| | BOULDER, Colo. -- Colorado linebacker Andy Peeke has been suspended from the Insight.com Bowl for violating team rules and ethics, coach Gary Barnett said Friday.
Peeke and wide receiver John Minardi, both 20, were arrested
Dec. 11 on suspicion of stealing a woman's bicycle on campus.
According to court records, Peeke and Minardi said they thought
the bicycle belonged to a teammate and they took it to play a joke
on him. They were later released on $500 bond.
Before the bicycle arrest, Peeke was facing misdemeanor theft
charges for allegedly shoplifting from a Boulder hardware store
earlier this year. He had been granted a deferred prosecution until
April 2000.
Barnett said Peeke was suspended because he had two offenses. He
said he did not know about the first incident until reading about
the bicycle arrest.
The arrest was Minardi's first offense and he will be allowed to
travel to Tucson for the bowl game against Boston College on Dec.
31.
Barnett said he would wait for the result of the bicycle theft
case in court before deciding to take any other action.
Peeke, of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., was a special teams
standout for the Buffaloes in 1999. He made his first start at
linebacker against Baylor and had a team-high nine tackles. He
finished the season with 28 tackles. | |
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