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are you serious? where and when did this happen?
for an alleged gunpiont robbery of two men.
are you serious? where and when did this happen?
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Maurice Clarett was wanted by police on Sunday after he was accused of using a gun to rob two people in an alley behind a bar.
The troubled former Ohio State running back fled when the bar owner or manager, who knew Clarett and the victims, came into the alley and identified him shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday.
According to police, the 22-year-old Clarett left the scene in a white sport utility vehicle with two other men and took only a cell phone from his alleged victims, who weren't injured. He was wanted on two counts of su ion of aggravated robbery.
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said he was informed of the incident on his way to the Fiesta Bowl news conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. Clarett helped the Buckeyes win the national championship in 2002 but has found only hard times since.
"Obviously, my reaction to that is it's sad," Tressel said, "because, as I said the last few times people have brought up the subject, my hope would be that he would have an opportunity to go over to NFL Europe and make a comeback.
"I hope it's not true, but beyond that, I don't know much, but my reaction is, I was sad."
Clarett sat out the 2003 season after he was charged with misdemeanor falsification for filing a police report claiming that more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment was stolen from a car he borrowed from a local dealership. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Ohio State suspended Clarett for misleading investigators, and for receiving special benefits worth thousands of dollars from a family friend.
He later began an unsuccessful legal fight that went to the U.S. Supreme Court to be allowed in the NFL early. Clarett was chosen by the Denver Broncos in last year's draft, but the team cut him in August.
Tressel said he had spoken with Clarett "three or four times in the last six weeks."
"It's been along the lines of hoping he would have a chance to get things together and make a run at things with NFL Europe," the coach said.
Clarett would have been a senior on this year's Ohio State team, which meets Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl on Monday.
"It's real troubling," Tressel said of Clarett's fall. "Not just with youngsters that it becomes newsworthy, but with any kids who don't go the direction you know they're capable of or hope for them. It's one of the tough things when you compete. Sometimes things work out and you're successful and sometimes it doesn't. That doesn't have you back off from competing and teaching and trying to help people."
So he stole a cell phone?
yeah thats what i was thinking. what an idiot.
very true... but i think that was established long ago.
The sad thing is, dude could have won at least one Heisman...Think of how powerful the eyes would have been with him for a Soph and Jr yr...WOW! Now, he is relegated to an inmate number in the great state of Ohio...
Rob TWO people at a convenience store...
"BUCKEYE!"
Good thing my Broncos released him.
That guy is always wanted by the police for something
He messed up his life once he tried to get into the NFL after his freshman year at Ohio State which they won the Championship. What an idiot! Yet he was probably already in trouble with cops before that....
Dude would have OWNED Heismans if he had not been the ONE DEE TEN TEE after his FROSH yr. The underclassman of the Lawrence Phillips School of Stupidity.
That guy is always wanted by the police for something
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2278011
As police continued to search for Maurice Clarett, a man who told police he was robbed in an alley behind a bar early Sunday says he doesn't know if it was the former Denver Broncos running back dressed in black who told him to empty his pockets.
Lucas Nyarko, 28, told The Columbus Dispatch that he hopes it was just someone who looked like the 22-year-old, who helped Ohio State win college football's national championship in 2002.
Nyarko told police he couldn't identify Clarett as the man who robbed him and his friend, The Dispatch reported.
But police continued searching for Clarett, who was accused of using a gun to rob Nyarko and a friend shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday. Nyarko said his friend identified Clarett after police showed her photographs, and police said the bar owner, who came outside during the robbery, knew Clarett.
Detectives are following up on tips on possible locations, said Sgt. Michael Woods, a police spokesman.
"But right now, none of those have proved of value," Woods said.
According to police, Clarett left in a white sport utility vehicle with two other men and took only a cell phone from his alleged victims, who were not injured. He was wanted on two counts of aggravated robbery.
Nyarko said he and his friend were approached by a man dressed in black, who told them he needed something. Nyarko said the man pulled up his shirt and showed them a gun tucked in his pants. The man moved the gun to the front of his waistband and told them to empty their pockets.
Nyarko said after he handed the man his cell phone, a woman came out of the bar and yelled, "Maurice!" in greeting to the man, who hugged her. He then carried the woman, who police said was bar owner Tashona Corvi, toward the SUV, put her down and got in the vehicle.
Broncos coach Mike Shanahan said he was "shocked" when he heard about the incident.
"Shocked. Hoping it's not true, and if it is, he'll have to deal with the consequences, which seem like they'll be very steep," Shanahan said Monday.
Hampered by a groin injury, Clarett didn't get much chance to perform in training camp and was released in Denver's first round of cuts. He never got another tryout.
Before Sunday's incident, Clarett was negotiating a deal and was likely going to sign with an NFL team on Monday, Josh Luchs, one of Clarett's agents, told ESPN The Magazine's Tom Friend. Clarett was expected to be allocated to NFL Europe if he signed, Friend reported, but his future now appears uncertain.
Clarett's cousin, Vince Marrow, told the Dispatch he spoke to Clarett's mother Sunday.
