Longhorns RB Arrested

[Hostile]

Link (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2444916)

Updated: May 14, 2006, 5:41 PM ET
Longhorns' Taylor, suspended since March, arrested

Associated press

AUSTIN -- Texas running back Ramonce Taylor (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/profile?playerId=162414), who scored a touchdown in the Longhorns' Rose Bowl win over Southern California, was arrested early Sunday by Bell County sheriff's deputies who said they found about five pounds of marijuana in a backpack in his car.

http://espn.go.com/photo/2006/0514/ncf_a_taylor_65.jpg
Taylor

According to a news release from Sheriff Dan Smith, deputies also found a live 40-caliber round of ammunition in the console of the vehicle.

Taylor, 20, was arrested for possession of marijuana over five pounds, a second-degree felony, punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

The case was to be reviewed by District Attorney Henry Garza's office Sunday to decide if formal charges would be filed, the sheriff's office said. Taylor remained in the Bell County Jail and would be arraigned Monday.

Taylor had been excused from spring practice in March to focus on academics and had not participated in any team functions since then, Longhorns Mack Brown (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/profile?playerId=177819) said in a statement released by the school.

"We are aware of this recent situation and will follow it as the legal system runs its course. At this time, we will not consider reinstating him to the team," Brown said.

It was not immediately clear if Taylor had an attorney.

Ken Oden, an Austin attorney who represented Taylor in a December assault investigation -- Taylor wasn't charged -- told the Austin American-Statesman the player's mother told him about the arrest. Oden said he suggested hiring a lawyer in Bell County.

"She's just trying to figure things out," Oden said.

According to the sheriff, deputies received a report at 1:35 a.m. Sunday of a large fight involving as many as 100 people at a pecan farm in Little River, a community about 40 miles north of Austin.

Deputies also received a call from someone who said they had been at the fight and complained a window on his vehicle had been broken. That caller turned out to be Taylor.

While interviewing Taylor at a convenience store, deputies were told by other officers at the fight scene that Taylor had been involved and had threatened to return with a gun. Taylor was placed in handcuffs.

Taylor told deputies he didn't have a gun and gave them permission to search his vehicle. Deputies reported finding the bullet and the backpack with the marijuana. Deputies said the backpack belonged to Taylor.

Taylor was arrested and his vehicle impounded. Two other individuals with him, who were not named in the report, were released at the scene.

An operator at the sheriff's office said Smith would not have further comment Sunday and that no other information was available.

One of Texas' most versatile players, Taylor scored 15 touchdowns last season, including a 30-yard scoring run in the Rose Bowl, which Texas won 41-38. The win gave Texas its first outright national championship since 1969.

[Rack Bauer]

Freakin' moron (Not you Hos).


I just love the way these moron kids do whatever they can to throw their lives/career away.

[cstanton1987]

I go to school at Texas and I'm not surprised thats all I'm saying.

[big dog cowboy]

That just makes me shake my head and wonder....what are you thinking???

[Dawgs0916]

We played this guy. Went to Belton High. Took himself out of Belton's playoff game, and ultimately cost his team the game. Our coach still uses him as an example of what we can't have on OUR team. I will say, hes amazing football player. Too bad his career ended right there it seems.

[Hostile]

We played this guy. Went to Belton High. Took himself out of Belton's playoff game, and ultimately cost his team the game. Our coach still uses him as an example of what we can't have on OUR team. I will say, hes amazing football player. Too bad his career ended right there it seems.Great personal insight into the player, thanks for sharing.

[jimmy40]

Link (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2444916)

Updated: May 14, 2006, 5:41 PM ET
Longhorns' Taylor, suspended since March, arrested

Associated press

AUSTIN -- Texas running back Ramonce Taylor (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/profile?playerId=162414), who scored a touchdown in the Longhorns' Rose Bowl win over Southern California, was arrested early Sunday by Bell County sheriff's deputies who said they found about five pounds of marijuana in a backpack in his car.

http://espn.go.com/photo/2006/0514/ncf_a_taylor_65.jpg
Taylor

According to a news release from Sheriff Dan Smith, deputies also found a live 40-caliber round of ammunition in the console of the vehicle.

Taylor, 20, was arrested for possession of marijuana over five pounds, a second-degree felony, punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.

The case was to be reviewed by District Attorney Henry Garza's office Sunday to decide if formal charges would be filed, the sheriff's office said. Taylor remained in the Bell County Jail and would be arraigned Monday.

Taylor had been excused from spring practice in March to focus on academics and had not participated in any team functions since then, Longhorns Mack Brown (http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/player/profile?playerId=177819) said in a statement released by the school.

"We are aware of this recent situation and will follow it as the legal system runs its course. At this time, we will not consider reinstating him to the team," Brown said.

It was not immediately clear if Taylor had an attorney.

