just cause i once interviewed this guy...

and because he's an ex-niner.

MESA, Ariz. - Arizona Rattlers coach Todd Shell was arrested early Tuesday and admitted he had been snorting cocaine, police said.

The 43-year-old Shell, a former BYU linebacker who helped the San Francisco 49ers win two Super Bowls in the early 1980s, was spotted about 1 a.m. by an officer doing a routine check behind a strip of businesses in Mesa.

“(Shell) originally said he owned the business, then said he had stopped behind the business to do the cocaine,” Mesa police Detective Tim Gaffney said.

During questioning, Shell looked off toward a tree, Gaffney said.

“He said there was a man in the tree wearing camouflage,” Gaffney said.

Police searched the area and found no one.