Clock runs out on former SA members

By Nick Swedberg

The deadline is up for former Student Association members to turn themselves in on warrants issued for credit card fraud.

Former Director of Organizational Development Lonnie Pollard and former senators Richmond Clayton, Anthony Currie, Wendell “Danton” Floyd and Orlando Murrell, as well as two students not associated with SA, were charged with conspiracy unlawful use of a credit card, a Class 3 felony, on Jan. 10.

Lt. Jim Kayes of the DeKalb Police Department said the deadline for the former SA members and two NIU students is today.

Kayes said he is sure the students will turn themselves in. They have been cooperative, and thus were given a deadline to do so, he said.

Larry Bolles, director of the University Judicial Office, said the office is investigating the seven for possible university charges that could be brought against them. Their cases are in the judicial office, he said.

The judicial office will know if the students will face implications from the university by Monday, Bolles said.

The students allegedly found a credit card and charged $1,100 worth of merchandise at Target, 2555 Sycamore Road, on or about Dec. 30.

Pollard and Currie resigned from the SA Tuesday citing “personal reasons.” Clayton, Currie, Floyd and Murrell left the SA last semester because they missed three SA meetings, thus failing to meet the SA’s attendance requirements, according to Brooke Robinson, SA director of public affairs.