Ken Oden, an Austin attorney who represented Taylor in a December assault investigation -- Taylor wasn't charged -- told the Austin American-Statesman the player's mother told him about the arrest. Oden said he suggested hiring a lawyer in Bell County.

"She's just trying to figure things out," Oden said.

According to the sheriff, deputies received a report at 1:35 a.m. Sunday of a large fight involving as many as 100 people at a pecan farm in Little River, a community about 40 miles north of Austin.

Deputies also received a call from someone who said they had been at the fight and complained a window on his vehicle had been broken. That caller turned out to be Taylor.

While interviewing Taylor at a convenience store, deputies were told by other officers at the fight scene that Taylor had been involved and had threatened to return with a gun. Taylor was placed in handcuffs.

Taylor told deputies he didn't have a gun and gave them permission to search his vehicle. Deputies reported finding the bullet and the backpack with the marijuana. Deputies said the backpack belonged to Taylor.

Taylor was arrested and his vehicle impounded. Two other individuals with him, who were not named in the report, were released at the scene.

An operator at the sheriff's office said Smith would not have further comment Sunday and that no other information was available.

One of Texas' most versatile players, Taylor scored 15 touchdowns last season, including a 30-yard scoring run in the Rose Bowl, which Texas won 41-38. The win gave Texas its first outright national championship since 1969.
The only surprising thing about this story is that 100 people were fighting at a pecan farm.

[DefendeR]

What a moron.

[Hostile]

The only surprising thing about this story is that 100 people were fighting at a pecan farm.:laugh2:

Pecan brandy as fuel?

[Dawgs0916]

Great personal insight into the player, thanks for sharing.

I'll go a little farther into it. Belton High School has had one state playoff appearance the last 15 years. His senior year. The guy was crazy good. Shredded our defense for 350 yards!! And RETURNED an INT for a touchdown, and THREW a touchdown. I promise you guys im not exagerating. And don't think we're some cupcake team, we're perennial district champions. Then a bunch of us went to watch their playoff game, and we witness the most selfish act, I, at least have ever seen. Belton is losing in the third quarter by two TDs, and they're forced to pass. Romance gets in the coaches face about not getting the ball, and pulls himself out. Literally sits out the rest of the game. Thats not even talking about his being suspended from the team two different times during his time there.

Now, when our coach is talking of uniting and putting the team before ourselves, he EVERYTIME refers to that "player who played down the road from us, a couple years ago" and tells the story of him pulling himself out.

[jimmy40]

I'll go a little farther into it. Belton High School has had one state playoff appearance the last 15 years. His senior year. The guy was crazy good. Shredded our defense for 350 yards!! And RETURNED an INT for a touchdown, and THREW a touchdown. I promise you guys im not exagerating. And don't think we're some cupcake team, we're perennial district champions. Then a bunch of us went to watch their playoff game, and we witness the most selfish act, I, at least have ever seen. Belton is losing in the third quarter by two TDs, and they're forced to pass. Romance gets in the coaches face about not getting the ball, and pulls himself out. Literally sits out the rest of the game. Thats not even talking about his being suspended from the team two different times during his time there.

Now, when our coach is talking of uniting and putting the team before ourselves, he EVERYTIME refers to that "player who played down the road from us, a couple years ago" and tells the story of him pulling himself out.
Isn't there a state school for teenage idiots in Belton that causes their enrollment to put them into 5A ball instead of 4A where they should really be?

[stealth]

best part of it all is it sounds like he called the police.

[InmanRoshi]

People can say what you want about marijuanna legalization, but when I read stories like this I think its Darwinism at work. The same goes for anyone who drives 15 miles over the speed limit at night with an expired inspection sticker with 500 lbs. of weed in the back of their van. There are some people who are just too stupid for their own good, and for whatever reason the drug trade seems to attract them like flies to honey. I don't really care if people smoke marijuanna, I'm just glad people like that are not on the streets and breeding.

[The30YardSlant]

So assuming Mack doesnt let Ramonce back on the team, does he have to give back the escalade?

[TEK2000]

That does sound a little weird... Taylor files a report about a window being busted out in his car, consents to a search of his vehicle based, and they find a backpack full of marijuana.

He's being framed!!! Someone planted the weed!! :)

I'm just kidding but its not entirely impossible that someone could have busted out his window and stuffed the marijuana in his backpack. Again.. just throwing out an idea... I'm not making any kind of attempt to defend the guy.

[TEK2000]

So assuming Mack doesnt let Ramonce back on the team, does he have to give back the escalade?
Only matter of time before the Texas bashers jump on... congratulations!! You have something to whine about.

[The30YardSlant]

He's being framed!!! Someone planted the weed!! :)

Nah, it was just weed that Ricky forgot and left behind :laugh2:

[The30YardSlant]

Only matter of time before the Texas bashers jump on... congratulations!! You have something to whine about.

