HOUSTON – Two ex-Texas Southern basketball players have been accused of stealing $534,000 worth of jewelry from the men's basketball coach.
Jasmine Payne, 22, and Withworth Treasure, 23, had felony warrants out for their arrest on Friday.
According to Harris County court records, the two stole the jewelry from the home of TSU coach Tony B. Harvey.
The crime allegedly went down in February when the Harvey was out of town during an away game. The coach called police after finding out about the theft.
"We were in Mississippi, and my cleaning lady came into my place and recognized that my back window had been busted out, and my place was ransacked," Harvey told FOX 26 Sports.
"When I got back in town the next day, I went and did the police reports. I just so happened to call two or three jewelers at one time because I had some really high-end pieces, and I told them I had been robbed -- in case someone was going to try and sell the pieces."
"I got a call back a couple hours later, and they told me they recognized that someone tried to sell some of my jewelry back."
"When I went down there to look at the tape that Tuesday evening, I recognized two of the people that had my jewelry."
Investigators later determined the suspects, Payne and Treasure, attempted to sell at least $90,000 worth of the jewelry at a store in southwest Houston for just $3,600.
To read more on this story, see the myFOXhouston.com article here.
TSU Basketball Players Accused of Stealing from Coach: MyFoxHOUSTON.com
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