Chiefs’ Collins involved in disturbance

? In a third embarrassing episode involving Kansas City Chiefs players this week, authorities in Minnesota said they quelled a disturbance involving backup quarterback Todd Collins.

No charges were filed after the disturbance early Sunday at the Freight House in Stillwater, Minn., near the Chiefs’ River Falls training camp. But according to police reports, a woman claimed she was injured during the melee.

Earlier, kicker Lawrence Tynes was charged with breaking a bouncer’s nose in a bar fight in River Falls, and defensive tackle Junior Siavii and safety Greg Wesley were arrested after what was reported as a drunken confrontation with police in a Minneapolis hotel.

Carl Peterson, the Chiefs’ president and general manager, told reporters Thursday that starting quarterback Trent Green had helped to calm the situation involving Collins.

“Because of his efforts, a situation which could have been pretty volatile was not. There were no charges filed, no arrests,” Peterson said.

The police report said Collins became threatening and uncooperative after police arrived and calmed down only after he was threatened with a Taser.

The police report said Collins and Green “were causing a problem inside the establishment : and Collins had climbed up onto a speaker’s box near the stage and refused to get down.”

The report said John Bonse, a restaurant security officer, tried to remove Collins from the box. It said Collins struck Bonse “in the head area, at which point Bonse and other Freight House security staff took Collins to the ground.”

The report said Bonse had indicated he would file charges, but decided not to after speaking with Green.

A woman contacted authorities the next night and said she had been injured during the altercation between Bonse and Collins. Melissa Kissling told police she was dancing on the stage area and was slammed into a metal railing by either Collins, Bonse or both.

Peterson said Green was a peacemaker.

“The police were there and they were very pleased to have Trent there, and the incident is over with,” Peterson said.

Coach Dick Vermeil defended Collins after Thursday afternoon’s practice.

“He didn’t throw a punch. He’s the most intelligent guy on this football team,” Vermeil said. “He knows what he can and cannot do. He did not throw a punch. Five or six other guys did, though.”

Tynes was charged Wednesday with breaking a bouncer’s nose in a bar fight, a felony. Siavii and Wesley were each charged with one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct, and Siavii also is charged with a misdemeanor count of fifth-degree assault.

Siavii’s attorney entered a not-guilty plea for him Wednesday and requested a jury trial. Wesley’s court date is set for today.

“I would hope that people in Kansas City particularly never question the integrity of this guy right here (Green). What he’s done on the field and off the field, more important, and his family speak volumes about the integrity of Trent Green,” Peterson said.

The other matters, he said, “are in the hands of legal people.”

“I think you know it’s our longtime policy with the Kansas City Chiefs that if there are legal issues, we are not going to make a comment until the due process has taken its course,” Peterson said. “At that time, we will.”