Let the Cam Newton jokes commence in earnest.
Early this morning we touched on Tennessee tight end Cameron Clear landing a felony theft charge Tuesday evening. While the specifics of what led to the charge weren’t available at the time, they are now.
According to the Knoxville News Sentinel, Clear’s felony charge stemmed from the theft of a laptop computer. Specifically, a MacBook Pro owned by a member of UT’s baseball team.
The Mac was stolen from pitcher Jeffrey Zajac‘s dorm room on May 19 and... well... here’s how the paper describes campus police ultimately catching up with the bumbling thief:UT police detected Tuesday someone was using the laptop to log into the university’s wireless network and caught Clear sitting at the keyboard, according to the warrant.
“Upon my arrival, I saw Mr. Clear sitting with a silver MacBook in his lap,” UT police Cpl. Ben Doty wrote. “Once he saw the officers, he closed the laptop.”
The laptop’s serial number matched the stolen MacBook, Doty wrote.
Clear remains in jail Wednesday morning in lieu of a $2,500 bond. Other than “we’re in the process of gathering the facts,” the school has yet to comment on Clear’s situation or his status with the program.
UPDATED 11:51 p.m. ET: Clear has been suspended indefinitely from the football program, a UT official has confirmed.
