[Key 3:45pm Updates] Links to past scandal? Wheels for Heels – Roy waiting on facts: About which player?

Today, Roy Williams said that he’s waiting on facts before making any judgement on the whole PJ Hairston-rental-car-(or cars, plural)-situation (ABC 11). But there may yet be more to this than it seems.

Is UNC senior guard (just for clarity: basketball, not football) Leslie McDonald the latest over at the Flagship to go ‘rogue’? McDonald was stopped on Highway 64 West in Tyrrell County by the North Carolina State Highway Patrol on July 4 for speeding (79 in a 55). SFN acquired a copy of the citation from the public records in Tyrrell County. You can see the details of this citation here.

Of particular interest:

*McDonald is from Memphis and has a Tennessee driver’s license, but the Chevy Malibu he was driving is registered in the state of North Carolina. Like Hairston, McDonald was stopped while driving a car he didn’t own. So, whose car is he driving?

*The Trooper’s notes on the citation indicate the passengers said they were UNC students driving back to Chapel Hill.

*The registered owner of this car is Derrick Leon Parker, Junior, of Durham. The only other Derrick Leon Parker that could be found in Durham is apparently his father (Senior). Parker, Jr. has no criminal record per Durham County public records. But, the registered owner’s apparent Facebook page does not indicate that he attends UNC.

*SFN found a Leon Parker on LinkedIn, listed as a research assistant at UNC Chapel Hill. But, at first glimpse, this guy doesn’t look affiliated to Derrick Leon Parker.

*Derrick Leon Parker owns this house in Durham.

*So, SFN wonders: who was the other occupant in the car? If it wasn’t Parker (the registered owner), then why were these two driving this car without the registered owner with them?

*This is the Facebook page for a Leon Parker of Durham (here). Whoever this is, he is in pictures with two men who appear to be Haydn “Fats” Thomas and Tim Harrington.

*We know from the many recent media reports that Haydn “Fats” Thomas is the guy who paid for the rental Yukon that PJ Hairston was driving when he was arrested (WRAL).

*We also know from a McDonald tweet to @BRINTCITYNC that he got a phone from Fats Thomas.

"all I had to do was restore and activate it" Hmmm!

“all I had to do was restore and activate it” Hmmm!

*@BRINTCITYNC (Mirage 7.26) appears to be an associate of Tim Harrington, both connected to KISS Entertainment. We know that Harrington is an associate of Fats Thomas.

*WRAL characterized Fats Thomas this way:

[H]as a long criminal history and also left a trail of tweets detailing arrests, drugs, trips and relationships with former high-profile athletes before deleting his Twitter account July 1.

Some of the relationships with athletes from UNC, Duke and other institutions, bring into question whether he provided impermissible benefits which could result in NCAA sanctions for those programs.

*Also of interest is the relationship of Leslie McDonald, Fat Thomas and Iceberg Guards, a company Fats openly endorses. McDonald instagramed a picture of him and Iceberg Guards but that has since been deleted (here).

*There are also pictures and video floating around online of PJ Hairston underage boozing in Masonboro recently. And we’ve learned that Hairston was instructed to keep it locked up this weekend and explicitly told to go to church and do some community service. I guess shotgunning bud light in Masonboro is a little bit of community service for us ABCers.
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I don’t know what it all means but there sure seems to be a lot of smoke and as our own BJD said “If there’s one truly predictable thing in life…it’s that stupid people tend to do stupid things. Thank God for that, in the Holes’case, stupid is as stupid does.”

Here are some other resources for those interested in digging around a bit more
http://www.kissnc.com/#!gallery
http://www.youtube.com/thisiskisstv
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kissent/sets/

After more than a MONTH, one has to ask what ‘facts’ that ‘ole Roy could he be waiting to learn? If all of the facts aren’t in by now, how hard are people really looking? Why wouldn’t all of the facts be in by now? Heck, when one reads a statement like the following from Trudi Random (Miykael Faulcon’s mother), one has to wonder if ole Roy and the Flagship are working hard to manipulate the ‘facts’ to their liking before sharing the ‘facts’ with the rest of us.

