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RB Lydell Ross (official thread)

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the latest on Lydell is that he might not be back for awhile.

from the Dispatch:

The police investigation into charges that Ohio State football player Lydell Ross passed fake in-house currency at a Columbus strip club will begin today.

And don’t expect Ross, who is suspended from the team, to be reinstated before the investigation is complete.

K.J. Kopras, assistant manager of Pure Platinum, said yesterday that he has been summoned to Columbus police headquarters today for an interview. The club’s general manager, Selby Rupe, is out of town on vacation this week.

Kopras said he was told police have put a priority on the investigation, probably because of Ross’s high profile. Detective Charles Currier is handling the case.

Ross, 20, was suspended by coach Jim Tressel on Friday after a complaint was filed with police. Ross allegedly passed five fake $10 "Platinum Bills" to a dancer at the club on Oct. 17.

Ross has not been arrested or charged. If he is charged, it likely would be for theft by deception, according to the complaint.

Ross, a senior tailback and a team captain, was not on the sideline for OSU’s game against Indiana Saturday.

Rupe has said that in a meeting last Wednesday, Ross admitted passing the fake money but that it was given to him and he didn’t know it was fake. He refused to say who gave it to him.

Who provided the bills is the key to whether the allegation turns into an NCAA violation as well as a criminal matter.

NCAA spokesman Jeff Howard said the Platinum Bills, although only used as in-house currency, would not be considered an improper benefit under NCAA bylaws if Ross received them from a friend or even a former player not actively associated with the athletics department.

But if he received them from someone tied to the OSU athletics department — a booster — Ross would be ineligible. If the NCAA determined the university knew (or should have known) that Ross was receiving the benefit, OSU would be in violation of NCAA rules, as well.

That’s why Ross is unlikely to play until the investigation is complete. If Ross plays now and is later ruled ineligible, the school could be forced to forfeit any victories it posted during that time.

Detective Erik Stoddard said the investigation into the complaint may not begin for days because the division has other priorities

"It's not something we're going to put at the top of the pile just because, oh, my God, it's been on TV — we'd better do it quick," he said. "If there's 20 fresh cases, it's going to be treated like one of the 20."
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Please tell me I'm having a nightmare -- too much Chipotle right before bedtime and my unconscious mind's running amok.

Are the Columbus, Ohio police actually investigating whether someone used counterfeit pretend-currency to pay for a lap dance at a strip club?

Are the citizens of central Ohio up in arms over the possibility that a strip club owner and a lap-dance stripper might have been 'cheated' out of their ill-gotten gains?

Are we using taxpayer funds to insure that the neo-pimps and scumbags who run these clubs get every last dollar they can possibly steal from their pathetic lap dance patrons?

Has Columbus become Bizzaro World, where everything is the opposite of conventional reality?

Put your weapon down, Detective Currier, and walk slowly back to your cruiser before the reputation of the entire city of Columbus gets hurt.
 
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I'm with Woody on this one, what a complete and total waste of taxpayers money and 5-0's time.

A strip joint gets cheated on about $50 of their own play money and they run to the cops? Does this mean I could have pressed charges all these years for the $7 watered down drinks they serve me? Or if theft by deception is where they want to go how about every time a guy leaves the fucking place with a bad case of blueballs? Theft by deception is how those places make their money!!!! Now they want to bitch when it comes back around??
 
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