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Saturday, May 26, 2007

Florida A&M Basketball Coach
Has to Wear One of Those
GPS Tracking System Things



Another role model from bigtime university sports bites the dust. UD's not sure how much more disillusionment she can take.

This time it's the basketball coach at basketcase university Florida A&M (there's everything wrong with this place -- its financial mismanagement is so amazing that the state legislature's talking about just shutting down the school), who seems to have had attachment issues with an old girlfriend. In pressing the charges that have the guy under arrest for stalking, she said


she and Gillespie dated from September 2004 to March 11, 2005 ... [she] has called the police on numerous occasions complaining of stalking dating back to 2005. The stalking, she said, began after she broke off their relationship. She said that Gillespie said he was getting a divorce at the time she dated him.

The complainant said she never asked that charges be filed against him in any of the previous incidents, but that she wanted the harassment to stop.

Police warned Gillespie to stop his behavior in 2005 after the woman made her original accusations. The police warned Gillespie again in March 2007 after she made more accusations.

No charges were filed, however.

The complainant said in the arrest report that she looked out the window of her place of work at about 5 p.m. Thursday and saw Gillespie driving through the parking lot, but that he did not stop or attempt to contact her.

The complainant then said she saw Gillespie's car parked behind a row of shrubs in the parking lot of her job Friday morning.

The woman decided to press charges after this latest incident, according to the arrest report.

Garrett [a policewoman] said she tried on two occasions Friday morning to reach Gillespie to get his version of this latest complaint, and he refused both opportunities, she said.

Garrett said that is when she decided to have him arrested.




UD wonders... on that financial mismanagement thing... this is from a newspaper account UD quoted in an earlier post:


'Angry state legislators called for a criminal investigation of Florida A&M University's continuing financial woes today... They said it's time to turn the books over to the attorney general's office of Florida Department of Law Enforcement.... "There could be a decision by the Legislature not to fund it," said [one legislator]. "The university would cease to exist." ... [Along with ongoing payroll discrepancies,] FAMU didn't have records for $1.8 million in athletics department collections, and university property that went missing sometimes was not reported to police agencies, the audit said.'


What about that $1.8 million? How much does it cost to stalk someone for three years ...?
Posted at: 5/26/2007 06:12:00 AM