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RB Maurice Clarett (B1G Freshman of the Year, National Champion)

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I don't know if anybody saw this on the news but apparenty some guy (that was wanted) had barracaded himself into his house/apartment. Right down the street from me(Ambleside Dr. and Shrock Rd.). Me and my mom were coming home earlier. The police had the road blocked. I looked up the street and they had like 25 cruisers and a SWAT team there. They had the big RV thing and everything(Where they plan what they are going to do).

As soon as I saw that, I was thinking to myself...Could that be Clarett?

Later on the night I saw it on the news and they identified the guy as someone else(Not Clarett).

Just wierd. For a second there I thought Clarett was living less than a mile away from me. Actually for some reason I'm kinda happy that it wasn't him.
 
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All I know is that if I get up tomorrow morning and see a white SUV driving along I-71 with a gaggle of OHP cruisers following along I'm gonna be pissed, especially when they're playing the phone transcript..."This is Louis....Louis Irizarry...Reecie's in the back...He just wants to go home!"

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I think it is Clarrett who puts the fun in Dysfunctional
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1/2/06

COMMENTARY

Clarett’s troubles transcend faded star

Monday, January 02, 2006
BOB HUNTER


SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — It all started here three years ago, at a Fiesta Bowl that would crown Ohio State national champion.

The star running back, a brash freshman who had always shown a willingness to speak his mind when it wasn’t wise to do so, started popping off to reporters about how unfair it was that he wasn’t allowed to attend a murdered friend’s funeral back in Youngstown. Maurice Clarett — I’ll mention him by name as little as possible to minimize the chance of widespread nausea — threw enough verbal darts at OSU officials to make them uncomfortable.

"I guess football is more important than a person’s life to them," he said, "so that’s why I’m just ready to get the game over and go back home."

The next day was media day, and by Fiesta Bowl rules he had to be made available for more interviews. But instead of retracting his earlier statements or at least softening them, he let ’er rip again.

"I filled out the paperwork," he said. "So they can’t lie about that. I won’t sit here and let them lie about that. It’s on file."

Ohio State won the game, in part because of him, but his descent had started, and it gradually picked up momentum until it was a full-blown free fall.

He later filed a false police report, was suspended from school, tried to go to the NFL before its rules would allow him to, smeared OSU in a national magazine and was drafted and cut by an NFL team, which brings us to the Fiesta Bowl this year and what seems like the ultimate irony.

Exactly three years from the day he called university officials liars at the Fiesta Bowl, the estranged former Buckeye was accused of robbing a Columbus couple with a gun. On the eve of what should have been his last game as a Buckeye, you-know-who’s latest brush with the law was a prime topic of OSU coach Jim Tressel’s final news conference before today’s Fiesta Bowl game with Notre Dame.

Are you tired of reading about him?

So am I. But I’m even more tired of the prickly issues that made him what he is, the kind of upbringing that virtually guarantees trouble for thousands of inner-city kids; a society that repeatedly coddles outstanding young athletes and tells them that they are above the rules, and the unscrupulous attorneys and agents who offer advice more conducive to their own success than that of their clients.

I’m as sick of reading and writing about Clarett and his poor judgments as many of the people who say they turn the page as soon as they see his name. But his story is too important for us to ignore. His life is a how-not-to-do-it model that every young athlete should examine and try to understand, a road map from the heights of sports stardom to the depths of hell. It is proof that even enormous talent is not enough to guarantee success, that all that corny stuff parents and coaches say about working hard, studying hard and staying out of trouble is true.

"It’s real troubling," Tressel said yesterday. "Not just with youngsters that become newsworthy, but with any kids who don’t go the direction you know they’re capable of or hope for them."

Tressel nailed it with that comment, because it casts this story within the much larger and more serious context of our society as a whole. It is "sad" — Tressel’s word — to see a young athlete waste his talent, but it is just as sad for any young person who gets sidetracked and wastes his opportunities. If Clarett had followed the rules and stayed in school, he likely would have been preparing to collect millions in bonus money from the NFL team that drafted him. But what about the thousands of others who are grappling with the same kinds of choices who don’t have such a gift? What about the kids whose future paths are even less obvious than his?
Sick of Clarett?

Sure.

But there are issues here that are more important than football. It’s not just about him.

Bob Hunter is a sports columnist for The Dispatch.