"She is shocked. She was getting ready to go to church and I told her there was an arrest warrant for Maurice. She was like, 'What?' " he said.
A message was left Sunday at Mic e Clarett's home in Youngstown.
Broncos safety Nick Ferguson said Clarett fit in OK with the team, mainly because it was hard not to, given the group of players in the Denver locker room.
"I found out the news this morning and it was shocking," Ferguson said. "I don't really know what's going on in his life. There's always a lot going on that we don't know about."
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said he was informed of the incident on his way to Sunday's Fiesta Bowl news conference in Scottsdale, Ariz.
"Obviously, my reaction to that is it's sad," Tressel said, "because, as I said the last few times people have brought up the subject, my hope would be that he would have an opportunity to go over to NFL Europe and make a comeback.
"I hope it's not true, but beyond that, I don't know much, but my reaction is, I was sad."
Clarett rushed for 1,237 yards and scored 16 touchdowns as a freshman. He sat out the 2003 season after he was charged with misdemeanor falsification for filing a police report claiming that more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment was stolen from a car he borrowed from a local dealership. He later pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
Ohio State suspended Clarett for misleading investigators, and for receiving special benefits worth thousands of dollars from a family friend.
In an interview with ESPN The Magazine in November 2004, Clarett said coaches and boosters arranged for him to get passing grades, cars and thousands of dollars while at Ohio State. None of the allegations were verified and Clarett never responded to NCAA requests to be interviewed about them as part of its investigation into Ohio State's athletic program.
Clarett also unsuccessfully challenged the NFL's requirement that players wait three years after high school before turning pro in a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
GO MAURICE..YOU ARE AN INSTRUMENT OF THE MAN!!!! NOT GUILTY! Let's drum up some OJ sentiment $#!T!!!!!!
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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- While some of Maurice Clarett's ex-teammates slept off the celebration of their latest Fiesta Bowl victory, the former Ohio State running back shuffled into a courtroom Tuesday in handcuffs and jail-issue clothing to face robbery charges.
He posted bond and was released later in the day.
Clarett, who led the Buckeyes to the national championship in the same stadium almost exactly three years earlier, faced a judge for the first time since he was accused of robbing two people with a gun in an alley behind a downtown bar early Sunday.
Wearing a loose-fitting tan shirt, dark pants and sandals, Clarett did not speak and was not asked to make a plea. The 22-year-old Clarett was released from Franklin County jail early Tuesday afternoon after posting $50,000 bond, a sheriff's deputy said.
Each of the two charges of aggravated robbery carries a possible sentence of three to 10 years, with another one to three years added to each because a gun was used.
"We are looking forward to investigating the allegations," Clarett's attorney, William Settina, said outside court. "That's all I can say."
According to a police report, Clarett flashed a gun and demanded property from a man and a woman behind the Opium Lounge in downtown Columbus early Sunday morning. He fled with two men in a sport utility vehicle after he was identified by the bar owner, who happened to come out into the alley; no one was injured, and only a cell phone was taken from the alleged victims, police said.
Clarett's next hearing is set for Jan. 12.
Police had been looking for him for the better part of two days before he turned himself in shortly after Ohio State beat Notre Dame 34-20 in the Tos os Fiesta Bowl in Tempe, Ariz., on Monday night.
USA Today's national offensive player of the year as a senior at Warren G. Harding (Ohio) High School, Clarett rushed for 1,237 yards and scored 16 touchdowns as a freshman in 2002.
It was Clarett who, as a star freshman tailback, had scored the final touchdown on Jan. 3, 2003, in the same bowl to give the Buckeyes a 31-24 upset of top-ranked Miami in double-overtime. The victory gave Ohio State its first national championship since 1968.
Clarett's fortunes have changed dramatically in the three years since he scored on that five-yard run.
In the summer of 2003 he reported he had lost more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment when a car he had borrowed from a local dealership was broken into. Police later determined that he lied about the theft. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor.
The investigation led to Ohio State suspending Clarett for misleading investigators, and for receiving special benefits worth thousands of dollars from a family friend.
Clarett dropped out of Ohio State, then challenged the NFL's requirement that players wait three years after high school before turning pro. The case went all the way to the Supreme Court before Clarett lost.
In an interview with ESPN The Magazine in November 2004, Clarett said coaches and boosters arranged for him to get passing grades, cars and thousands of dollars while at Ohio State. None of the allegations was verified, and Clarett never responded to NCAA requests to be interviewed as part of its investigation into Ohio State's athletic program.
After two years in limbo, he was taken in the third round by the Denver Broncos in last year's draft, but the team cut him in August.
Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel said the day before the Fiesta Bowl that he had recently spoken with Clarett about playing in Europe.
"As I said the last few times people have brought up the subject, my hope would be that he would have an opportunity to go over to NFL Europe and make a comeback," Tressel said Sunday.
Before the incident, Clarett was negotiating a deal with an NFL team, Josh Luchs, one of Clarett's agents, told ESPN The Magazine's Tom Friend. Clarett was expected to be allocated to NFL Europe if he signed, Friend reported.
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