Yes, because no NCAA team would EVER do such a thing as to bribe a player....never.... :rolleyes:

[TEK2000]

Yes, because no NCAA team would EVER do such a thing as to bribe a player....never....

Yes, because its not like you have to have any proof of what you say before it comes spewing out.

[Hostile]

I'll go a little farther into it. Belton High School has had one state playoff appearance the last 15 years. His senior year. The guy was crazy good. Shredded our defense for 350 yards!! And RETURNED an INT for a touchdown, and THREW a touchdown. I promise you guys im not exagerating. And don't think we're some cupcake team, we're perennial district champions. Then a bunch of us went to watch their playoff game, and we witness the most selfish act, I, at least have ever seen. Belton is losing in the third quarter by two TDs, and they're forced to pass. Romance gets in the coaches face about not getting the ball, and pulls himself out. Literally sits out the rest of the game. Thats not even talking about his being suspended from the team two different times during his time there.

Now, when our coach is talking of uniting and putting the team before ourselves, he EVERYTIME refers to that "player who played down the road from us, a couple years ago" and tells the story of him pulling himself out.That's just sad and amazing at the same time. Unreal.

[The30YardSlant]

Yes, because its not like you have to have any proof of what you say before it comes spewing out.

It was a joke, get over it.

However, don't act like tu has NEVER bribed players. James Brown has publically come out and said that he was paid cash while playing at Texas. Earl Campbell was given not one, bit two different cars by the University while there. It was never proven, but a college athlete doesnt just suddenly acquire two expensive cars...

[Hostile]

How did this get off track about a player and turn into yet another point fingers at the school I hate threads?

[The30YardSlant]

No human being should have the right to use the word "dank" in any context, ever

[The30YardSlant]

How did this get off track about a player and turn into yet another point fingers at the school I hate threads?

Someone blowing a joke way out of proportion

[stealth]

That does sound a little weird... Taylor files a report about a window being busted out in his car, consents to a search of his vehicle based, and they find a backpack full of marijuana.

He's being framed!!! Someone planted the weed!! :)

I'm just kidding but its not entirely impossible that someone could have busted out his window and stuffed the marijuana in his backpack. Again.. just throwing out an idea... I'm not making any kind of attempt to defend the guy.

he woulda had to tick someone off pretty bad for them to spend that kinda money just to screw with the guy.

I assume it would be rather expensive but I have no first hand knowledge of that world at all, nope not at all.

[Hostile]

Someone blowing a joke way out of proportionWhy does there need to be a joke about a kid possibly screwing up his chance?

[TEK2000]

It was a joke, get over it.

However, don't act like tu has NEVER bribed players. James Brown has publically come out and said that he was paid cash while playing at Texas. Earl Campbell was given not one, bit two different cars by the University while there. It was never proven, but a college athlete doesnt just suddenly acquire two expensive cars...

How in the world do those events have anything to do with what I said? You claim UT provided Taylor with a free vehicle.. I basically said "Where's your proof?" and you respond with stuff from 30 years go?

NICE ONE.

[TEK2000]

Someone blowing a joke way out of proportion

Sure buddy.. I'm the one that got off topic by taking a stab at UT rather than discussing the article. :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :banghead:

I'm done Hostile.. SORRY!!

[Austin28]

I'll tell you what. I'm going to start smoking this stuff. It seems all the great athletes are doing it.

The list of athletes who toke continues to grow ...

I think I've been lied to.

I was told that it would make me insane, grow breasts and turn me into a midget...

:laugh2:

But right here in my town, some of the best athletes are smoking the ganja - reefer madness!


OK, just kidding ..

Drugs are bad. Mmm'kay?

I would venture to say that a lot more athletes are smoking reefer than people think .. more than some even want to know .. or could even handle knowing.

[jimmy40]

Why does there need to be a joke about a kid possibly screwing up his chance?just another aggie pissed because Texas makes their players earn their cars and a&m gives them out to players for what seems to be no reason at all.

[Vertigo_17]

No human being should have the right to use the word "dank" in any context, ever

I give Too Short a pass on this rule :)

[InmanRoshi]

I'll go out on a limb and say Romance Taylor is a moron.

[TEK2000]

An article with slightly more info:

UT's Taylor charged with marijuana possession



08:57 PM CDT on Sunday, May 14, 2006


By CHIP BROWN / The Dallas Morning News
AUSTIN – The attorney for Texas running back Ramonce Taylor, the all-purpose yardage leader for the national champion Longhorns in 2005, said roughly five pounds of marijuana found in Taylor's car early Sunday didn't belong to Taylor.

The Bell County district attorney's office charged Taylor with state jail felony possession of marijuana Sunday night, pending a final lab analysis for the total weight of the drugs.

