7 UGA football players victims of locker room theft
Athens — Seven football players were victims of thefts at Butts-Mehre Heritage Hall, University of Georgia police confirmed Monday.
Jamel Allen, Kenarious Gates, Abry Jones, Jordan Love, Rhett McGowan, Alexander Ogletree and Shawn Williams all reported that items totaling $1,330 were stolen out of their lockers last Thursday afternoon, according to police reports. No players are expected to have been involved in the thefts.
“We haven’t ruled anything out but have no reason to suspect that,” UGA Police Lt. Eric Dellinger said.
Last Thursday afternoon the normally heavily-secured building — which requires fingerprint identification to access – was unsecured for “faculty appreciation day.” Here is a link to a UGA video report on that event.
All the items stolen were small electronic devices. The most expensive single item to go missing was the Apple iPhone 4 with red and black otter box belonging to Jones. It was valued at $500. One other iPhone and several iPods also were taken.
“It’s not uncommon for thefts to take place in secured buildings during events like this,” Dellinger said. “The lockers they were taken from weren’t locked.”
So far UGA detectives don’t have any suspects.
By Chip Towers
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Russ, the Temporary Mascot
April 12th, 2011
10:33 am
Have they caught the culprit(s)? Do they have any leads? Have they tried fingerprinting? Have they checked the running backs’ rooms? If I was in charge of this investigation we’d have somebody in jail by now. If it turns out to be another player(s) we can get him out like we always do.
DJ Dawg
April 12th, 2011
10:34 am
Werent locked??????????????? Isnt that why they are called LOCKERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????
Russ, the Temporary Mascot
April 12th, 2011
10:38 am
I had a $500 telephone when I was first picked to be Temporary Mascot. I had to get rid of it after they painted my a$$ white and it started drawing attention. Doesn’t look good for the mascot to have a fancier phone than the defensive coordinator. He can speed dial the doughnut shop on his phone and that’s all he really cares about.
51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
10:38 am
It had to be the Faculty. The teachers don’t get paid enough so they just took the stuff as their Bonus for having to try educate these football players.
Damn Smart Dawgs
April 12th, 2011
10:39 am
Why didnt these plaeyers lock their stuff up? Its lockers stupid!
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April 12th, 2011
10:41 am
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51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
10:42 am
No TEXTBOOKS were taken so we know it had to be an athlete right?
Atl Sports Fan
April 12th, 2011
11:08 am
51WTGW50, Classy comment. Aren’t you the same person who posted SEC baseball standings on another page? Hmm, if my memory is correct you posted SEC baseball standings that are surely not from this year. So making a comment like this one when you can’t even find the current years standings really makes you look stupid….
BornADawg
April 12th, 2011
11:15 am
I had some relevant comments to make but the more I read some of the ignorant comments here (and every day) it just took the heart out of me! Very disheartening to realize we have so many ignorant fans who can’t, won’t or don’t read the articles, they just start spouting off. For all you true Dawg fans with a clue, let’s make a pact to just TRY and ignore some of these people (easier said than done, I know) and maybe they’ll just crawl back under their rock
seabass
April 12th, 2011
11:17 am
Auburn strikes again!
Buster
April 12th, 2011
11:40 am
The value of the iPhone 4 was $500? Say what! Must have been a very valuable Contact list!
teacher
April 12th, 2011
11:40 am
ironic
YardDawg
April 12th, 2011
11:45 am
Somebody better check with the almighty NCAA before insurance pays for this stuff. They don’t take kindly to players getting money.
Unless, or course, an athlete’s dad gets the money with the son knowing nothing about it. Wink, wink . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiL5UJmkfco
1eyedJack
April 12th, 2011
11:51 am
Chip, if I say I’m sorry for responding to the race baiters on your blog, like Tide Roll, will you unblock my home IP address? You’ve got worse comments on THIS blog than I ever made.
I understand your indignation. And I am offering explanation, not excuse. I myself am offended by those who cannot find the proper words to express themselves and have recourse to….
Perhaps if I apologize and send you some flowers, or perhaps a fruit basket, with a card depicting a misty seascape and inscribed with a sentiment.
I’M SORRY!! I won’t do it again.
P.S. Tell Tim Tucker to unblock me too.
Dawg Gone
April 12th, 2011
12:05 pm
WDE really your talking about police cars….hell at Awbarn they have to call the SWAT team.
Buckeye
April 12th, 2011
12:06 pm
Speaking of Booger and the Tri Lams….best movie line ever…..
“We have bush”
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April 12th, 2011
12:16 pm
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Delbert D.
April 12th, 2011
12:24 pm
Jack – Your humility and contrition are truly over the top. I’ve got to print that out and keep it in my wallet. You never know when there’s a cop hiding behind a billboard.
puppydawg
April 12th, 2011
12:26 pm
51WTGW50, is your screen name based on Paul Johnson’s bra size?
51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
12:40 pm
puppydawg
no it is from all the dead Uga’s.
Have you seen Grantham? He is no sexy shaped man either.
NFL Bound
April 12th, 2011
12:47 pm
With the characters we recruit I am 90% sure it was one of them with the other 10% going toward one of our returning rb’s.
51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
12:52 pm
Couldn’t be one of the running backs. If it was then, the items would have been found (fumbled) all over campus.
