Eight of Craig Bohl's players at NDSU subject to criminal charges

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Eight North Dakota State players charged with faking signature petitions

CBSSports.com wire reports, Sep. 7, 2012 1:09 PM ET

 

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Eight North Dakota State University football players are among 15 people who were formally charged Friday with faking petition signatures in a scandal that kept two initiatives from getting on the November ballot. The 15 are scheduled for their first court appearance Oct. 2 in Fargo, said Birch Burdick, the Cass County state's attorney. They were charged Friday with a misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.

 

Of the 15 defendants, 11 are present or former members of NDSU's football team, which is the defending NCAA Football Championship Subdivision champion. Four of the accused players are starters - running back Samuel Ojuri, offensive lineman Joshua Colville and defensive backs Marcus Williams and Brendin Pierre.

The list includes backup defensive backs Bryan Shepherd and Aireal Boyd, linebacker Antonio Rodgers and redshirt freshman wide receiver Demitrius Gray, as well as former players Joshua Gatlin, Don Carter and D.J. McNorton. Gatlin was a defensive back, Carter a linebacker and McNorton a running back.

 

NDSU Coach Craig Bohl has said the current players will not be disciplined until the criminal charges are resolved and the allegations were not considered serious enough to suspend them from the team.

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Faking signatures on a petition? Wow, this sure isn't your typical football player scandal.

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Eight North Dakota State players charged with faking signature petitions

CBSSports.com wire reports, Sep. 7, 2012 1:09 PM ET

 

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Eight North Dakota State University football players are among 15 people who were formally charged Friday with faking petition signatures in a scandal that kept two initiatives from getting on the November ballot. The 15 are scheduled for their first court appearance Oct. 2 in Fargo, said Birch Burdick, the Cass County state's attorney. They were charged Friday with a misdemeanor that carries a maximum penalty of a year in jail and a $2,000 fine.

 

Of the 15 defendants, 11 are present or former members of NDSU's football team, which is the defending NCAA Football Championship Subdivision champion. Four of the accused players are starters - running back Samuel Ojuri, offensive lineman Joshua Colville and defensive backs Marcus Williams and Brendin Pierre.

The list includes backup defensive backs Bryan Shepherd and Aireal Boyd, linebacker Antonio Rodgers and redshirt freshman wide receiver Demitrius Gray, as well as former players Joshua Gatlin, Don Carter and D.J. McNorton. Gatlin was a defensive back, Carter a linebacker and McNorton a running back.

 

NDSU Coach Craig Bohl has said the current players will not be disciplined until the criminal charges are resolved and the allegations were not considered serious enough to suspend them from the team.

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Faking signatures on a petition? Wow, this sure isn't your typical football player scandal.

Think they will get a 2 year ban?