GAINESVILLE, FL — A University of Florida football player has been kicked off the team after turning himself in on charges he used a dead woman’s credit card.
Alachua County Sheriff’s Detectives say 21-year-old Jamar Hornsby, of Jacksonville, turned himself in Friday morning.
The Gators’ safety is accused of using a credit card belonging to Ashley Slonina, a UF student killed in a motorcycle crash in October 2007.
Walk-On Football player Michael Guilford was also killed in the crash.
Alachua County Sheriff’s Sergeant Stephen Maynard says Hornsby charged nearly $3000 to the BP credit card, making 33 charges at BP stations in Gainesville and 37 in Jacksonville.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is also investigating the credit card charges.
Investigators aren’t saying how Hornsby got the card.
Hornsby played football at Sandalwood High School, he would have been a red shirt sophomore at Florida.
But on Friday Florida football coach Urban Meyer said in a statement Hornsby “is not part of our program.”
Hornsby is charged in Alachua county with Credit Card Theft and Felony Fraudulent Use of a Credit Card.
He was released on his own recognisance after a first appearance in Alachua Court Friday morning.
Hornsby’s attorney Huntley Johnson says Hornsby had a legitimate reason for using the card.
“He’s upset, he doesn’t think he did anything wrong, I don’t think he did anything wrong,” says Johnson.
First Coast News talked with Hornsby’s mother Friday who said she did not want to comment on the advice of her attorney.
This is Hornsby’s second arrest in the last 13 months. In April of 2007 he was arrested after a fight in in Gainesville.
He was also suspended for five games last season for selling his free football tickets.
Source: FirstCoastNews.com
Well, I can hardly wait to find out the reason that using the credit card of a dead girl to charge $3,000 worth of gasoline is not “doing anything wrong”.