One year and two days after being crowned a national champion, former UW Oshkosh men’s basketball player Connor Duax was charged with two counts of theft for stealing and reselling merchandise from the university bookstore.

In May and December 2019, Duax allegedly stole books from University Books & More and sold them back during textbook buyback for $2,053.75, according to the March 18 criminal complaint.

Duax, 21, was a key player down the stretch during UWO’s championship run, averaging 15.5 points per game over the final six games — including the March 16, 2019 national title game against Swarthmore College.

He was dismissed from the basketball team after starting eight games in the beginning of the year, and, according to UWO Director of Marketing and Communications Peggy Breister, he is no longer enrolled at UWO.

If convicted, Duax could face nine months in prison and fines up to $10,000 for each misdemeanor count. However, on May 18, Duax and Winnebago County signed a Deferred Adjudication Agreement that will avoid taking the case to trial. Under the agreement, Duax must plead no contest or guilty to both counts of theft.

Additionally, for nine months he must not engage in criminal conduct, pay a total of $8,876.53 in restitution fees, provide proof of full-time employment each month, write a letter of apology and have no contact with UWO or the university bookstore.

The charges will be dismissed if Duax complies with the conditions of the agreement, but if he fails to do so, the agreement will be terminated and he will be brought before the court for sentencing.

According to court documents:

On Dec. 10, 2019, UWO Police Department Detective Mike Bartlein was informed of “suspicious activity occurring at the end of the semester book buy-back event” by Kathleen K. Kaltenbach, the manager of the UWO bookstore.

Kaltenbach told Bartlein that Duax had sold multiple copies of the same book and books from classes he wasn’t enrolled in.

Kaltenbach and bookstore staff member Nikki Stoll provided Bartlein with a printout of all the books that Duax sold during textbook buyback, which included 23 books for $799.

Of the 23 books, four were duplicates and most were for classes Duax wasn’t in, including an interim class that hadn’t been offered yet.

Additionally, the bookstore found that Duax only purchased one book from the bookstore during the Fall 2019 semester.

Bartlein received documents from the May 2019 textbook buyback, which showed that Duax had sold 26 books for $1,254.

In reviewing the books sold in May, Bartlein found that the books sold did not match any of the classes Duax had enrolled in.

Kaltenbach told Bartlein that an audit of the books Duax sold during the textbook buyback corresponded to an inventory shortage at the UWO bookstore.

Afterward, Kaltenbach provided Bartlein with a record of Duax’s Spring and Fall 2018 textbook buyback transactions, “which raised similar concerns.”

On Dec. 11, 2019, Bartlein met with Duax at the UWOPD headquarters. During the meeting, Bartlein told Duax that he knew about the books returned during the December buyback.

He asked Duax if he had sold all of the books in his possession. Duax replied that he returned the books for someone else and did not have any more books.

Bartlein asked Duax why he was selling stolen books to the bookstore. Duax said he met someone named “Jacob” his freshman year and that “Jacob” runs a scheme where he receives stolen books and has students sell them back for him.

Duax told Bartlein that after he sold the books “Jacob” paid him $50. In addition, Duax said he thought “Jacob’s” last name started with an “L,” and that he usually communicated with “Jacob” via text messages.

When Bartlein asked to see the text messages, Duax replied that “Jacob” makes him erase the messages.

Bartlein then asked if video footage from the bookstore would show Duax stealing books, to which Duax admitted to stealing fewer than 10 books two to three times.

Duax told Bartlein that he stole one book two to three times in May 2019, and two to three times in December 2019, adding the remaining books came from “Jacob.”

After meeting with Duax, Bartlein worked to trace the phone number that Duax had given him for “Jacob.”

Bartlein found that the number belonged to a Jacob in Duax’s hometown, who had never been enrolled at UWO.

That same night, Bartlein emailed Duax his findings and Duax admitted that he lied about “Jacob.”

Then, on Jan. 13, 2020, the bookstore told UWOPD Officer Ashley Fick that they had received a call from an anonymous male who said he found two bags of books.

Fick called the male back, and the male said he had given the books to a man from his church named “Justin.”

Fick and Sgt. Chance Duenkel eventually met with “Justin” and received the books. After reviewing the two bags of books, Fick found a piece of paper in a textbook about Charles Darwin.

The paper was an assignment, and it had the name “Connor” written across the top, along with names of known associates of Duax.

Fick then confirmed that Duax had been enrolled in the class that required the Darwin book, before receiving confirmation from the bookstore that Duax had not purchased the book.

