Second Ut Football Player Sought In Robbery

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Another Horn in trouble with the Law.

Guess Mack isn't recruiting character guys!

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Second UT football player sought in robbery

05:30 PM CDT on Thursday, August 2, 2007

By CHIP BROWN / The Dallas Morning News

chipbrown@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – Highly recruited Texas freshman defensive tackle Andre Jones is being sought in connection with the same aggravated robbery that resulted in charges being filed against former Longhorns safety Robert Joseph, according to Austin police.

Toni Chovanetz, an Austin Police Department spokesperson, said Thursday that Jones has been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon and was working with his attorney to turn himself in. Bond will be set at $40,000.

Joseph was dismissed from the Texas team and announced plans to transfer after being charged with two misdemeanor counts of burglary of a vehicle last month. He remains in the Travis County Jail on $25,000 bond after being arrested last Friday and charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon.

According to Chovanetz, Joseph and Jones entered an apartment in Southeast Austin around 2:30 p.m. last Friday with Joseph pointing a gun at the occupants, including a 14-year-old. Joseph then asked for things such as cellphones and gaming equipment.

According to Chovanetz, Jones repeated Joseph's demands and reached into his waistband for something chrome and acted as if it was a gun.

Jones, 6-5, 295-pound product of El Paso Andress, enrolled at Texas in January and went through spring drills. Jones was a Parade All-American and one of the top recruits at his position coming out of high school last season.

This seems to be happening way too often in Austin. Is it the players that are recruited or the program that they were recruited to that is at fault?