Overview
- Court and jail records show 23-year-old Jamar Goff was booked in Jefferson County Jail on Sept. 15 on charges that include second-degree assault on a police officer, attempting to elude, unlawful possession of a controlled substance, and drug paraphernalia possession.
- Police say officers found Goff shirtless and asleep near a fountain on the University of Alabama at Birmingham campus and that he told them he was waiting to buy “ice,” a slang term for methamphetamine.
- Officers allege Goff ran when they tried to detain him after discovering an outstanding warrant, and that he later struck an officer with an open-handed palm strike at a local hospital during transport.
- Court documents and reports state officers found a glass pipe and about 1.8 grams of methamphetamine on Goff, his bond was set at $37,000, and he remains in custody as of the latest reports.
- Reporting links the Sept. 15 arrest to a May 2025 detention in which Goff was accused of biting a detention officer and listed a phone number tied to Ree Drummond as a foster‑parent contact, and media outlets say Drummond has not publicly commented.