A frustrating night at Jackson Rancheria Casino eventually led two former Sacramento State football players, Brendon “Bo” DeLapp and Westly Guill, to face jail time.

DeLapp pleaded guilty on Feb. 9 to felony charges of assault with a deadly weapon. Guill pleaded guilty to four felony vandalism charges. He was also charged with aiding and abetting DeLapp.

According to the case file, DeLapp and Guill were upset after losing money at the casino on Nov. 8, 2005. They began to throw rocks “from a traveling vehicle at vehicles approaching in the opposite lane” of Highway 16. The young men said that at the time, “throwing rocks at the grills of the cars was funny.”

DeLapp threw one softball-sized rock and it struck the car windshield of Parrish Compton, a Rancheria employee. The rock shattered Compton’s jawbone, crushed his larynx, knocked out two lower-front teeth and knocked him unconscious.

Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe said, “They didn’t go back and assist the victim or call 9-1-1; in fact, they continued to throw rocks.”

According to Riebe, Guill said that considerable damage must have occurred to Compton’s car when his car drove 40 feet off the road and into a fence.”

Amador County Superior Court Judge David Richmond sentenced the young men on June 5. DeLapp’s request for probation was denied, and he was sentenced to five years in a state prison.

Guill was originally sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. However, Judge Richmond delayed that sentence and required Guill to pay damages and serve one year in a county jail. He will also have to do community service, which compels him to speak with several youth groups about his actions and the consequences of bad decisions, according to the Amador Ledger Dispatch, the county’s local newspaper.

DeLapp had a prior record of conflicts. According to a letter from Galatea DeLapp, his mother, he had been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) when he was 15 years old. He was diagnosed with “a slowly and belatedly diagnosed bipolar disorder,” according to a later examination.

In her letter, his mother also reported that DeLapp had anger issues in high school that eventually led to her having to call the police to the house.

DeLapp was suspended from the Sac State football team in November 2005 for three weeks for sending out fliers “of a semi-lewd nature.” The content of the fliers were not specified.

Steve Mooshagian, the football head coach, said both players were involved in a few minor problems, which were things typical of college freshmen.

According to the case file, Guill had a more serious juvenile probation record. In January 1996, he was charged with throwing rocks at cars on a freeway onramp. He threw one of the rocks hard enough to shatter a window and covered a baby with glass. In 2002, he had to undergo six months of probation for exposing himself on a dare in high school.

As of press time, both men’s locations were unknown.

Jamie Gonzales can be reached at [email protected]