Lawyer: Reducing charge ‘rarity’
Longhorns signee Leitao facing felony after being accused of trying to sell Xanax in high school.
— With 15 spring JENKS, OKLA. practices now behind him, Texas coach Tom Herman rattled off his list of concerns Saturday and said, “We don’t have a tight end right now.”
The Longhorns were eager to get Reese Leitao enrolled in June. With a 6-foot-4 frame, he was an all-state, two-way player at Jenks, one of the biggest high school football programs in Oklahoma.
Leitao had just one English class to finish this semester, and then the 18-year-old would come to Austin. His future was incredibly bright as a UT signee, possibly even as a starter this fall.
Instead, Leitao has become someone who every parent and every student virtually everywhere should know about for all the wrong reasons. His tale is that of how things can go so horribly wrong with one or two bad decisions.
Forget wearing burnt orange. On Tuesday, Leitao stood inside the Tulsa County Courthouse wearing a blue sports coat, dress shirt, tie, khaki pants and brown shoes. He’s now the defendant in criminal case No. CF-20171690 and faces one felony charge of drug possession with intent to distribute within 2,000 feet of a school — inside Jenks High School, actually.
“Reese stood for a lot of things that we really want to get out of our kids,” legendary Jenks coach Allan Trimble said. “It was just a big disappointment. Just a shocker, really. We had no idea.”