FARMINGTON, Utah — A Weber State University football player has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and ordered to pay restitution in two separate cases.
Bryant Eteuati, 21, pleaded guilty in November to two class A misdemeanor charges for reckless endangerment and failure to remain at the scene of an accident.
Prosecutors said Eteuati was part of a group of people watching a fight on July 1 when he was attacked. They say he swerved his car into a group of people while leaving, causing injury.
In a separate case from 2006, police said Eteuati helped his friends shoplift from a store where he worked. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor communications fraud.
Second District Judge Thomas L. Kay on Thursday refused Eteuati’s request for work release to finish the semester.
“We were very disappointed with the sentence,” Eteuati’s attorney, Deven Coggins, said Friday.
Coggins said they urged the judge to allow Eteuati to complete his college education and be in a better position to pay restitution “but for whatever reason the judge felt he didn’t want to follow that.”
A Feb. 19 hearing is scheduled to determine the amount of restitution.
Prosecutors did not return a call from The Associated Press on Friday.
Eteuati, a receiver/returner, was suspended from the team for three games, then reinstated for the rest of the regular season and two playoff games.
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Information from: Standard-Examiner, http://www.standard.net
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