KFDM COOP Posted March 13, 2007 Report Posted March 13, 2007 9 Diboll Football players arrested Monday, March 12, 2007Nine Diboll High School senior football players were arrested Monday morning and charged with burglarizing a campus building, a felony offense, after allegedly participating in a senior prank March 6."It was wrong, and it crossed the line, so we have to pursue it as such," said officer Jake Denman, chief of police for the Diboll Independent School District.The following were arrested and charged with burglary of a building: Draylen Fussell, 18; Jarrod Christmas, 18; Carlos Nunez, 18; Ben Charles Beaty, 17; Sean Havard, 18; Michael Mitchell, 17; Jayce Murry, 18; Courtney Tillman, 17; and Winston Ives, 18.One other student's arrest is also pending, authorities said.All would likely be placed on school suspension, according to Diboll ISD Athletic Director Gary Martel.The 10 seniors allegedly arrived on campus late at night on March 6 and broke into a campus building.Denman would not share details of the prank, stressing he did not want to encourage copy-cat incidents."This is not a simple prank," he said.Custodial staff and administrators discovered the prank early on the morning of March 7 and called in extra staff to help clean up the campus before the start of the school day.The cleanup postponed school by about 10 minutes, Denman said."The school did a good job cleaning up and keeping the students from seeing it," he said.Senior pranks are a tradition at most American high schools. They are usually organized by a group of 12th-grade students who often wrap their school campus in toilet paper or string underwear up a campus flagpole.Martel confirmed the students arrested were senior athletes, most of them honor students."It was a senior prank that got out of hand," Martel said. "If they had stayed outside the building and just wrapped the lumberjack statue or ran underwear up the flagpole ... that's where the prank should have stopped. But once they went inside the building, it was considered breaking and entering, and it escalated from there."He said most of the students had already called him and apologized."They owned up to it. It was something that was meant to be funny when it started out, and it turned out to be not funny at all."Calls to administrators at Diboll Independent School District for comment were unsuccessful. The administration office is closed for spring break.City Editor Gary Willmon contributed to this report.
CRUSHCOACH Posted March 13, 2007 Report Posted March 13, 2007 WOW !!! What a way to go out your Senior year.
Guest WBFan09 Posted March 13, 2007 Report Posted March 13, 2007 one thing you dont do is get caught goodness
Mr. Buddy Garrity Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 We never got caught, but these goofs just went too far with it. You dont break into a freaking building...lol ;D
Tiger90 Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 On another forum they said former Jasper standout Moye may have been involved as well. Where did he get a scholarship?
Mr. Buddy Garrity Posted March 15, 2007 Report Posted March 15, 2007 I havent heard that, i've talked to some friends there in Diboll they didnt mention G in any of it.  I think he's going to Missouri.
Tiger90 Posted March 16, 2007 Report Posted March 16, 2007 Hopefully they were just talking nonsense. The kid has a lot of potential.
Hupernikomen Posted March 16, 2007 Report Posted March 16, 2007 The one pending arrest is the one that had me wondering...probably just a rumor.
snowflake Posted March 18, 2007 Report Posted March 18, 2007 THE "ONE PENDING" WAS GILBERT MOYE. THIS WAS ALL A PRANK GONE BAD. NOTHING WAS STOLEN. THE KIDS WERE WRAPPING THE SCHOOL AND RUBBING "CATFISH CHARLIE " ON THE DOOR HANDLES OF THE SCHOOL WHEN ONE OF THEM NOTICED THE DOOR WAS OPEN. THEY DIDN'T BREAK ANYTHING TO GET IN. IT IS STILL CONSIDERED BREAKING AND ENTERING THOUGH.
BC28in80 Posted March 23, 2007 Report Posted March 23, 2007 Maybe they should have kept it simple - like stealing the bear! Sorry LCM!I hope the Statute of Limitations has run out!
Hupernikomen Posted March 23, 2007 Report Posted March 23, 2007 THE "ONE PENDING" WAS GILBERT MOYE. THIS WAS ALL A PRANK GONE BAD. NOTHING WAS STOLEN. THE KIDS WERE WRAPPING THE SCHOOL AND RUBBING "CATFISH CHARLIE " ON THE DOOR HANDLES OF THE SCHOOL WHEN ONE OF THEM NOTICED THE DOOR WAS OPEN. THEY DIDN'T BREAK ANYTHING TO GET IN. IT IS STILL CONSIDERED BREAKING AND ENTERING THOUGH.Whoever it was it sure smells kind of "fishy".
Lucky Posted March 23, 2007 Report Posted March 23, 2007 They must have pee'd in the coffee pot too ?
hj_hawk_60 Posted March 24, 2007 Report Posted March 24, 2007 retartds... if their AD is anything like HJ's COACH martel (their brothers) then those guys are gonna have some bad days ahead...
go stros Posted March 24, 2007 Report Posted March 24, 2007 instead of stink bait i woulda used KY....hahahaha good luck tryn to get them doors open after that! lol
tvc184 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 WOW !!! What a way to go out your Senior year.What a way to start your life after high school, with a felony record.
tvc184 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Posted March 25, 2007 This will all likely be dropped from a felony burglary to a misdemeanor trespassing. They will then get deferred probation meaning that they will likely pay a fine, do some community service and if they stay clean for 6 months, the whole deal will be off of their record.
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