Hayes Hickman, and Phil Kaplan

Knoxville News Sentinel

Detrick Mostella, who was dismissed from the University of Tennessee basketball team, has been cited to court for possession of drug paraphernalia, according to court records.

Mostella, 23, of Decatur, Ala., is due to appear Jan. 25 in Knox County General Sessions Court on two misdemeanor counts of possession of unlawful drug paraphernalia uses and activities.

The 6-foot-1 junior guard is listed in court records as Derrick Samon Mostella.

UT police officers responded to a residence inside Volunteer Hall after a report "of the odor of marijuana and loud music" on Dec. 14., 2016, according to UTPD documents related to Mostella requested by the News Sentinel on Wednesday . An incident report says the resident of the room was issued a misdemeanor citation of possession of drug paraphernalia although the name was redacted.

UT defeated Tennessee Tech at home the previous night. Mostella came off the bench and played 18 minutes but did not score on 0 of 5 shooting. Mostella played the next day after the citation and scored 11 points on 4 of 9 shooting, including two 3-pointers, in 25 minutes.

The News Sentinel received two other documents related to incidents linked to Mostella.

A UT police officer was sent to Volunteer Hall to assist with a scheduled fire drill at 7:50 p.m. on Aug. 30, 2016. During the drill, a resident assistant discovered drugs in a room. The RA brought the officer to the room, and he reported "on the coffee table in the common area of the apartment, I saw a pile of leafy substance that smelled like tobacco. Among the pile of tobacco I noticed some dried green stems that are consistent with marijuana stems."

The residents of the room were Mostella, redshirt freshman guard Lamonte Turner, senior forward Robert Hubbs III, and graduate transfer forward Lew Evans, according to the report.

No conclusion of the case was included in the report.

The other incident linked to Mostella didn't include drugs, but a firearm instead.

A UT police officer was sent to Volunteer Hall at 12:27 p.m. on Sept. 2, 2016, to investigate a report of the possibility of a student possessing a firearm. In the report, the officer was told by the hall director that a former RA reported that while visiting Mostella in his room three months ago he "pulled out a handgun and took it with him out of the room."

The officer went to Mostella's room and received no answer after knocking on the door several times, according to the report.

Less than two hours later the officer made contact with Mostella and the two agreed to meet at his room. He agreed to a search of his room by police. No firearm was found and no action was taken.

Four days later the case was closed.

On Tuesday night, team officials announced that Mostella was dismissed from the program for violation of team rules, but otherwise have not specified the reason for his dismissal.

“I’ve always been very clear about the standards that members of this program will be held to,” second-year UT coach Rick Barnes said in a school release. “Those standards are very high, and Detrick unfortunately has not lived up to them.”

In 15 games this season, Mostella was averaging a career-best 10.5 points and 3.9 rebounds per game.

He made 80 career appearances and six starts in three seasons for the Vols, connecting on 95 3-pointers.

Tennessee (8-7, 1-2 SEC) takes on South Carolina (12-3, 2-0) at Thompson-Boling Arena on Wednesday (TV: SEC Network, 6:30 p.m.).

Mostella was a four-star prospect at La Lumiere School in La Porte, Ind., and was rated by 247Sports as the nation's No. 43 overall prospect in the class of 2013. He attended Austin High School in Decatur, Ala., during his freshman through junior years before transferring to La Lumiere School.

Mostella initially signed with Oklahoma State in November 2012 prior to his senior season.

He spent the 2013-14 academic year at Notre Dame Preparatory School in Fitchburg, Mass., and was granted a release from his National Letter of Intent by Oklahoma State.

"I was young, just making mistakes, for real. I didn't really know what school was like, to be in college," Mostella told the News Sentinel in an interview in October of 2014. "I was really enjoying the recruiting situation by committing to schools. But then I finally realized I was going to have to do another year in prep school, so why not open my options back up?"

He later committed to Pittsburgh, but decommited after assistant coach Barry Rohrssen was hired by Kentucky.

Mostella signed with UT in May of 2014 to play for former coach Donnie Tyndall.

"Detrick is an explosive athlete who can make plays off the dribble and create opportunities for his teammates," Tyndall said in a school release to announce Mostella's signing. "He is another versatile, long, athletic perimeter player who fits perfectly in our system and style of play. We're very excited to add this high character young man to our Tennessee basketball family."

It took two months for the NCAA Clearinghouse to rule Mostella eligible at UT in July of 2014.

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