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Former Lufkin DL Rashad Hunt, 2 others arrested on burglary charges at Texas Tech


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LUBBOCK, Texas -- Three Texas Tech football players face burglary charges after being accused of breaking into a house and leaving with a laptop computer and an iPod, police said Tuesday.

 

Defensive end Rashad Hunt, offensive lineman Dimitri Lott and linebacker Julius Howard, all redshirt freshmen, were arrested about 3 a.m. Friday.

 

Efforts to reach attorneys representing the players were unsuccessful Tuesday.

 

None of the players has been dismissed or suspended, and Tech coach Mike Leach said he wasn't aware of the allegations until Monday.

 

"We wait until a guy's guilty," Leach said. "But if we're certain somebody's guilty, we may act sooner."

 

A man at the home called police after he saw two men leaving the front door then noticed the electronics gear missing. Officers arrested the three after stopping a car matching the one described by the man at the home, then found items believed to be from the home, police said.

 

Hunt, Dimitri and Howard were arraigned Saturday on charges of burglary of a habitation and released on $3,500 bond.

 

Copyright 2006 by The Associated Press

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Originally posted by setxsports

What's wrong with kids now days?

 

Football only lasts for a season. Being a thug is a year-round endeavor.

 

Truth of the matter, they were scumbags before they were football players. ;)

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2 of the 3 are done for good at ttech

 

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/11010...d_4509956.shtml

 

Leach dismisses two Tech players

BY DON WILLIAMS

AVALANCHE-JOURNAL

 

 

Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach has kicked offensive lineman Dimitri Lott and defensive end Rashad Hunt off the team in the wake of their arrests Friday in connection with a Lubbock residential burglary.

 

Leach said another player arrested in the same incident, linebacker Julius Howard, is in good standing with the team as far as he is concerned. All three are freshmen who came to Tech as scholarship athletes.

 

Leach said the dismissals of Lott and Hunt are permanent.

 

Though his statements Monday didn't reflect it, Leach said after Wednesday's practice that he already had written off Hunt "for failing to show up to meetings and classes and some things of that nature.''

 

He said he decided Tuesday night to dismiss Lott.

 

As for Howard's status, Leach said, "He's fine.''

 

Explaining their situations Monday, Leach said he didn't think Howard "had a significant role in any of this.''

 

Shortly before 3 a.m. Friday, police responded to a call from a Lubbock resident who said he saw two men leaving through the front door of his home and then noticed electronic equipment missing. Police obtained a description of the suspect vehicle and subsequently arrested all three players after a traffic stop. According to police, the missing electronic equipment was discovered during the stop.

 

Mike Calfin, a Lubbock attorney who represents Lott and Howard, declined to comment when contacted Wednesday.

 

"It's too early to say anything,'' he said.

 

Hunt lost his scholarship before the season when he was ruled academically ineligible. Though barred from playing, rules didn't prohibit him from working out.

 

Tech offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh said recently that, of the offensive linemen the team signed in February, Lott and Chris Olson had been the most advanced during workouts this season. Lott had been training at guard and center.

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