Judge sentences former Hornet football players
January 6, 2007
Two young men, after losing some money gambling at Jackson Rancheria Casino, decided to vent their anger in a much different way. Now, they face their punishment.
Former Sacramento State football players Brendon “Bo” DeLapp and Westly Guill pleaded guilty to several felony charges, including assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm.
After exiting the casino on Nov. 8, 2005, the young men threw rocks “from a traveling vehicle at vehicles approaching in the opposite lane,” according to the case file. DeLapp and Guill thought, at the time, “throwing rocks at the grills of the cars was funny.”
One softball-sized rock, thrown by DeLapp, struck the windshield of one car and broke the jawbone of Parrish Compton, a Rancheria employee, knocking him unconscious.
DeLapp was denied probation and was sentenced to five years in a state prison on June 5, according to the Amador Ledger Dispatch.
Guill was sentenced to four years and eight months in a state prison. However, the implementation of his sentence was delayed. Amador County Superior Court Judge David Richmond ordered Guill to pay damages, serve one year in a county jail and to enter community service. Under the specifications of the community service, Guill will have to go to several youth groups to speak with students about his actions and how bad decisions can have bad consequences, according to the Amador Ledger Dispatch.
The judge ruled that Guill may have an opportunity to perform five years of felony probation, according to the Amador Ledger Dispatch.
In a letter from their defense lawyer, J. Patrick McCarthy, to Judge Richmond, McCarthy requested that the men be isolated for a period of incarceration. He was looking for the men to be sentenced to a county jail, instead of a state prison.
According to the case file, Guill has a juvenile probation record. In January of 1996, he was charged with throwing rocks at cars on a freeway onramp. One of the cars that he hit had a window shatter, “showering a baby with glass.” Also in 2002, he was ordered to six months probation for exposing himself in school.
One of the trial exhibits was a letter dated March 2006 from Galatea DeLapp, the mother of the second accused man. She explained that her son was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder when he was 15 years old. In a later examination, he had a “slowly and belatedly diagnosed bipolar disorder.”
In DeLapp’s mother’s letter, she reported that in high school, he had anger issues that had risen to the level that she had to call the police to the house.
In November 2005, DeLapp was suspended from the Sac State football team for three weeks for sending out flyers “of a semi-lewd nature.”
