EX-UF PROFESSOR SWUNG BOTTLE AT POLICE, GPD SAYS

A retired University of Florida professor is facing aggravated assault
and drug-related charges after police allege he threatened officers
while using crack cocaine Thursday night.

Gainesville Police arrested Douglas Bertram Bates, 55, after he
threatened them with a beer bottle outside his home on NW 31st Terrace
at about 8:30 p.m.

Officers Summer Hallett and Wade Priester came to the house after
police received a report of a disturbance at the home. After knocking
at the door, police said Bates began yelling obscenities and told
them, "You better shoot straight."

When Bates came out of the house, officers said he had a glass beer
bottle and began swinging it at them.

"I'm going to crack you in the head with this," police reported Bates
said.

Bates went back into his house again, then came out and appeared to be
smoking crack cocaine. Officers were able to grab Bates and arrested
him.

Inside the house, police found pieces of crack cocaine, estimated at
less than one gram with a value of $100, and drug paraphernalia.

Bates was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, possession of
a controlled substance, possession and use of drug paraphernalia and
resisting an officer without violence. He was being held at the
Alachua County jail Friday on at $26,000 bond.

Bates started at UF in 1983 and retired as a professor with the animal
sciences department at the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences
in 2000, said university spokesman Steve Orlando.