(Stillwater, Okla.) – Former Oklahoma State University football player Chazten Cobretti Gonzales, 23, was arraigned from the Payne County Jail Monday afternoon on a felony charge accusing him of possessing Nike shoes, a backpack and training clothing stolen from the OSU Athletic Department.
If convicted of knowingly concealing stolen property, Gonzales could be given as much as a five-year prison term and $5,000 fine, court records show. He was ordered to appear in court on Nov. 17 with an attorney.
OSU Police Officer James Davis wrote in an affidavit that on Saturday, Sept. 26, an individual entered the OSU football locker room at about 12:09 p.m. and took items from the lockers, which was recorded on video.
On the video, “you see the male enter the locker by using the pass code. You then see the male proceed down the escalator and into the locker room,” where he took a backpack and a pair of shoes, the affidavit alleged.
The suspect was identified as “a former player, Chazten Gonzales,” the affidavit alleged.
According to the reporting party, “all former players still have the code to the locker room and all the doors because they do not change the codes,” the affidavit alleged.
The OSU police officer was advised that Gonzales had been cut from the OSU football team at the end of the 2013-2014 school year and did not make the squad when he tried out again in 2015, the affidavit said.
On Sept. 28, the OSU officer met with Gonzales at the campus police station, the affidavit said.
“I asked him where he was this weekend and he stated that Saturday he was at the OSU locker room. I asked why he was there and he stated he was there to pick up some workout gear that he had left there,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“He stated he knew he took a backpack and he took that because it was raining and he did not want to get wet. He stated the backpack belonged to Martavis Jones.
“I contacted Jones and he stated that he did not want to assist in the theft of his backpack,” the OSU officer alleged in his affidavit.
Gonzales claimed that he had been given permission to be in the locker room by Coach Glass, who said that was not true, the affidavit alleged.
The OSU officer said the shoes that Gonzales was wearing during the interview “were the same shoes that were taken from the locker room,” the affidavit alleged.
“I have prior knowledge that OSU Football Equipment staff place a mark on all the shoes that they issue, in permanent marker which identified who they were issued to and what locker they belong to,” the OSU officer wrote in his affidavit.
When Gonzales was taken to his apartment, “I observed two more pairs of shoes that were issued from OSU Football,” the officer alleged in his affidavit.
“I asked Gonzales where he obtained these pairs of shoes and he started giving me names of guys that the shoes belonged to,” the officer alleged.
“Gonzales was wearing a brand-new pair of Nike shorts and I asked him if he got them from the locker room as well and he stated they were issued for practice from OSU Football.
“I took the items that were taken from Gonzales to (the reporting party) and asked him if the items I had seized from Gonzales had been taken from the locker room.
“He stated that yes all the items were issued this year, 2015, and that they had been taken from the locker room.
“I asked him if OSU made the athletes sign for the equipment and he stated yes and the equipment is property of OSU Athletics until given to the athlete at the end of the football year,” the OSU officer wrote in his affidavit.
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