Buckeye Recruit Will Not Face Criminal Charges
CLEVELAND (AP) -- Authorities say Ohio State football recruit Chris Carter won't face criminal charges stemming from his arrest last week on an allegation he fondled a girl while pretending to measure her for an ROTC uniform.
Carter is a senior offensive lineman at John F. Kennedy High School in Cleveland. The 15-year-old girl told police Carter took her to a room behind the school's auditorium and tried to pull up her bra. He was arrested on suspicion of sexual imposition and spent a night in jail.
Cleveland spokeswoman Maureen Harper said in a statement Monday a full review found there wasn't enough evidence of sexual contact or conduct.
Carter's attorney Harvey Bruner says the city's conclusion verifies what he has said about there being insufficient evidence. He says Carter looks forward to attending Ohio State in the fall.
Buckeyes Ranked 10th in most 2011 Recruiting Classes
RANK SCHOOL TOTAL COMMITS 5-STAR 4-STAR 3-STAR AVG. STARS
10 23 1 14 7 3.65
Headliners: QB Braxton Miller, DT Michael Bennett
The skinny: Just as Terrelle Pryor readies for his final season in Columbus, coach Jim Tressel and the Buckeyes will be welcoming his understudy in Braxton Miller. Miller doesn't have the size of Pryor, but he does have the athleticism and can really throw the football. A bevy of terrific linemen continue Ohio State's strong defensive tradition in Michael Bennett, Kenny Hayes, and Steve Miller. The Buckeyes also landed one of the most complete corners in the country in Doran Grant. Ohio State also stole one of the best from the Sunshine State in Ryan Shazier -- one of the nation's most athletic linebackers.
The ones that got away: OG Aundrey Walker, LB Trey DePriest
Art Schlichter is in Trouble Again
One of the great quarterbacks in Ohio State history, Art Schlichter, has been in and out of prison for much of the last 30 years because of the need to feed his self-confessed gambling addiction.
In fact, he’s been to prison or jail 44 times, mostly for fraud and forgery and writing bad checks.
After he was released from prison in 2006, he vowed to a reporter that he would stay clean, and he wrote a book in 2009, called Busted: The Rise and Fall of Art Schlichter that told his tales of highs and lows and about how his gambling addiction helped ruin huge parts of his life.
Apparently, he’s back at another low spot.
According to the Columbus Dispatch, Schlichter is the target of a federal and local investigation “centering on a sports-ticket scheme that has swindled numerous people out of several million dollars.”
The big payoff was supposed to come around the Super Bowl, where Schlichter was going to sell dozens of tickets for hundreds of thousands of dollars. According to the Dispatch’s sources, though, Schlichter couldn’t deliver the tickets, meaning some of his buyers are stranded in Dallas with no way to get into the game.
Schlichter, when contacted by the paper, said he would turn himself into authorities in the near future, writing in a text message, "It will help a lot of people. This addiction is a [expletive]."
In a life gone wrong, it’s just another sad, yet entirely predictable, moment for Schlichter.
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