In this photo taken and released Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006 by Franklin County Corrections Cente in Columbus, Ohio, a booking mug shot of Maurice Clarett is shown. Clarett was arrested early Wednesday after a highway chase that ended with police using Mace on the former Ohio State running back and finding four loaded guns in his sport utility vehicle, a police spokesman said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — It's becoming a familiar sight: Maurice Clarett, looking haggard and humbled, shuffling into an Ohio courtroom.

While the scene is the same, the charges against the fallen former Ohio State star running back are growing ever more serious.

Clarett is scheduled to appear before a judge Thursday to face arraignment on a felony charge of carrying a concealed weapon — an accusation that only begins to describe the latest chapter in his bizarre saga.

It began when police noticed a sport utility vehicle driving erratically in the early morning hours Wednesday. A highway chase ensued, then ended when police spiked Clarett's tires, sending his vehicle limping into a restaurant parking lot.

Officers said they could not easily subdue him because the bulletproof vest he was wearing thwarted their stun guns. It took several police using pepper spray to get the 6-foot, 245-pounder into handcuffs.

He continued to struggle even as he was taken away, kicking at the doors of the transport vehicle.

Officers discovered an arsenal in Clarett's vehicle that included three semiautomatic handguns and an AK-47-type assault rifle in the front seat — all loaded.

But Clarett's latest run-in with the law took perhaps its most troubling turn hours later, when prosecutors asked a judge to keep him in jail and revoke his bond on an earlier robbery charge.

Their reasons: The fact he was carting all those guns around — and only a few blocks from the home of a woman who was set to testify against him next week in an alleged robbery, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O'Brien said.

"We don't have any idea why he had them or what, if anything, he was going to do with them," Sgt. Michael Woods said. "But if you've got four guns in your car, you're up to no good."

The judge raised the bond to $1.1 million. But Clarett's attorney, Nick Mango, said it was unlikely Clarett could post it, meaning he would stay in jail for the duration of his trial, which starts Monday.

Earlier this year, he was charged with robbery and carrying a concealed weapon after authorities say he was identified as the person who flashed a gun and robbed two people of a cell phone behind a Columbus lounge early on New Year's morning.