Post by victor2111 on Oct 18, 2007 15:43:32 GMT -5
Terrelle Pryor, the country’s top ranked football player, got into some trouble over the weekend.
Jeannette High School senior Terrelle Pryor, considered by many the top all-around high school athlete in the country, was charged with disorderly conduct after an incident Saturday at Kennywood Park.
Pryor, 18, did not return a message left on his cell phone, but Jeannette football coach Ray Reitz said last night that Pryor has been instructed to refer all calls to him.
According to the account Pryor offered Reitz, Pryor was with friends at Kennywood for Phantom Fright Nights when he became involved in a verbal confrontation with another man, who Pryor said inappropriately touched a female friend.
West Mifflin Police Chief Joseph Popovich said the confrontation never became physical but confirmed it involved a female friend of Pryor’s.
Kennywood police asked Pryor to leave the park, according to Reitz, which he agreed to do, but he also demanded a refund. When police refused, Pryor called the Kennywood policeman a “rent-a-cop.”
“He was asked to leave, and he refused to leave,” Popovich said. “He was giving security a hard time with his language. He was just being mouthy.”
West Mifflin police officer James Pawling escorted Pryor out of the park. Popovich said he does not believe Pryor was handcuffed.
“Once our police department arrived, he was cooperative,” Popovich said.
Pryor was told he would receive a citation for disorderly conduct in the mail and was released. A hearing in front of District Judge Richard D. Olasz Jr. has yet to be scheduled.
Kennywood spokeswoman Mary Lou Rosemeyer did not return a call seeking comment.
Reitz said: “The Jeannette School District, the football staff and, most of all, Terrelle, does not condone what happened and wish that Terrelle would have handled things differently. In the end, though, we must all remember that this is an 18-year-old kid who made a mistake, but because of how high profile he is, it is a big deal. If you check the police blotter all over the country, a whole lot of young adults do these sort of things, but because he is Terrelle Pryor, it is a much bigger deal. We are confident that he’ll learn from this mistake.”
Pryor, considered by many experts to be the No. 1 football player in the country, recently narrowed his college choices to Ohio State, West Virginia, Florida, Penn State, Tennessee and Texas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Olbf08B2l4&mode=related&search=
Jeannette High School senior Terrelle Pryor, considered by many the top all-around high school athlete in the country, was charged with disorderly conduct after an incident Saturday at Kennywood Park.
Pryor, 18, did not return a message left on his cell phone, but Jeannette football coach Ray Reitz said last night that Pryor has been instructed to refer all calls to him.
According to the account Pryor offered Reitz, Pryor was with friends at Kennywood for Phantom Fright Nights when he became involved in a verbal confrontation with another man, who Pryor said inappropriately touched a female friend.
West Mifflin Police Chief Joseph Popovich said the confrontation never became physical but confirmed it involved a female friend of Pryor’s.
Kennywood police asked Pryor to leave the park, according to Reitz, which he agreed to do, but he also demanded a refund. When police refused, Pryor called the Kennywood policeman a “rent-a-cop.”
“He was asked to leave, and he refused to leave,” Popovich said. “He was giving security a hard time with his language. He was just being mouthy.”
West Mifflin police officer James Pawling escorted Pryor out of the park. Popovich said he does not believe Pryor was handcuffed.
“Once our police department arrived, he was cooperative,” Popovich said.
Pryor was told he would receive a citation for disorderly conduct in the mail and was released. A hearing in front of District Judge Richard D. Olasz Jr. has yet to be scheduled.
Kennywood spokeswoman Mary Lou Rosemeyer did not return a call seeking comment.
Reitz said: “The Jeannette School District, the football staff and, most of all, Terrelle, does not condone what happened and wish that Terrelle would have handled things differently. In the end, though, we must all remember that this is an 18-year-old kid who made a mistake, but because of how high profile he is, it is a big deal. If you check the police blotter all over the country, a whole lot of young adults do these sort of things, but because he is Terrelle Pryor, it is a much bigger deal. We are confident that he’ll learn from this mistake.”
Pryor, considered by many experts to be the No. 1 football player in the country, recently narrowed his college choices to Ohio State, West Virginia, Florida, Penn State, Tennessee and Texas.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Olbf08B2l4&mode=related&search=