UW Oshkosh declined to comment on the case.

Editor’s Note: Additional reporting provided by Neal Hogden

Former Texas Christian University standout and NFL quarterback Trevone Boykin is headed to prison, sentenced to three years behind bars after pleading guilty to four charges Wednesday.

In December 2019 Boykin was arrested on two misdemeanor theft charges from October, one where he was accused of duping at least two people into paying him for collegiate memorabilia he’d posted for sale on Instagram and then not delivering the merchandise and then another for staying in a hotel in Arlington where he left without paying the bill.

The assault and tampering charges are related to a family violence case from the year before that cost him his job with the Seattle Seahawks. In that case, Boykin was formally charged in September 2018 with aggravated assault for allegedly attacking his girlfriend and breaking her jaw in his home in March of that year.

Boykin was on the Seahawks practice roster at the time but was cut after the alleged assault was reported. He released a statement then saying the story was false and that he wasn’t involved in the altercation.

On Wednesday, Boykin pleaded guilty to all charges and was sentenced to three years in prison for the felonies and 180 days in the Tarrant County Jail on the misdemeanor theft cases.

“Mr. Boykin has failed to take responsibility for any of his assaultive and criminal behavior up until this point. The victim in this case sustained a long-standing relationship of abuse by Mr. Boykin and, along with our office, feels his prison sentence is vindication for what she endured and the consequences he was able to avoid in the past because of his ability on the football field,” said prosecutor Allena Bangs.

It is not yet clear if Boykin will serve the sentences concurrently or consecutively.

Boykin was arrested in 2017 in Dallas on misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and marijuana possession after he was riding in a car where the driver crashed, though the case was later dismissed. In 2016, he pleaded no contest to resisting arrest after originally facing a felony charge of assaulting an officer, stemming from an incident shortly before the 2015 Alamo Bowl in San Antonio. He was suspended for that bowl game and was sentenced to a year of deferred adjudication probation.

In 2014 Boykin was a finalist for a number of honors including the Heisman, O’Brien, Manning, Unitas and Walter Camp awards and trophies. Despite that, he was not selected in the 2016 NFL Draft and later signed with the Seahawks that summer. He went on to play in five games that season before being bumped to the practice squad in 2017.

HENRY COUNTY, Ga. — A college basketball player has been arrested and charged in connection with a homicide that occurred in Henry County earlier in the month.

Teshaun Hightower, a Lithonia native who is also guard for Tulane University’s Green Wave, was arrested on Saturday. He now faces several charges including two counts each of murder, aggravated assault, possession of a firearm or knife during the commission or attempt to commit certain felonies and battery.

The arrest is in connection with an incident that happened on Spindletop Way near Stockbridge on April 8. Records indicate authorities have also made at least four other arrests in relation to the crime including Jeffery Hightower,  Tyreek Farmer, Tobias Gresham and Antonie Gresham.

A sixth person listed by authorities previously, Kelvonie Burney, is not listed as being in custody.

ESPN reports that Hightower was the Green Wave’s leading scorer in the 2019-2020 season. He also played 29 games and made 17 starts at the University of Georgia from 2017 to 2019.

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A former standout. East St. Louis athlete has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the shooting death of a Belleville woman on April 20.

Kraig T. Appleton is being held on $1 million bond at the St. Clair County Jail on charges he killed Kellie Ferrell, 41.

East St. Louis Police were assisted in the investigation of the shooting by Illinois State Police investigators after being called to the 2900 block of Converse Avenue at about 10:34 p.m.

Ferrell was taken to Touchette Regional Hospital, where she later died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to a release from state police Saturday.

Police are not discussing the motive or the events leading up to the shooting.

Appleton was a standout wide receiver at East St. Louis in 2009, when the Flyers won a state championship. HIs senior year, he earned all-state honors in both track and football. He also was on the school’s academic honor roll.

His 10 touchdowns and team-best 23.5 yards per catch earned him a football scholarship to the University of Wisconsin., where, as a true freshman, he made three receptions. He was suspended for an unspecified violation of team rules and disappeared from the Badgers’ roster.

In 2011, he was hospitalized after being shot multiple times in East St. Louis.

Willie Jones, an East St. Louis musician, said he kept in touch off and on with Ferrell since they attended Alta Sita Elementary School in East St. Louis together. He said he was “heartbroken” by the news of her death and remembered Ferrell as a “likeable, outgoing” person.

