authorities the drugs and the pipe belonged to his son.

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