Another Ut Football Player Facing Charges

[GreenBat]

Another UT football player facing charges

11:00 AM CT

11:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, September 18, 2007

By CHIP BROWN / The Dallas Morning News

chipbrown@dallasnews.com

Texas redshirt freshman running back James Henry has been charged with felony counts of retaliation and tampering with physical evidence in connection with the alleged armed robbery involving former Longhorns football player Robert Joseph in July, according to Austin police.

According to police, Henry admitted to Joseph in a taped jailhouse phone conversation to assaulting one of the victims and disposing of a backpack containing stolen items in the alleged July robbery.

From Statesman.com

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Longhorn James Henry arrested on felony charges

Tuesday, September 18, 2007, 09:59 AM

Updated at 11:05 a.m. with details of incident from court records:

Longhorn football player James Henry has been arrested on a pair of third-degree felony charges. He is accused of retaliating against victims who turned in a teammate for an alleged robbery.

Henry, a redshirt freshman who has played on special teams this season, is charged with “obstruction or retaliation” and “tampering or fabricating physical evidence.” Combined, bail is set at $30,000. Henry was booked into jail at 3:59 p.m. Monday.

In their arrest affidavit, Austin police accuse the 19-year-old Henry of retaliating on behalf of teammate Robert Joseph, who was arrested July 27 on aggravated robbery charges. Joseph and teammate Andre Jones were charged with breaking in to a Southeast Austin apartment and robbing several people in the apartment.

Police say that Joseph called Henry the next day from jail, and their conversation was recorded. In that call, police say, Henry told Joseph that he’d gone to the scene of the robbery and confronted witnesses. “I went over there and whooped all them niggas last night, fool,” Henry is quoted as saying in the recording, according to the arrest affidavit.

When police interviewed Henry and confronted him about the conversation, he admitted that he’d confronted the victims and gotten into a fight with them, the affidavit says.

The victims told police that Henry had come up to them and asked, “Who narked on us?”

They said that Henry tried to get into a fight with one of the men, 18-year-old Andre Swain, and told him, “Bitches deserve to get kicked, so that’s what I am going to do!” The witnesses said that Henry then kicked Swain six or seven times in the head and punched him repeatedly.

Henry is the latest in a string of Texas football players to be arrested over the past four months.

The roundup since June:

— Backup safety/receiver Tyrell Gatewood (now suspended indefinitely) on misdemeanor drug charges, accused of having Xanax and prescription codeine cough syrup in his car. Freshman cornerback Ben Wells was cited in the same traffic stop for possession of drug paraphernalia but not was not taken to jail.

— Joseph (now transferred from the team) on the aggravated robbery charge and attempted car theft charges in separate incidents.

— Jones (now suspended indefinitely) on the same aggravated robbery charge as Joseph.

— Linebacker Sergio Kindle (returning from three-game suspension this week) on a charge of driving while intoxicated.

— Defensive end Henry Melton (also returning from three-game suspension) on a charge of driving while intoxicated.

Edited September 18, 2007 by GreenBat

[Eagle1855]

unbelievable.

[greenminer]

Birds of a feather...

[NT03]

There has got to be a RULE change. Any college athlete arrested and convicted of a crime should be automatically be kicked off the team for the remainder of the season. I don't care if it's a DUI or getting into a bar fight. This is getting ridiculous. I wish Roger Goodell was head of the NCAA. Scholarships need to be taken away from schools who only look at on field performance when handing them out

[LongJim]

Fulmer Cup Standings

[GreenBat]

Fulmer Cup Standings

Have the standings been updated since the Henry arrest?

[LongJim]

No. If EDSBS counts it, it'll put them in a tie w/Meat Chicken.

[UNTFan23]

Way to represent, University of Texas Thugs.

[GreenBat]

Book 'em Whorns!

[untbowler]

To go along with the Whorn Convicts.

Read about this 2x Loser from LSU

LSU RS Frosh LB

Les Miles looks great now reinstating this kid after the first incident.

** read in another artcle that Miles does not plan to take further action**

Edited September 20, 2007 by untbowler