SAD STORY FUTURE COLLEGE STAR GOING TO JAIL FOR HIS SR. YEAR!!!!

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Garfield Heights High School basketball star Tony Farmer is going to jail.

Farmer, sentenced to three years in prison this afternoon by Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Pamela for the kidnapping and assault of his ex-girlfriend.

Farmer, 18, turned to his attorney after the sentence was announced, collapsed backwards into the arms of a sheriff”s deputy and sank to the floor.

The judge said she will review the sentence after 180 days.
Attorney Joe Dubyak, who represents Farmer, had said prior to court today that he would for probation, but Assistant County Prosecutor Sanjeev Bhasker believes the judge will make Farmer spend time in prison.

Farmer was indicted by a grand jury on charges of kidnapping, felonious assault and robbery stemming from an altercation last April with his ex-girlfriend, Andrea Lane, in the lobby and parking lot of her apartment complex in Bedford Heights.

Much of the incident was caught on videotape inside the apartment building. Bhasker said that at one point, outside the building, Farmer dragged Lane by her hair.

Farmer was later charged with intimidation, as well, after he sent threatening phone and text messages to Lane.
farmer.JPGView full sizeGus Chan, The Plain DealerFormer Garfield Heights basketball star Tony Farmer, shown here in this February 2012 photo soaring toward the basket, was sentenced today to three years in prison for the kidnapping and assault against his ex-girlfriend.