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12-27-2011 07:10 PM |
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Originally Posted by KevB
(Post 8239715)
IIRC, I think Pero was a guy who called the cops when he and his girlfriend were convinced someone was breaking into his house. Cops get there, are allowed to enter the house and they find drugs in the open. Turns out, he and his girlfriend were high and that's why they thought people were breaking in. I actually googled Pero a while back and found a number of Euro b'ball highlights of the guy. Turns out he played (plays?) professionally over there.
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EDIT: Found it
http://cjonline.com/stories/050997/dies.html
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Kansas State basketball players Manny Dies and Pero Vasiljevic are under investigation by the Riley County Police Department after a K-State student newspaper columnist charged they barged into his Manhattan home early Wednesday morning and threatened him.
Todd Stewart, a sports columnist for the Kansas State Collegian, asked the police to press charges of criminal trespass, criminal threat and criminal damage to property, according to a story in Thursday's Collegian.
Riley County police are investigating, but as of Thursday night, neither player had been charged with a crime.
Dies and Stewart have a history, of sorts. In a Jan. 27 column, Stewart stated: "Manny Dies is the worst player in the history of college basketball."
Stewart, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound junior from Overland Park, challenged Dies to a one-on-one contest, with Dies' full-ride scholarship on the line. Dies ignored him.
K-State coach Tom Asbury had said Stewart's Jan. 27 column was unfair and vicious, but he said by phone Thursday, "This was not how to handle a bad situation. It complicated a bad situation.
"Manny intended to get him to play one-on-one. (Stewart) did extend an invitation; that was Manny's time and place. He handled it badly, but he wanted to go get him and play a one-on-one game. He did have a little venom and anger, but you could say that about anyone in that situation."
Stewart refuted Asbury's explanation.
"It makes me ill that Asbury says they were there to play basketball at 12:30 a.m.," he said. "Neither one of them were in their right mind, and they are threatening to me and to where I live."
Dies, a 6-9, 235-pound sophomore from Wichita, was a starter at forward. Vasiljevic is a 6-10, 230-pound freshman from Australia who received a medical redshirt after a leg injury.
Asbury said he would discipline the players, who will not comment on advice of counsel.
The Associated Press gave this account of the incident as reported by Stewart and Kelley, who is also the Collegian sports editor:
Stewart was studying in his room about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday when a call came from his fraternity house, warning him that Dies and Vasiljevic had been there looking for him.
Stewart hid in a back bedroom and locked the door. Soon after that, Dies and Vasiljevic arrived.
"They just helped themselves into the apartment," Kelley said. "They started calling Todd's name and looking around for him."
When they got to the locked door in the back, Dies kicked it in, Kelley said. Stewart had escaped to the roof through the window.
"I'm out on the roof running around without a shirt or shoes, and I hear the door to Jeremy's room get broken down," Stewart said. "Then I hear Pero say, "I'm going to kill him.'
"The best I can do is jump, so I hang on to the gutter and drop to my feet. Then I just take off running."
Stewart called police from a friend's house. The police spotted Dies and Vasiljevic nearby, Kelley said, and spent about 15 minutes talking to the players.
"I don't feel comfortable with Manny running around, and I don't think Todd does, either," Kelley said Thursday night.
Asbury learned of the late-night incident from a campus police officer and called Dies and Vasiljevic into his office early Wednesday morning. "I was very adamant about the fact this was not acceptable behavior," he said.
Still, he had some empathy for Dies' plight.
"Once they (police and prosecutors) hear both sides, it will be interesting to see what course it takes," he said.
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