“I don’t like how things are going so I am making the choice to do something about it..this is a notice that I am not going to sit back and let my son Miykael Faulcon be the fall guy..so if this means trouble for me..folks getting exposed…me losing all that I have to save him..then so be it..I am a mother who loves her kids unconditionally…I put all that I have into raising my kids and I will be damn if I let my hard work be in vain..if you want the truth ask me don’t assume…”

Maybe, just maybe, the facts that Roy seeks will also provide insight into the facts that UNC never uncovered or shared after it became public that a single UNC athlete received 93 parking tickets on FIVE DIFFERENT cars that used NINE DIFFERENT license plates!? (Click here for a reminder) Perhaps if UNC had cared more about getting to the truth of the ‘Wheels for Heels’ scandal in 2011 then this wouldn’t be happening today.

Remember, this was an obvious BASKETBALL topic even in 2011. You gotta check out this link for even more review. When you do, you will see an awful lot about UNC Basketball star, John Henson and car/ticket issues in Chapel Hill. That is the same John Henson that shows up in tons of pictures and social interactions on FaceBook and Twitter with – you guessed it – Fats Thomas.

 

BREAKING from USA Today (2:50pm)

While we were pulling together our thoughts on this Leslie McDonald situation, USA Today posted this article to further support our question of the day — About which playerS would Roy be waiting to learn facts?

Four rental vehicles that are linked to Haydn Thomas, the convicted felon who rented the sport utility vehicle that North Carolina leading scorer P.J. Hairston was driving when he was arrested last month, have received a total of nine parking citations on the university’s campus since February.

Between Feb. 22 and May 28, the nine citations were issued for four rental vehicles that either Thomas or a Catinia Farrington, a woman who shares his Durham, N.C., address, rented from the Hertz location at the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

Rental receipts obtained by USA TODAY Sports that were crossed referenced by license plate with UNC parking tickets show:

* A 2013 GMC Yukon rented by Thomas from Feb. 14 to March 3 received tickets for an expired meter on Feb. 21 and lack of a valid parking permit on Feb. 22.
* A 2012 Camaro SS rented by Thomas from March 25 to April 15 received a ticket on April 15 for lack of a valid permit.
* A 2013 Chevrolet Tahoe rented by Thomas from April 18 to May 2 received a ticket on May 1 for lack of a valid permit.
* The Camaro was rented again from April 25 to June 17 by Farrington. The Camaro received a parking ticket on May 28 for lack of a valid permit.
* A 2013 Mercedes Benz 350 rented by Thomas from May 8 to May 30 received four parking tickets, one each for an expired meter on May 22 and 23 and one each for lacking a valid permit on May 23 and May 28.

[snip]

Between Feb. 14 and June 25, Thomas and Farrington spent $15,020.35 on vehicle rentals from the RDU Hertz. Farrington rented the Camaro from April 25 through June 17, a period of 54 days, according to a rental receipt obtained by USA TODAY Sports. Farrington was billed $3,249.00. Thomas rented the same vehicle March 25 through April 15, incurring charges of $2468.47, according to the rental receipt.

[snip]

In two telephone interviews on July 3, Thomas, 39, told USA TODAY Sports that he did not know Hairston and that Hairston followed Thomas on Twitter only because “I promote parties.” Thomas said that he rented the car for himself and that a friend, Miykael Faulcon, borrowed the car June 5 to go to a store when the arrest occurred.

Thomas said he is a friend of Faulcon from partying with him at clubs. When asked in a phone interview Tuesday about her son’s relationship with Thomas, Faulcon’s mother, Trudy Ransom, said the two have no relationship.

“I don’t know why he says he has a relationship with my son,” Ransom said. “I won’t comment about PJ Hairston. I will let this play out in court and I hope the innocent will remain innocent.”

Thomas rented the Yukon at 10 p.m. June 2 at the airport Hertz location, and the car was returned at 10:30 p.m. June 5. Thomas was charged $1261.64, according to the receipt.

The police report revealed that a 9-millimeter handgun and a magazine with nine rounds of ammunition were seized during a traffic stop that led to Hairston’s arrest on possession of marijuana charges. Three cigars and a plastic baggie that contained a half-ounce of marijuana also were seized.

Hairston, 20, was driving Faulcon and Carlos Sanford in the silver Yukon, according to the police report. All three were arrested and charged with drug possession. Hairston also was charged with driving without a license. Hairston, Faulcon and Sanford were each released on $1,000 unsecured bonds.

Thomas said July 3 that neither the NCAA nor officials from North Carolina had reached out to him to talk with him about his relationship with Hairston. He added that he is not a University of North Carolina athletic booster nor is he connected to a sports agent.