If convicted, Taylor could face up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine. If the weight exceeds five pounds, the charge could be upgraded to a second-degree felony, punishable by up to 20 years in prison. Taylor will be arraigned today, when bail will be set.

Deputies said they found an unfired .40 caliber bullet in the center console of Taylor's vehicle. They said while searching the rear of the vehicle they also found a backpack with the marijuana in it. According to a news release from the Bell County sheriff's department, "further investigation indicates the backpack belongs to Ramonce Taylor."

Taylor's attorney, Buck Harris of Killeen, said Taylor would never have been charged if Taylor hadn't called 911 at about 1:30 a.m. to report the back window of his sports utility vehicle being broken out while leaving a party. Harris said there were three other people in the car with Taylor when authorities found the marijuana in the back of Taylor's Chevrolet Tahoe. The identities of the others weren't immediately known.

"More information will be forthcoming about whom the marijuana belonged to, but it didn't belong to Ramonce," Harris said.

"Rarely do people who have large quantities of controlled substance call the police and or offer the right for them to search their car," Harris said. "Generally the last person you want to see at that point is an officer searching your vehicle. I'm not trying to beg the question, I'm just trying to say, this is not a routine traffic stop."

Taylor totaled 15 touchdowns last season, including a score in Texas' 41-38 victory over USC in the Rose Bowl. He had been excused from the team during the spring semester to work on his academics.

"We are aware of this recent situation and will follow it as the legal system runs its course," coach Mack Brown said in a statement released Sunday.

"At this time, we will not consider reinstating him to the team."

According to the Bell County sheriff's office, deputies received a report of a fight involving as many as 100 people at a pecan farm on Highway 95 in Little River.

Authorities said they were told by witnesses at the scene that Taylor was involved in the fight and had threatened to return with a firearm. Harris said Taylor was the target of racial slurs and left the party without fighting, only to have his car's window broken out.

After deputies responded to Taylor's 911 call, he was handcuffed in the parking lot of the Cefco Convenience Store in Academy, two miles from Little River. Taylor granted the deputies' request to search his vehicle, authorities said, adding that Taylor was totally cooperative.

Harris said Taylor was in Austin on Saturday studying for a final at Texas today when he headed home to see his mother, Ramona Clark, a former state prison guard, for Mother's Day.

Taylor and former Texas cornerback Cedric Griffin were the subjects of a criminal investigation by the Austin Police Department in December. Police looked into whether Taylor and Griffin were involved in an alleged assault in Austin's Sixth Street entertainment district on Dec. 10, 2005. No charges were filed in that case.

[Jimmie]

he's innocent until proven guilty. Until then, unlike others here, I'll keep my comments to myself.

[The30YardSlant]

he's innocent until proven guilty. Until then, unlike others here, I'll keep my comments to myself.

Denial, no longer just a river in Egypt

[Hostile]

he's innocent until proven guilty. Until then, unlike others here, I'll keep my comments to myself.Exactly right.

[Dawgs0916]

he's innocent until proven guilty. Until then, unlike others here, I'll keep my comments to myself.

I hope by me passing along experiences of what I've seen him do, it didn't give off the sense that I think of him as a bad guy, or even that I know he's guilty. I hope hes cleaned up, because he could be a real superstar.

[Funxva]

As usual, he will be looked at by Miami before playing in the CFL.

[Scotman]

I know this kid. There's so much I'd like to say. I'll leave it at this, I'm not surprised.

[Jimmie]

Denial, no longer just a river in Egypt

I guess what your hoping, is thats 1 less weapon the 'horns will have to take A&M apart, AGAIN!:laugh2:

[CrazyCowboy]

The new "Ricky Williams"!

[royhitshard]

That does sound a little weird... Taylor files a report about a window being busted out in his car, consents to a search of his vehicle based, and they find a backpack full of marijuana.

He's being framed!!! Someone planted the weed!! :)

I'm just kidding but its not entirely impossible that someone could have busted out his window and stuffed the marijuana in his backpack. Again.. just throwing out an idea... I'm not making any kind of attempt to defend the guy.
You must be smoking weed.:D

[BARRYRAY]

I guess I look at this differently. I see it as a FA for the Cowboys, rather have them get their wild oats out of the way before training camp begins, heck we take everybody, this guy might fill our need for a back up, we just had the guy in last week from where was it South Carolina or somewhere, thats what I like about the pros we don't let things like drugs or whatever affect the bottom line, if they can play we keep them. Besides there's no way this guy goes down for this, I'm sure he just found it and was bringing it in or yada yada...

[The30YardSlant]

I guess what your hoping, is thats 1 less weapon the 'horns will have to take A&M apart, AGAIN!:laugh2:

No, I'm actually hoping that that vaunted tu education starts to pay off and you learn the difference between "you're" and "your"