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Thursday, May 17, 2007

Understanding and Humility...

... are the two great Franciscan values that St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan university, highlights in its mission statement.




How humble does this look to you?








'University officials will wait until the federal case against [St. Bonaventure baseball] coach Larry Sudbrook is over before deciding if university sanctions are necessary.

Sister Margaret Carney, St. Bonaventure’s president, said the university wants to review all the facts in the case first. Until the federal case is resolved, Sudbrook will stay on the job as St. Bonaventure’s head baseball coach.

Sudbrook ... was arrested May 10 by officers of the Transportation Safety Administration and the FBI at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after he allegedly attempted to take a loaded Colt .357 Magnum King Cobra revolver on board an aircraft. Sudbrook pleaded innocent to the federal felony charge of attempt to or carrying a weapon or explosive on board an aircraft.

... According to his FBI arrest affidavit, Sudbrook told officers he forgot the weapon was inside his carry-on bag. The gun was in a center, zippered compartment. Sudbrook has a Pennsylvania handgun license. According to the affidavit, before moving to Bradford 13 years ago, Sudbrook had a New York state handgun license. That license is no longer in effect.

The Erie County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday that federal authorities have not referred the case to them to determine if Sudbrook should face state charges for bringing a handgun from Pennsylvania to New York.

In a statement Wednesday, Sister Carney said she and university officials met with Sudbrook Monday to discuss the incident.

“As we would expect, he continues to be fully cooperative and respectful of the university’s obvious interests and concerns,” she said. “As a personnel matter, the details of our discussions are not something we can discuss openly. What we can say is, in a case like this, our policies would guide us to withhold final judgment on sanctions pending collection of all the facts of the matter.”

A TSA security officer found the revolver in Sudbrook’s carry-on bag while passing it through an X-ray machine. According to an arrest affidavit filed by FBI Special Agent Rebecca A. Lawrey, a reload of six hollow point .357 Magnum rounds in a device called a speedloader was also found inside the bag. A speedloader enables a revolver shooter to recharge all six cylinders of a handgun quickly once it has been fired. [Can never be too careful.]


Sudbrook did not return calls to his home or office Wednesday. He is represented by defense attorney Joel Daniels of Buffalo. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 13 at 10:30 a.m. Sudbrook was released on his own recognizance pending the court appearance.

According to Special Agent Lawrey’s arrest affidavit, Sudbrook said he put the revolver in his bag May 7 while moving it from his detached garage to his home. He said he planned to secure the gun in his house, but set the bag down and forgot about the gun. [Take a look at that baby. How could you ever forget her? I mean, her and the speedloader?]

Sudbrook told the FBI he brought the bag with the gun inside to St. Bonaventure on May 8 and May 9 and then took it with him to the airport for a Bonnies baseball trip to Charlotte for a three-game series last weekend.

Mr. Daniels told the Olean Times Herald last week Sudbrook uses the bag to carry team files and other documents to work each day.

According to St. Bonaventure University policy, the use or possession of weapons on campus is prohibited other than by authorized police agencies.


UD's posted stories like this one before, about university students and professors and administrators and coaches who just can't seem to remember that they're carrying big ol' loaded guns plus plenty of ammo on campus, on airplanes... hell, just about everywhere. Sometimes their memory gets jogged by federal agents who notice the guns and ask them about them...

I dunno. A man whose memory is this weak... How good a coach can he be?