“She had standards at an early age,” he said. “We last waved at each other on Facebook on March 12 of last year. We both didn’t keep in touch all the way. In a Facebook post, she congratulated me on my music success. I told her to ‘let’s keep in touch.’

“When I got this devastating news, I was overwhelmed. Man, she was a nice person.”

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Investigators said a man killed his wife and mother inside a Fayette County home and then called 911 to confess.

Johnny Edwards was one of the top football players in Georgia in 2003. Now he’s in jail, charged with the murders of his wife and mother in their home over the weekend.

Investigators said Edwards called 911 Saturday afternoon.

A brief, chilling call that got straight to the point.

Operator: Fayette County 911.

Edwards: I just killed my wife and my mother.

Deputies went to the home on Coventry Court in the High Grove subdivision. They said they found Edward’s 57-year-old mother, Kathy, and 31-year-old wife, Venus Quanteh, dead inside.

Investigators said there was some kind of dispute before Edwards killed the two women. They didn’t reveal the cause of death.

“I was just shocked. Shocked, terrifying really. This neighborhood is nothing but good people, nice neighborhood. You’d wouldn’t expect nothing like that to happen,” said neighbor Brandon Belcher.

Edwards, 34, was a former star football player at Starr’s Mill High School in Fayette County, and a member of the National Society of High School Scholars.

He went on to play as a defensive back at Wake Forest University.

“With the holidays, family and everything for something like to happen. It’s terrible, really terrible,” Belcher said.

Edwards was living with his wife at his parents’ home. His father was out of town when it happened.

Former Texas Christian University standout and NFL quarterback Trevone Boykin is in the Tarrant County Jail accused of selling TCU memorabilia online but never delivering the merchandise to the buyer, according to court records.

Records from the Tarrant County Jail show Boykin was arrested this week on two charges of misdemeanor theft of property from $100 to $750. Records also show he was wanted in Arlington for misdemeanor alleged theft of service between $100 and $750 that occurred on Oct. 29.

Arlington police told NBC 5 Tuesday that Boykin checked into a hotel on North Watson Road under an alias and that a manager at the hotel “canceled the reservation due to alleged fraudulent credit card use.” The manager told police Boykin left the hotel without paying for the room, which brought about the misdemeanor theft of service charge.

An arrest warrant affidavit obtained by NBC 5 Tuesday alleges Boykin duped at least two people into paying him for collegiate memorabilia he’d posted for sale on Instagram. The document alleges one man paid $250 for a TCU jersey on Jan. 1, 2019 and another paid $315 for a TCU jersey and a ring on Jan. 9, 2019. The money was sent to Boykin’s bank account via Venmo, according to police, but the buyers said they never received the memorabilia from Boykin and that they never received a refund.

As of this writing Boykin is being held in the Tarrant County Corrections Center (Green Bay Facility) on $1,250 bond for the misdemeanors. It’s not clear if Boykin has obtained an attorney.

The former athlete is also being held on another $100,000 in bonds related to an alleged family violence case from 2018 that cost him his job with the Seattle Seahawks.

Jail records show Boykin being held on the misdemeanors as well as three other charges — aggravated assault of a family member with a weapon, tampering with a witness in a family violence case and aggravated assault causing serious bodily injury.

In September 2018 Boykin was formally charged with aggravated assault for allegedly attacking his girlfriend and breaking her jaw in his home in March of that year. Boykin was on the Seahawks practice roster at the time but was cut after the alleged assault was reported.

Boykin then released the following statement in March 2018.

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“I understand the Seahawks decision to release me. The story that was reported casts a bad light on the organization and on me. I want to be clear that the story is false. The police have taken statements from the accuser, another witness and me. All of these statements confirm that I was not involved in the physical altercation. This woman has lied about me and it has cost me my job. I know guilt by association is real. This person has fabricated a story and I am suffering the consequences. I will let the legal system run its course and I know I will be vindicated.”

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Boykin was arrested in 2017 in Dallas on misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and marijuana possession after he was riding in a car where the driver crashed, though the case was later dismissed. In 2016, he pleaded no contest to resisting arrest after originally facing a felony charge of assaulting an officer, stemming from an incident shortly before the 2015 Alamo Bowl in San Antonio. He was suspended for that bowl game and was sentenced to a year of deferred adjudication probation.

In 2014 Boykin was a finalist for a number of honors including the Heisman, O’Brien, Manning, Unitas and Walter Camp awards and trophies. Despite that, he was not selected in the 2016 NFL Draft and later signed with the Seahawks that summer. He went on to play in five games that season before being bumped to the practice squad in 2017.