[email protected]
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Maurice Clarett accused of robbing couple

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/2006-01-01-clarett-robbery_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA


Ex-Ohio State star Clarett accused of robbing two people
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett was accused of robbing two people at gunpoint in an alley behind a bar early Sunday, the latest trouble for the Buckeyes star who left the school in disgrace and failed to gain early entry into the NFL.

Clarett fled the scene and was wanted on two counts of aggravated robbery. According to police, he left in a white sport-utility vehicle with two other men and took only a cellphone from his alleged victims, who weren't injured.
The 22-year-old Clarett fled when the bar owner or manager, who knew both Clarett and the victims, came into the alley and identified him shortly before 2 a.m. Sunday, detectives said.
One alleged victim, Lucas Nyarko, 28, told the Columbus Dispatch that he could not identify Clarett as the man who robbed him. He said his friend identified Clarett after police showed her photographs.
Nyarko said they 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 cellphone, a woman came out of the nightclub 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.
Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said he was informed of the incident on his way to the 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's cousin, Vince Marrow, told the Dispatch he spoke to Clarett's mother on 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 Michelle Clarett's home in Youngstown.
Clarett's agent, Steve Feldman, said Sunday evening he had not yet spoken to his client. "At this point we still don't know what's fact and what's fiction," he said.
Clarett rushed for 1,237 yards and scored 16 touchdowns as a freshman. He helped the Buckeyes win the national championship in 2002, but has found only hard times since.
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.
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.
Clarett was chosen by the Denver Broncos in last year's draft, but the team cut him in August.
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."
 
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"Nyarko (victim) said after he handed the man his cellphone, a woman came out of the nightclub 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."

makes it a bit tuff to presume innocence, huh? won't play well for the defense
 
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Didn't see the original Clarett thread(?). But I found the Columbus Police Report of the robbery.


<form id="Form1" name="Form1" action="PublicReportPrint.aspx?case=328553" method="post"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="624"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="center"> Columbus, OH Division of Police

