Yeah interesting. If only there were a reason Westbrook was in the national news in the past week and OUTSIDE people might have been looking at him. Hmmm, I wonder why.
$ooners already knew of course and covered the criminality up per usual.
More BS deflection from $ooner fans also per usual. How about just say he's a POS and should've never been offered a scholarship? Oh wait, that would require some honesty and self reflection and an indictment of your saint of a coach. Never mind.
They are roasting the reporter Cody on this in okc. This is still news and is a huge discussion everyday on the radio. I would like to know if Blinn Community College notified OU when they inquired about him. The other thing is that OU has said that they did not look him up by his "Legal" name..... what a joke
LOL...look at the very last line... I wonder how he plays football with 3 kids.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/sportsext...cle_85efbaf5-3041-536e-a6d7-d5b46dfc9081.html
The first arrest
On July 15, 2012, two officers arrived at Cameron Oaks apartment complex, responding to a neighbor’s call about a tall, slender man breaking through a window.
The report from that night states Decrick Deshawn Westbrook told an officer he came to see his child, but the mother wouldn’t let him inside. Westbrook, then 18, admitted to getting angry and breaking the window west of the apartment door.
The woman, who is two years older than Westbrook, later told police she and Westbrook began dating in 2009 but were no longer in a relationship. The woman said she didn’t want to press charges and claimed there was no physical altercation.
But on Aug. 24, the woman came into Cameron Police Department seeking a criminal trespass warrant against Westbrook, telling police she “just wanted Decrick to stay away from her and her residence.”
The woman went on to explain that the night police were called, she finally went to open the door after hearing the window break. Then, she said, Westbrook grabbed her by the arms, threw her to the ground and told her, “Don’t you ever do that s- — to me again.”
Per the report, Westbrook then went into the woman’s bedroom, grabbed a picture frame and threw it against the wall, shattering the frame.
When officers asked the woman why she hadn’t told them earlier about Westbrook allegedly putting his hands on her, she said Westbrook played football in school, and she didn’t want to mess anything up.
Cameron police eventually issued a warrant for Westbrook’s arrest on a family violence complaint. He was arrested on Aug. 29, 2012, but the Milam County District Attorney’s office rejected the charges in December, according to police documents.
Multiple attempts to reach the woman were unsuccessful. She is not named in this story to protect her privacy.
To Blinn and back
In the fall of 2012, Westbrook’s college football career began at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas, about 65 miles away from Cameron.
In addition to Westbrook’s injury, bad grades in high school routed his path through junior college, often a wild-west world for players clinging to bigger dreams.
Former Blinn coach Ronny Feldman recalls Westbrook always having a smile on his face, always happy, always friendly. Westbrook, Feldman says, is “a true junior college story.”
“Very, very lazy in the classroom,” Feldman said. “Really a sharp kid. Once he got into classes and school, he never had any problems academically whatsoever. But his tough home life back in high school, all that stuff … just a small-town deal. And maturity level just wasn’t there.”
Westbrook had a successful beginning to his college career, emerging as a deep receiving threat at Blinn from his first game. But as the season went on, Westbrook’s problems mounted. He had children back in Cameron and had been arrested for an altercation with their mother in August. Also, in an Oct. 12 Facebook post that season, Westbrook wrote he strained his knee and wasn’t able to play.
Feldman says there were days Westbrook would walk off the field, upset and unable to handle everything going on. Eventually, Feldman said Westbrook came to him with a decision.
Coach, I just can’t do it. I got to go home.
From this point, former coaches paint a fuzzy timeline.
Rhoades, Westbrook’s high school coach, said Westbrook returned to Cameron after leaving Blinn. That, Rhoades said, “was probably part of his downfall freshman year.”
“I was really kind of disappointed in him,” Rhoades said. “I felt like he had a lot of God-given ability. At that point in his life, I felt like he was almost throwing it away.”
Westbrook has said in interviews this season he left Blinn to be a better father. Last season, he said he took a year off because of “an academic issue.”
Feldman says he didn’t give up on Westbrook and tried to get him back to Blinn the next semester.
“He wasn’t a bad guy,” Feldman said. “He just wasn’t a very mature person, and nobody helped lead him.”
Feldman also said he was aware Westbrook had legal issues.
“I don’t remember all the details, and it’s not really any of my business one way or the other,” he said.
Westbrook did not play the 2013 season, and his mother said he spent that year in Cameron. Feldman resigned in November 2013.
Montgomery says Westbrook returned to Blinn “at the end of 2013,” and when Westbrook told his mother he was going back to school, Montgomery called it “the best thing he could have ever told me.”
“Let’s be honest,” Feldman said. “Eight out of 10 times that happens, the kid never comes back to school. He stays home and gets him a little job at the meat market or a place there in town and earns a minimum salary for the rest of his life. But he was so talented in football and really wanted to play, so we kind of nursed him on … I really wouldn’t have gone to those extremes, but I thought he could be saved.”
The second arrest
On April 25, 2013, police were again called to the small apartment on the edge of town.
They arrived to find the mother of Westbrook’s children, who, in a police report, told officers trouble began at the local park when the woman saw Westbrook received a text from his ex-girlfriend.
Back at the apartment, the woman told police, Westbrook grabbed an Xbox and threw it across the room, where it broke on contact. Westbrook then grabbed the woman’s wallet and several Xbox games and attempted to leave the residence. The woman grabbed Westbrook’s shirt, trying to stop him from leaving with the wallet.
The report states Westbrook responded by biting the woman on the arm and punching her in the jaw with a closed fist.
An officer noted marks on the woman’s arm that night were “definitely bite marks” and had already started to swell.
The police report states Westbrook told officers, “(the woman’s) arm swept across his teeth, and that’s how the marks got on her arm.” Westbrook also told the officer he admitted to “grabbing (the woman’s) face to push her away from him.”
After the arrest, police reports indicate he told an officer the daughter he has with the women was not his biological child. But per the report, he asked if he could get in legal trouble if he were to take the girl from the woman without her consent. The officer told Westbrook he could face kidnapping charges and advised him to consult an attorney regarding child custody matters.
Westbrook was booked in Milam County Jail on April 26, and the district attorney’s office proceeded to file misdemeanor family violence charges on May 22.
Montgomery, Westbrook’s mother, said after charges were filed, she went to talk with the woman.
“I told her, ‘You could ruin his life like that,’” Montgomery said.
Montgomery said prosecutors investigated and learned Westbrook was innocent. She said the woman went to prosecutors saying she lied about what happened.
Court documents, however, indicate the case was dismissed for “inability to locate state’s witness.”
John Redington, a Milam County assistant district attorney who worked the case, said there is no documentation of the woman responding to court correspondence. Documents indicate she was contacted by mail on May 31, 2013, but did not answer.
Westbrook and his mother appeared at an arraignment without an attorney June 12. The woman did not appear, and further attempts to contact her were unsuccessful, leading to the June 21 dismissal.
Although there was gray area in this case, Redington noted in an email that domestic violence cases are often difficult to prosecute because of poor witness contact.
Milam County victims’ assistance coordinators log any contact made with alleged victims. There is no documentation of contact with the woman after charges were filed.
A lien filed in Milam County District Court on Aug. 9, 2013, also indicated Westbrook owed the woman $8,108.13 in child support. There were no other child support liens filed in court since.
Montgomery said Westbrook and the mother aren’t involved in each other’s lives, but Montgomery speaks with the woman often and helps her care for the children in Cameron.
Saturday, Westbrook also mentioned for the first time having a third child who lives in Port Lavaca, Texas.