Could you imagine how bad things would be in Chapel Hill if they weren’t so great at living up to promises they made to the NCAA about their diligence to monitor social media? And, just how awesome their compliance department would be about clamping down? Remember, this is the school where

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101 Responses to [Key 3:45pm Updates] Links to past scandal? Wheels for Heels – Roy waiting on facts: About which player?

  1. BJD95 07/11/2013 at 11:19 AM #

    Uhhh, if the experience of every athlete I’ve known is any indication. Hookers tend to be…quite unnecessary.

    I believe it was one of the crooked LA politicians about whom it was said “He’ll stay in office unless they catch him in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.” Just one of my non-sequitors. I’m bored.

  2. TheAliasTroll 07/11/2013 at 11:58 AM #

    what if this is all just a big ploy to promote icebergguards.com site

  3. TheAliasTroll 07/11/2013 at 11:59 AM #

    holeee sh!t that site is selling mouth guards for $1,500 WTF?

  4. TheAliasTroll 07/11/2013 at 12:00 PM #

    they claim their mouth guards improve reaction time if used playing basketball… and good news for all you dad’s with sons who want to be pitchers, they also claim their mouth guards increase pitching velocity.

    seems legit

  5. Pack78 07/11/2013 at 12:13 PM #

    ^^$1500?…do they come with a high-end auto rental along with a bag of ‘goodies’?

  6. MP 07/11/2013 at 12:21 PM #

    Forget hookers. I figure “Fats” and crew gotta get something in return for their investment such as… control of scoring margins.

  7. TheCOWDOG 07/11/2013 at 1:43 PM #

    ^^^^^^

    …Thank you for bringing that up Beej.

  8. JohnGalt78 07/11/2013 at 1:50 PM #

    Hookers it is. Yes, perhaps jocks don’t need to pay. But Fats would be the one paying. Fits with everything else does it not? And hookers can be male or female. We are talking about Chapel Hole ya know. And there may be a paper trail. Pimps keep records. Hookers get busted with credit card swipes and incriminating PayPal accounts all the time. Look for it. Gotta have hookers in this hot mess.

  9. Wufpacker 07/11/2013 at 2:09 PM #

    They’re “Call Girls” if they’re still alive.

    Once they’re dead, then they’re hookers…dead hookers.

    And poor ‘Dog, getting no love for the Shorties.

  10. tjfoose1 07/11/2013 at 2:11 PM #

    X

  11. tjfoose1 07/11/2013 at 2:14 PM #

    Galt,

    If you got big time college athletics in with that crowd for any length of time, sooner or later gambling is gonna come up. I’m sure a small favor from time to time is not beyond reproach.

  12. TheCOWDOG 07/11/2013 at 2:22 PM #

    Wuf …ya ever feel like your in this room that you can see someone, but they can’t see you.

    …Not that I’d necessarily blame ’em.

  13. triadwolf 07/11/2013 at 2:22 PM #

    “^^$1500?…do they come with a high-end auto rental along with a bag of ‘goodies’?”

    The mouth guard is probably made of the ‘goodies’. At least it better be at that price.

  14. Wufpacker 07/11/2013 at 2:29 PM #

    Pretty much daily ‘Dog.

    But then again, I mostly like it that way. When I get noticed it’s usually not for the best of reasons. 😀

  15. JohnGalt78 07/11/2013 at 2:33 PM #

    Foose….I get that. Probably a gambling motive….biggest NCAA no-no, by far. The Hooker angle just makes for a “juicer” story. Har Har. Scratch that….more “titillating”.

  16. wpakgirl 07/11/2013 at 2:53 PM #

    And “InsidetheCarolina Hole” said “we”(meaning NCSU fans) were not smart enough to “synthesize the flowcharts and data” well enough to come up with a theory and conclusion…

    Wonder how many “lab reports” the typical grad from UnC ever did in their college careers?

    If they did have labs at UNC Cheats, the tutor would have written the lab reports.

  17. BJD95 07/11/2013 at 4:31 PM #

    If only I had known cowdog in college, and to have benefitted from his “overflow” by association. LOL.

    Or if I had some discernable talent. But that’s hard to even imagine.

  18. highstick 07/11/2013 at 4:58 PM #

    Cowdog and Wuf…ya mean if a “tree falls in the forest and no one is there, does it make a noise”?

