Former OSU Buckeye and Colts Quarterback Gets 11 Years In Prison

May 4, 2012   Blog Smash, Indianapolis Colts, NCAA Football SMASH, NFL SMASH, Ohio State Buckeyes   11 Comments
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Former Ohio State and Indianapolis Colts quarterback Art Schlichter has been sentenced by a federal judge to nearly 11 years in prison for scamming participants in what authorities called a million-dollar sports ticket scheme.

The 52 year old Schlichter had been down this road before, spending time in prison in Indiana related to his gambling addiction, which he claimed to have overcome. But he continued to struggle, by his own admission, and his stumbles included testing positive for cocaine use while on house arrest following his guilty plea in the ticket case.

The 127-month sentence reflects both punishment for the ticket scheme and time for violating probation from Schlichter’s 1997 forgery and theft conviction in Indiana.

One of Schlichter’s victims in the ticket scheme was the widow of a former Wendy’s Co. president, whose attorney said last year she had been ruined by Schlichter. Anita Barney’s homes are being foreclosed and her only income is from Social Security, attorney William Loveland said.

Schlicter claims to have a severe drug abuse problem and has said he is ashamed of his addiction.  Schlichter has asked for prison drug abuse counseling once he’s sentenced.

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  • Mike S

    What a waste of talent

  • Terry G

    Makes sense, he is a BUCKEYE!!! Go Blue!!!

  • Bg3dw

    buckeyes havent gotten good press in I dont know how long!

  • http://twitter.com/OriolesWorld Jamie Bozeman

    Even money that he gets a shower date.

  • http://twitter.com/TeamRushfit Tim Rice

    Just a sad story all around.

  • http://twitter.com/EA_Rice Eric Rice

    This guy is a complete schmuck 

  • http://twitter.com/AlanBradshawJr Alan Bradshaw Jr.

    As if I needed another reason to not like Ohio State……

    • http://twitter.com/golfsmash Golf Smash

      Enough with the Buckeye bashing Blue boy 

      • http://twitter.com/AlanBradshawJr Alan Bradshaw Jr.

         Yeah yeah, Ill back off a little bit

  • http://twitter.com/JonSimon2 Jon Simon

     When does this end for the Buckeyes, even the old guys are messing up

  • RobBurnette

    You know what they say – One bad Buckeye spoils the whole bunch!  Just awful.