University of Alabama freshmen basketball star Devonta Pollard and his mother were both charged with kidnapping Jashayla Hopson a 6-year-old girl from Mississippi. Pollard, his mother Jessie Mae Brown and five others involved in the Alabama kidnapping have all been charged. The kidnapping plot was thought up following a property dispute between the Pollard and Hopson families.
The federal indictment was unsealed on Wednesday ABC News reports. Federal prosecutors say that Pollard's mother was the brains behind the Alabama kidnapping scheme. If convicted Jessie Mae Brown could receive a life sentence.
Devonta Pollard and the five other kidnappers are looking at five years in jail for the kidnapping of Jashayla Hopson. Pollard was released on $10,000 bond. In addition to Brown and Pollard charges were also filed against secretaries at the 6-year-old's elementary school.
According to Yahoo News, Pollard and his mother took Hopson from her school and brought her to a hotel room. Then Jessie Mae Brown texted Jashayla's mother telling her she had the girl and demanded a ransom.
"Don't call the police," Brown texted to Hopson's mother. "I will call you later. If you call the police [you] won't see her again."
Yahoo also says that the police searched Devonta Pollard's car and found receipts from the hotel where they kept the girl and the cell phone used to text her mother.
John Dowdy an assistant U.S. attorney told the Associated Press Devonta Pollard tested positive for marijuana. Pollard's lawyer said she is ready to defend her client, who is worried for his future.
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