A man the size of an NFL lineman who tried to elude police by sliding into a muddy “spider hole” on Thursday found out it didn’t work any better for him than it did for Saddam Hussein.

Brock Daniel White, 30, of Upper Burrell was “covered head to toe in mud” when he was arrested on drug charges from Upper Burrell, assault charges in New Kensington and for failing to appear for a June 2009 sentencing for selling illegal drugs in Vandergrift, according to Sheriff Chuck Moore.

White is scheduled to appear today in Westmoreland County Court to answer that charge first, Moore said.

Police and constables said Thursday they searched for the tall, muscular White many times at his parents’ home in Upper Burrell and at the club that his father manages in New Kensington.

“We’d go there once every few months,” said Upper Burrell police Sgt. Ken Pate.

Since June 2009, White has been spotted riding a motorcycle and driving a large SUV in the Alle-Kiski Valley.

Another time a constable got closer, but the former football star was able to run away. White still holds the Burrell High School record for yards rushing in a single game, which he set 13 years ago.

“I fired a Taser at White in the club as he ran but I missed,” Constable Brian Barbieri said in the New Kensington courtroom of District Judge Frank J. Pallone Jr., where White was arraigned yesterday.

Pallone ordered White held in the county jail without bond.

Down the spider hole

Yesterday’s search for White and others named in warrants was conducted by Pate and four sheriff’s deputies just after 9 a.m.

When authorities pounded on the door of a mobile home along Mosaic Boulevard, a woman answered to say White wasn’t there. According to Pate, she refused to allow anyone inside.

She allegedly told police that the only people inside were her boyfriend and a child and that her boyfriend was sleeping.

The authorities were certain the boyfriend wouldn’t have slept through their knocking on the metal trailer door, so they decided to wait.

“We had a hunch,” Pate said.

Within about 30 minutes, the man in the trailer came outside leading a pit bull terrier.

“The man said he knew White,” Pate said. “They were members of the same motorcycle club. But no, he wasn’t there.”

After about 10 more minutes, the man said they could go inside, according to Pate.

“In a back room we saw a huge speaker — you know the ones at a concert, maybe 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide — and we decided to move it.”

Two sheriff’s deputies were posted outside and two more were inside — all with Tasers drawn — as Pate moved the speaker.

“We saw a hole cut in the floorboard and mud under that,” Pate said. “Then we saw a shoe.”

They ordered him to climb out of the hole and he did extricate himself, but it took awhile. He was polite and cooperative with authorities.

“It was a spider hole,” Pate said, “just like the one Saddam Hussein had in Iraq.”

Brock is accused of simple assault for allegedly pushing a woman’s head into the side of a car outside a bar along Freeport Road in New Kensington on Oct. 21.

He is charged with aggravated assault and conspiracy in another case in New Kensington and with selling cocaine in Upper Burrell.

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