Former Emporia State University football player Alex Otoo will serve nine months’ probation on charges that arose from an incident last year in the ESU cafeteria.
Otoo was convicted Feb. 23 of misdemeanor assault and of criminal use of a weapon.
District Court Judge Jeffry Larson sentenced Otoo to serve concurrent sentences of 30 days in the Lyon County Jail on the assault charge and six months in jail on the weapon charge. Larson then gave Otoo nine months’ probation under the supervision of court services.
Otoo must adhere to the conditions of probation, including reporting by mail and by telephone to court service officers, no drugs, no alcohol, random testing and other conditions. Arrangements will be made for cooperation from a court services officer in Virginia, where Otoo is living. If he violates conditions of probation, he can be returned to Emporia to serve the jail sentences.
Larson told Otoo that he also would be required to sign a waiver of extradition as part of the conditions.
Otoo originally was charged with one felony count of aggravated assault as a result of an incident in which he was accused of threatening a female cafeteria worker at ESU.
The incident allegedly was a result of the worker’s refusal to allow Otoo to eat at no charge in the cafeteria. A weapons charge was added later.
After a two-day trial, jurors deliberated about two hours before bringing back guilty verdicts on the weapons charge and a lesser misdemeanor assault charge.