Crime

College hoops player arrested in connection with kidnapping

By Crimesider Staff

June 5, 2013 / 11:45 AM EDT / CBS News

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Devonta Pollard, a basketball player at University of Alabama, is charged with conspiring to commit kidnapping. His mother, Jesse Mae Brown, allegedly picked up six-year-old Jashayla Hopson from her elementary school in Alabama and drove for hours. Brown allegedly dropped off the girl off the side of a road alone a day later in Enterprise, Miss. Details on Devonta Pollard's alleged role in the kidnapping have not been released.

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Devonta Pollard poses during a 2012 photo shoot.The college basketball star is charged in connection with the kidnapping of a six-year-old Mississippi girl.

Devonta Pollard is charged in connection with the kidnapping of a Mississippi girl.

Police said Jashayla Markiaya Hopson was picked from East Kemper Elementary school on April 30th. Her disappearance sparked an amber alert. She was found safe a day later in Enterprise, Miss.

Jesse Mae Pollard, the mother of basketball star Devonta Pollard, allegedly picked up the young girl from East Kemper Elementary school on April 30th then dropped her off the side of a road, unharmed, a day later.