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| Former MLB Player Enters Guilty Plea |
| By delmarvanow.com |
| Published: 10/20/2010 |
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SALISBURY -- A former James M. Bennett baseball player drafted by the Detroit Tigers this year pleaded guilty in connection with the assault of a Salisbury University football player. On Tuesday, 18-year-old Jacob "Jake" Ross was given, during a hearing in Wicomico County Circuit Court, a six-year sentence on the charge of second-degree assault stemming from the May beating of Anthony Arellano. Ross, of Salisbury, had all but one year of the sentence suspended, and he will serve it at the Wicomico County Detention Center. "We felt that the fact was that it was unprovoked, racially motivated and the extent of the injuries, it was necessary to seek time in the department of corrections," said Elizabeth Ireland, an assistant Wicomico County state's attorney. "We respect that it was a difficult balancing by the judge due to the defendant's youth." Arellano, who was a wide receiver at SU, was outside an on-campus dormitory, talking to a female student and waiting for another friend, when he was approached by Ross and Ryan Taylor, also of Salisbury. Ross and Taylor, who did not know Arellano, were said to have made racial remarks about Arellano before jumping him. Arellano suffered bruising and hemorrhaging of the brain, a broken nose and a perforated eardrum and was in the hospital for six days, including two days in the intensive-care unit. He remains partially deaf in one ear. Read More. |
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