    Or more likely some conversations I have with my wife…”I’m talking, but she’s not listening”..

  19. highstick 07/11/2013 at 5:02 PM #

    Something about “tittilating and hookers” in the same sentence………………

    Is “tittilating similar to lactating”??? Never mind,.,,.I was exposed to too much “maternity talk” this past weekend..You guys will be proud…I bought my 7 month old granddaughter her first ball..her eyes got big and she had so much fun I may go back and buy her the pink baseball glove and baseball.

  20. PackerInRussia 07/11/2013 at 5:11 PM #

    ^Can’t start ’em too early. A little tee work, some fielding. Teaching her the curve might be hard on the wrist at that age, though so don’t overdo it.

  21. Adventuroo 07/11/2013 at 5:43 PM #

    OK….we NCSU lads (at least in the dark ages back in the 60’s) were NOT supposed to understand things like arts and words and stuff….only technical jargon.

    BUT, we like the ladies of the 60’s have been emancipated….YEA.

    Google the word, HOOKER. It is a great read. Generally speaking, the term HOOKER mean a prostitute (LIVE….even though, I am told, some ply their trade in a zombie like state).

    General Hooker is more of a “FATS” character and he was a ladies (paid or otherwise) man and drank heavily (also had GUNS) and Partied. If he had the necessary athletic skills and old Roy or Larry had been around then, he would have been highly recruited. He was a leader and had a great track record….he could have even been president….

    SO, based on the press (see, even they swayed the public 150 years ago) error in a story then “Fightin’ Joe’s” legend was born and ladies who partied and drank and engaged in scandalous behavior (for $$) were branded in the slang as “Hooker”. Even Quaint (UNC Grad) Andy Taylor had “Party Girls” in at least ONE episode….maybe more….Barney may have succumbed to their wiles….

    SO, I beg to differ that a Hooker is dead (unless you had an encounter with the ones that outwardly showed no “signs” of life.)

    Lest we not TAINT that fine profession…..which outdates any of the Professions that we hold in such high esteem today.

    The “sweet Caroline’s” of the 80’s were Party Girls who were “paid” in a currency that enhanced their self esteem and satisfied their primal urges….it was a Win-Win for them and the UNC Athletes.

    I would NOT classify them as HOOKERS….for they were lively…..nor would I put the “Prostitute” term on them. On a sad note, there are ENOUGH of the enlightened UNC crowd that show up in gaggles on Moral Mondays and believe the prattle of the rabble rousing robust reverend (Copyrighted…don’t dare use it without a reference) that THEY have PROSTITUTED their souls…..much worse than their bodies…but I digress….

    Now, speaking of “P” term….back to the discussion of PJ….

  22. bill.onthebeach 07/11/2013 at 6:09 PM #

    I know ya”ll all remember that old bar joke…

    shorter version….

    Man sees gorgeous lady in a resort hotel bar…
    Man offers 10K if she will go upstairs and spend the night with him….
    Lady … says “No… what do you think I am… (pick your own word here… from those listed above or other places…)…. ” and then smiles, flips her hair and says…. “But you can buy me a drink….”

    Man replies…. ” Ma’am…. we both know what you are… we’re just negotiating the price…”

    Now… we got
    1. some dude named “Fats”…
    2. high profile College athletes….
    3. a night club…. complete with *everything and *everybody that comes with that….
    4. guns, drugs and fancy cars….
    5. women….

    And some people can’t figure out what or who was going down….

    I’m just waiting for the new lady Chancellor to say….

    “It’s no big deal…. Boys will be boys…..”

  23. NCSU88 07/11/2013 at 6:27 PM #

    I was thinking the only thing missing was midgets, to make this a true reality show.
    Seriously though, I was reviewing the photos of the parties and there was only one white guy. How did he manage that?

  24. choppack1 07/11/2013 at 7:24 PM #

    I don’t know what is wrong with these kids… if I were in their shoes and I could have….well let’s just say it is like choosing between eating a Burger that has been dropped on the floor and stepped on vs. Kobe beef.

  25. Wufpacker 07/11/2013 at 8:40 PM #

    @ ‘stick…Your 2nd try was probably closer, but since I don’t got me one of THOSE anymore, I’ll gladly defer to your first analogy and consider myself lucky.

    Said differently, a deserted forest ain’t a bad thing 😀

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