HECKLE
April 12th, 2011
12:53 pm
Where is my first message?????????
puppydawg
April 12th, 2011
12:58 pm
51WTGW50, dead Uga’s? I don’t even know what that means. Is that supposed to be offensive somehow? If so, it was a feeble attempt. I do know that an Uga, alive or otherwise, is superior to any of the pantywaists that have ever worn that ugly Buzz costume. It looks like a cartoon character. And Grantham is svelte compared to Johnson.
IRISH DAWG
April 12th, 2011
1:06 pm
AUBURN FOOTBALL PLAYERS ONLY ROB TRAILER PARKS !!!!
BigDawg6
April 12th, 2011
1:15 pm
Rumor has it that whoever did it was trying to raise money for the upcoming UGA Football Bail Fund. After last year, the account was dry.
51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
1:18 pm
If the account was DRY that is the only thing in Athens that is DRY. Leeburn makes sure Athens always has a good FLOW.
BigDawg6
April 12th, 2011
1:21 pm
51W….- Mark Richt’s scalp and his over-tanned skin are both pretty dry.
old time dog
April 12th, 2011
1:21 pm
Bill King will probably have an article on this after you broke the story. Give him another three or four days.
DawginLex
April 12th, 2011
1:22 pm
The only bail funds needed are for Auburn players.
Felonies require bail.
Riding a moped backwards doesn’t.
Tool
Sven Ottke
April 12th, 2011
1:26 pm
Chip,
Congrats on becoming the new beat writer for the Dogs. Your 2 year try out paid off!
WIN WITH RICHT
April 12th, 2011
1:33 pm
Buckeye
You certainly are fixated on Richt’s hairdo. Haven’t you and the rest of the girls in the hair salon got anything else to talk about while giving pedicures? P.S. Those cute wittle sweater vests went out of style when the Brady Bunch got canceled.
51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
1:43 pm
DawginLex wrong. driving on a suspended license will require you to be Bail/ bonded out of jail.
Law Dawg
April 12th, 2011
1:50 pm
First Scum Bucket I would question would be the Hood Family. POS
ClinchCountyDawg
April 12th, 2011
1:52 pm
Sounds like a carload of Awbarn football players were on a road trip.
CSI
April 12th, 2011
1:57 pm
Inside job.
51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
2:05 pm
Wow, Tech where people get robbed and mugged just off campus by Strangers. UGA where the students commit the crimes against each other all over town.
Wouldn’t you think it was a player? They belong in the locker room and not fear being seen. I would think most other people would be afraid to go in. Unless they knew nobody would come in and catch them I think it has to be someone in the football department.
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April 12th, 2011
2:07 pm
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Law Dawg
April 12th, 2011
2:07 pm
Why the hell is this open for discussion? Hello Chip?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AJC ARE THE ONES WITHOUT ETHICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why are the VICITIMS names reported!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hello Chip? Hellooooooo
AJC? This is pure garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dawg Gone
April 12th, 2011
2:08 pm
Hey really how many trailer parks will Awburn players have to knock off to net $1,330.00?? I’m thinking 5 if the haul off their last job is a good benchmark??
old time dog
April 12th, 2011
2:10 pm
Chip, I may do an article on this and just change a few of your words. It will likely be in a few days. I would like to thank you and all the other AJC writers for providing me with articles. Sincerely, Bill King
WDE
April 12th, 2011
2:14 pm
Dawg Gone,
Get your facts straight. The SWAT teams don’t go Auburn.
http://www.wrdw.com/home/headlines/Richmond_County_SWAT_team_assists_in_manhunt_118582349.html
Hey, St. Richt
April 12th, 2011
2:15 pm
St. Richt
April 12th, 2011
9:22 am
I got $100 that says the culprits are football players.
If you have $100 that talks, it’s probably worth more than $100. You and your talking money should join a circus.
Dawg Gone
April 12th, 2011
2:31 pm
WDE get your facts straight moron…there was NO football players involved in that man hunt…unlike the armed robbery of a trailer park by the Awburn players….I’ve never taken a shot at the good folks of Auburn just the staff and players of Awburn…and bringing that tragic incident up as a way of goading fans on a football blog is just in bad taste and so bloody typical of you and your trailer park fan base..and good man lost his life here and you want to bash a football program with that tragedy..
WDE
April 12th, 2011
2:32 pm
Save your $100.
If a UGA player took the stuff, it would have already been fumbled and recovered by the police.
WDE
April 12th, 2011
2:33 pm
Dawg Gone,
Remember it was YOU who brought up the SWAT team.
51WTGW50
April 12th, 2011
2:37 pm
It was Trinton Sturdivant. He was mad he will not make big money in the NFL. So, he had to get some walking around money (so to speak) LOL.
Dawg Gone
April 12th, 2011
2:38 pm
And you that started the crap to begin with…what are you going to do tough guy call Mommy? Don’t you have a date in a trailer park somewhere?
DawginLex
April 12th, 2011
2:39 pm
It was Mike Hampton
Inconvenient Truth
April 12th, 2011
2:41 pm
Tech’s football players have the highest SAT scores of any public university in the country.
They do indeed, and that’s just one reason why Tech fans love their team so much.
No, they can’t compete with UGA’s goons and morons on the field, but Tech players don’t end up pushing shopping carts or riding the back of garbage trucks like UGA players after Mark Richt dumps them when their eligibility is up.
That’s just one of those inconvenient truths for dawgtards.
There’s a reason why UGA is known worldwide as The Cesspool of the South.