USC Football: Wright avoids jail time
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By Scott Reid | sreid@scng.com | Orange County Register
USC defensive back Shareece Wright will avoid jail time after pleading no contest to disturbing the peace in San Bernardino Superior Court on Thursday in an incident at a Colton party broken up by police last Labor Day weekend.
As part of a plea agreement, Wright pled no contest to disturbing the peace, a misdemeanor, his attorney Carlos L. Juarez said. Wright will be on one-year court supervised probation, fill pay a $456 fine and perform 200 hours of community service. Upon completion of the community service the charge will be reduced to a citation and eventually removed from his record, Juarez said.
Wright was originally charged with resisting a police officer and could have faced three years in prison.
"This is a good result," Juarez said. "And a real fair result."
Wright, 21, was detained by Colton police but not arrested after he declined to leave a party at the Colton home of a Luis Alvarado, a friend of Wright's who was being deployed to Iraq with the U.S. Marines.
Colton police responding to noise complaints arrived at the party with a K9 unit, and at least one person was tasered during the incident, Juarez said.
All non-residents of the home were ordered by police to leave the home, but Wright told police he could not leave because he had been drinking and had planned to spend the night at the Alvarado home, Juarez said.
Alvarado's mother also asked police to let Wright stay at the home, Wright said. Wright, who grew up in Colton, frequently stays at the Alvarado home when he returns to the area, Juarez said.
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Scott Reid
Scott M. Reid is a sports enterprise/investigative reporter for the Orange County Register. He also covers Olympic and international sports as well as the Los Angeles' bid to host the 2024 Olympic Games. His work for the Register has led to investigations by the International Olympic Committee, the U.S. Department of Education, the California Legislature, and the national governing bodies for gymnastics and swimming. Reid's 2011 reporting on wide spread sexual abuse within USA Gymnastics and the governing body's failure to effectively address it led to Don Peters, coach of the 1984 record-setting Olympic team, being banned from the sport for life. His reporting also prompted USA Gymnastics to adopt new guidelines and policies dealing with sexual abuse. Reid's 2012 and 2013 reporting on sexual abuse within USA Swimming led to the banishment of two top level coaches. Reid has won 11 Associated Press Sports Editors awards for investigative reporting since 1999. He has also been honored by APSE for game writing, and enterprise, news, and beat reporting. He was an Investigative Reporters and Editors award finalist in 2002 and 2003. Prior to joining the Register in 1996, Reid worked for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Dallas Times Herald. He has a B.A. in the History of the Americas from the University of Washington.
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