Gooden was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest with violence, and battery on a police officer, Cotter said.
"It was all pushing, shoving and kicking - that type of thing," Cotter said. "There were no weapons involved."
Contacted yesterday by telephone, Gooden's father said Dwight was sleeping and declined further comment.
Horwitz said that he spoke with Gooden yesterday and that the righthander told him that he had been handcuffed and ankle-cuffed during the incident.
"It seems to be routine for blacks, driving expensive cars, to be stopped by the police in Tampa," said Gooden's attorney, Charles Ehrlich. He also said that both he and the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People planned investigations into the incident.
He said, "What the police have charged them with, and the account in the police report, is in variance with the facts I've been told by Dwight and the others."
Horwitz quoted Gooden as saying, "I don't know what I did. They never told me what they stopped me for. I'm really in the dark about it."
Also arrested were Gary Sheffield, 18, a nephew of Gooden's; Vance Lovelace, 23, a former teammate of Gooden's at Hillsborough High School, and a 17-year-old, all of Tampa. The three were charged with battery on a police officer and resisting arrest with violence.
All except the 17-year-old were booked into the Hillsborough County Jail and released on their own recognizance. The teenager was handed over to state juvenile officers, Cotter said.
The incident began just before 11 p.m. Saturday, when an officer spotted a Mercedes-Benz and a Corvette weaving toward each other in north Tampa, Cotter said. The officer pulled over the two cars.
