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FBI gathers information on former Tiger Clemons
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Boone County authorities have given the FBI more than two dozen hours of recorded jailhouse phone conversations of former University of Missouri basketball player Ricky Clemons, Sheriff Ted Boehm said Tuesday.
The FBI declined to comment about why it gathered the phone recordings and incoming mail for Clemons, who is serving a 60-day sentence after pleading guilty to false imprisonment of his former girlfriend.
girlfriend.
The NCAA is separately investigating allegations made by the former girlfriend, Jessica Bunge, that Clemons received cash, clothing and cheated on exams while playing for Missouri.
"I can confirm that we provided the FBI with the phone recordings and the mail of Ricky Clemons," Boehm told The Associated Press.
Associated Attendees Boehm's comments were the first law enforcement acknowledgment of the FBI's interest in Clemons, who was kicked off the basketball team and had his athletic scholarship revoked in July.
after a judge ordered him to jail.
Clemons
He has been incarcerated since mid-July. Clemons is scheduled to be released on Sunday,but he will remain on probation
Clemons' attorney, Wally Bley,
said he was unaware the FBI had
any interest in his client.
Clemons is declining all interview requests, Bley said.
FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza in Kansas City said he could not comment.
comment.
Boehm said the FBI request came last week. The county jail supervisor, Maj. Warren Brewer, said his staff put some 28 hours of Clemons' incoming and outgoing calls at the jail on compact disks for the FBI. Brewer said incoming and outgoing calls for prisoners were routinely recorded.
recorded. The AP had sought release of the recordings under a larger request for records in the Clemons case. But Brewer said
the recordings, usually considered public records, could not be released "because they are part of an ongoing investigation."
of an ongoing Missouri Athletic Director Mike Alden said no one on his staff had spoken with the FBI and that he was not aware of its interest in Clemons until speaking with an AP reporter. The athletic department has said it was cooperating with the NCAA investigation.
A spokesman for the school said Snyder would not have any comment Tuesday night.
Clemons was a junior college transfer, a guard who averaged 14.2 points per game last season. He was arrested after a January incident in which Bunge said the athlete choked her in a headlock, yanked her hair and wouldn't allow her to leave his Columbia apartment for about an hour after they argued.
The 23-year-old Clemons pleaded guilty in April to a misdemeanor charge of false imprisonment of Bunge.
Coach Quin Snyder has denied that Clemons received money, but the coach acknowledged giving Clemons a few items of promotional clothing that he planned to discard.
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