</td></tr> <tr> <td align="center"> Unofficial Web Report

</td></tr> <tr> <td> <table id="tblMain" style="border-top: thick ridge black;" border="1" bordercolor="white" cellspacing="3"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="width: 83px; height: 23px;">Case #</td> <td style="height: 23px;">060000622 </td> <td style="height: 23px;">Title</td> <td style="height: 23px;">Robbery</td></tr> <tr valign="top"> <td style="width: 83px; height: 40px;">Report #</td> <td style="height: 40px;">060000622.1</td> <td style="height: 40px;">Subject</td> <td style="height: 40px;">450 - Robbery</td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 83px;">Location</td> <td colspan="3">R/o 346 S High St @ The Opium Lounge</td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 83px;">City</td> <td>Columbus</td> <td>Zone</td> <td>4</td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 83px;">Precinct</td> <td>16</td> <td>District</td> <td>162</td></tr> <tr height="40" valign="top"> <td style="width: 83px;">Occurred</td> <td>1/1/2006 1:46:00 AM</td> <td>Between</td> <td>N/A</td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 83px;">Report Date</td> <td>1/1/2006 1:55:00 AM</td> <td>
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</td></tr> <tr> <td style="width: 83px;">Reported By</td> <td>Officer Gates </td> <td>Badge</td> <td>1524</td></tr></tbody></table>
Report Narrative <table id="Table1" style="border-top: thick ridge black;" border="1" bordercolor="white"> <tbody> <tr> <td>VICTIMS STATED THEY CAME OUT OF THE REAR OF THE CLUB TO GET SOME AIR AND A M/B APPROACHED THEM AND STATED HE NEEDED SOMETHING. BOTH VICTIMS THOUGHT THE MALE WAS DRUNK AND MIGHT BE SICK. THE MALE KEPT STATING HE NEEDED SOMETHING. THE MALE VICTIM STATED HE THOUGHT THE UNKNOWN MALE COULD POSSIBLY HAVE A GUN ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS BODY ( IT APPEARED TO HIM THAT THERE WAS A BULKY ITEM UNDER HIS CLOTHING). THE FEMALE VICTIM STATED TOT HE SUSPECT " ARE YOU GOING TO ROB US?" THAT IS WHEN THE SUSPECT TOLD THE VICTIMS TO EMPTY THEIR POCKETS. THE FEMALE VICTIM HAD NOTHING IN HER POCKETS. THE MALE VICTIM HAD HIS CELL PHONE IN HIS POCKET AND THE SUSPECT TOOK IT. DURING THIS PROCESS THE SUSPECT RAISED HIS SHIRT TO EXPOSE WHAT THE VICTIMS THOUGHT WAS A .45 CALIBER HANDGUN BLACK IN COLOR. HE SLID THE GUN FROM THE RIGHT SIDE OF HIS WAISTBAND TO THE MIDDLE AND KEPT IT RAISED TO SHOW THE VICTIMS THAT HE HAD IT. AT THAT POINT THE OWNER OF THE CLUB CAME OUT OF THE REAR DOOR AND SAW THE SUSPECT WHO SHE IDENTIFIED AS MAURICE CLARETT. THE SUSPECT GRABBED THE OWNER, A MRS. TASHONA N. CORVI AND HUGGED HER AND BEGAN DRAGGING HER DOWN THE ALLEY TOWARD THE VEHICLE HE FLED IN WHICH WAS A WHITE, SMALL SUV, POSSIBLY A FORD ESCAPE. THE VICTIMS STATED THERE WAS ANOTHER MALE BLACK THAT WAS STANDING NEXT TO THE BUILDING WHEN THE ROBBERY WAS TAKING PLACE AND WHEN THE SUSPECT FLED THE UNKNOWN M/B GOT INTO THE VEHICLE AND DROVE AWAY WITH THE SUSPECT LEAVING EASTBOUND ON MOUND ST.</td></tr></tbody></table>
Offenses <table id="tblOffenses" style="border-color: black white white; border-top: thick ridge black; width: 500px; border-collapse: collapse;" border="1" bordercolor="white" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);" colspan="3" align="center">Offense #1</td></tr> <tr> <td style="height: 25px;" colspan="3">
</td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;">Offense Description</td> <td style="width: 124px;">
</td> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;" align="center">Completed</td></tr> <tr> <td align="left">Aggravated Robbery _ deadly weapon on or about suspect, control, display, brandish, indicate possession, or use weapon</td> <td style="width: 144px;">
</td> <td align="center">Y</td></tr> <tr> <td style="height: 3pt; background-color: black;" colspan="3">
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Victims <table id="tblVictims" style="border-color: black white white; border-top: thick ridge black; width: 500px;" border="1" bordercolor="white"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);" colspan="3" align="center">Victim #1</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Individual</td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; width: 48px; background-color: lightgrey;" align="left">Name</td> <td style="width: 154px;">
</td> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;" align="right">Gender/Race/Age</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">NYARKO, LUCAS A.</td> <td align="right">M / B / 28</td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; width: 55px; background-color: lightgrey;" align="left">Address</td> <td style="width: 245px;">
</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">346 S High St</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Columbus, OH 43215</td></tr> <tr> <td style="height: 3pt; background-color: black;" colspan="3">
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</td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(220, 220, 220);" colspan="3" align="center">Victim #2</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Individual</td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; width: 48px; background-color: lightgrey;" align="left">Name</td> <td style="width: 154px;">
</td> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;" align="right">Gender/Race/Age</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">DOUGLAS, TYWONA N.</td> <td align="right">F / B / 30</td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; width: 55px; background-color: lightgrey;" align="left">Address</td> <td style="width: 245px;">
</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">346 S High St</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Columbus, OH 43215</td></tr> <tr> <td style="height: 3pt; background-color: black;" colspan="3">
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Arrestees <table id="tblArrestees" style="border-color: black white white; border-top: thick ridge black; width: 500px;" border="1" bordercolor="white"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3" align="center">No Arrestees Reported</td></tr></tbody></table>
Property <table id="tblProperty" style="border-color: black white white; border-top: thick ridge black; width: 500px;" border="1" bordercolor="white"> <tbody> <tr> <td style="background-color: rgb(238, 238, 238);" colspan="3" align="center">Property Item #1</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Cellular Phone</td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;" align="left">Manufacturer</td> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;" align="center">Model</td></tr> <tr> <td>NEXTEL</td> <td align="center">N/A</td> <td align="right">
</td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;" align="left">Description</td> <td style="width: 245px;">
</td> <td style="font-weight: bold; background-color: lightgrey;" align="right">Value</td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="2">NEXTEL PHONE</td> <td align="right">$150.00</td></tr> <tr> <td style="height: 3pt; background-color: black;" colspan="3">
</td></tr> <tr> <td style="height: 25px;" colspan="3">
</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></form>
 
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