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Two University of Richmond baseball players and one other student avoided jail time yesterday when they plead no contest to charges of petty larceny and trespassing. A third player will appear in court next month and be offered the same plea deal.
The players, Andrew Lowry and Jacob Mayers, a Mechanicsville native, were accused of breaking into dorm rooms during spring break and stealing electronics, including GPS systems and X-Box gaming systems. They were initially charged with felony grand larceny, but the Commonwealth Attorney decided to take the plea agreement.
“On the one hand they had no criminal record. On the other hand, they took advantage of spring break and fellow students by breaking into their rooms and stealing their property,” Deputy Commonwealth’s Attorney Collette McEachin said.
The two players and one other student were each given a 12 month suspended sentence and ordered to pay restitution. The hearing for the fourth person involved, Blake Geiger, will take place on June 8.
Following the hearing, Mayers said he hoped he would not make the same decisions in the future.
“In the future, I’d like to make better judgments and not make another mistake like that again,” he said.
