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Huskies star charged in hit-and-run

TOP TIGHT END IS ACCUSED OF FLEEING AFTER CRASHING TRUCK AT RETIREMENT HOME

 

By LEWIS KAMB, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER | May 4, 2001

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University of Washington football star Jerramy Stevens, who played under a cloud of suspicion because of a rape allegation last season, is in trouble again.

 

Police cited Stevens with hit-and-run and reckless driving early yesterday after the athlete allegedly smashed his pickup into a Northgate retirement center and fled the scene.

 

 

Shortly before 1 a.m., Stevens, 21, drove the red truck over shrubs and landscaping rocks, then rammed a side wall at Merrill Gardens at Northgate, 11501 15th Ave. N.E., according to a police report.

 

The truck ripped a hole in the wall and shattered a window in a bedroom where a 92-year-old woman was sleeping, managers said. The impact knocked a dresser onto the woman's bed, but she escaped injury.

 

Stevens' citation comes the same week that prosecutors charged former Husky linebacker Jeremiah Pharms with first-degree robbery, accusing him of pistol-whipping and shooting a drug dealer for his cache of marijuana.

 

Husky football coach Rick Neuheisel, who was in San Diego for a charity golf tournament yesterday, issued a statement saying he would soon call a team meeting "to discuss the importance of behavior, making good decisions and citizenship."

 

"Regarding the situation with Jerramy Stevens," the statement added, "he will be dealt with according to my policies that I set forth for our student athletes."

 

A witness told police Stevens fell twice trying to free the pickup, eventually using books for leverage under its tires.

 

Richard Stephens, a 72-year-old Merrill Gardens resident who lives directly above the woman's apartment, said he called 911 while watching the driver scurrying to flee.

 

"I thought he was injured at first, then I thought he was drunk because he fell down a couple of times," Stephens said.

 

Stephens jotted down the license plate number and described the driver for police. About 1 1/2 hours later, officers spotted the truck a quarter-mile away -- parked outside a home on Roosevelt Way Northeast, where Stevens lives with several other Husky football players.

 

The truck had a flat right front tire and front-end damage, police said.

 

At the home, police questioned Stevens, who told them he "did not know who had been driving his truck," according to the accident report.

 

Officers later escorted the elderly witness, Stephens, to the Roosevelt Way home. He identified Stevens as the driver of the truck.

 

Stevens, whose license has been suspended because of an earlier traffic violation, was cited with the misdemeanor offenses and released. He could not be reached for comment yesterday.

 

His attorney, Mike Hunsinger of Seattle, said he only had time to talk briefly with Stevens about the incident yesterday. "Before I say anything at this point, I want to sit down with Jerramy and hear what he has to say," he said. "We'll decide what to do from there."

 

Police gave no indication in the accident report that drugs or alcohol were involved in the crash.

 

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