Bengals 2006 rap sheet

Reggie McNeal becomes the seventh Bengals player (at the time of arrest) to be arrested this calendar year. He was arrested early Sunday and charged with resisting arrest outside a Houston nightclub.

The year in review:

Jan. 28 – Police in Orlando, Fla., arrest wide receiver Chris Henry and charge him with possession of a concealed firearm, improper exhibition of a firearm and aggravated assault with a firearm.

April 29 – Bengals select defensive end Frostee Rucker from Southern Cal in third round of NFL draft. Rucker has history sexual misconduct charges.

April 30 – In the fifth round, the Bengals take Florida State linebacker A.J. Nicholson, whose stock dropped after he was dismissed before the Orange Bowl for alleged sexual misconduct in his hotel room.

June 3 – An Ohio Highway Patrol officer arrests Henry for DUI in Union Township, Clermont County.

Nicholson surrenders to police in Tallahassee, Fla., where he is charged with burglary and grand theft (both felonies) and vandalism (a misdemeanor) for allegedly breaking into the apartment of a former Florida State teammate in mid-May and stealing $1,700 in electronics.

June 14 – Henry turns himself into police in Covington, Ky., and is arrested for providing alcohol to three under-aged females in a Covington hotel room. It is his third arrest in less than seven months. He would serve a two-game NFL suspension for violation of its personal conduct policy.

June 21 – Los Angeles City attorney’s office charges Rucker with two counts of vandalism and two counts of spousal battery, stemming from an August 2005 incident with a now ex-girlfriend.

July 22 – Defensive tackle Matthias Askew is arrested after being subdued with a Taser by Cincinnati Police in South Cumminsville. He was held for more than two hours at the Hamilton County Justice Center after being charged with obstruction of police business, resisting arrest and two parking violations. Askew was later released from the roster for on-field performance issues.

Aug. 5 – An officer with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources stops offensive guard Eric Steinbach’s vessel for speeding in the idle-only speed zone between the Interstate 75 and Interstate 471 bridges, detects the odor of alcohol, administers field sobriety tests, which Steinbach allegedly fails, and arrests him.

Sept. 25 – Linebacker Odell Thurman, already serving a four-game suspension for violating the league’s substance abuse policy, is stopped at an East End DUI checkpoint and charged with DUI. He was driving McNeal’s vehicle, and McNeal and Henry were passengers. Thurman is then suspended until training camp 2007 because it is his third violation of the policy.