LINEBACKER GETS ARRESTED.Byline: Brian Dohn Staff Writer UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX freshman linebacker Xavier Burgess was arrested late Monday by UCLA campus police and faces felony charges for verbally threatening a campus parking attendant. Burgess, a little-used special-teams player, was booked at the campus police station and transported to the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Sheriff's Department substation in West Hollywood West Hollywood A community of southern California northeast of Beverly Hills. It is mainly residential. Population: 36,600. . Burgess, 19, was not able to post $50,000 bail and remained incarcerated incarcerated /in·car·cer·at·ed/ (in-kahr´ser-at?ed) imprisoned; constricted; subjected to incarceration. in·car·cer·at·ed adj. Confined or trapped, as a hernia. late Tuesday. UCLA coach Karl Dorrell declined comment about the situation because the school, which announced the arrest, was still gathering facts. However, Burgess is expected to be suspended for at least one game. Burgess, who played at Grant Union High in Sacramento, has an 8:30 a.m. hearing today and charges would be filed at LAX Courthouse. According to the campus police station log report, Burgess made threatening remarks to a parking enforcement officer A parking enforcement officer or parking attendant is a member of a traffic control department or agency who issues tickets for parking violations. Where parking meters are used, they may be known as a meter attendant outside of a campus residence hall. He faces up to a year in county jail, or state prison. Burgess is the third member of the Bruins to be arrested in the past four months. Backup cornerback Marcus Cassel pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence of alcohol and backup quarterback John Sciarra to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct-public intoxication intoxication, condition of body tissue affected by a poisonous substance. Poisonous materials, or toxins, are to be found in heavy metals such as lead and mercury, in drugs, in chemicals such as alcohol and carbon tetrachloride, in gases such as carbon monoxide, and and giving false information to a police officer. Sciarra's next court date is Thursday. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: XAVIER BURGESS Freshman linebacker is the third UCLA football player arrested in the past four months. |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion