Monday, March 19, 2007

Everybody Loves Josh



Gonzaga's Josh Heytvelt was arrested 2/9/07 in Cheney, WA and charged with felony possession of psychedelic mushrooms. SHH has received copies of letters written to Judge Michael Price of the Spokane County Superior Court in support of the suspended center. There are several letters coming from various people: aunts and uncles, his grandfather, cousins, teachers, family friends, an attorney, a detective, his high school basketball coach, a pastor, a former marine, his friend's parents, long time neighbors, a fire chief, the Assistant Director of Player Personnel for the Miami Dolphins and from Gonzaga Head Coach Mark Few. Here's an excerpt from Few's letter to Judge Price:

"Josh is a good person with a good heart and our program is willing to give him another chance to realize all his personal, academic, and athletic goals.

We are willing to do whatever we can do to help him in his developmental path toward becoming a person of character and competence. We do believe in another chance/forgiveness when someone states and demonstrates they are committed to going in the right direction."

Translation: Josh is a good basketball player and if he's not on the team next year we're screwed! Please help Judge! Here's a link to the letters via the Spokesman Review:



Update:

SHH's crack staff also located one letter to Judge Price that wasn't included with the others. This one portrays Heytvelt in a different light. This letter is from James Dixon, the scapegoat that Heytvelt fingered as the owner of the mushrooms found in the car on that fate full night in February. Here's a piece of the letter:

"Dear Judge Price,

Josh Heytvelt not only betrayed me as a friend, he also broke the unwritten code between dealers and customers. I thought we were tight. We smoked blunts together daily and talked hoops, man. One night, we ate a giant bag of shrooms and he sat in my rec room staring at a Bob Marley black light poster for like seven hours straight. He kept saying, "Dude...Bob Marley's eyes are a trip. It's like they're coming out of his head, man. And that joint he's smokin is shooting out rainbows of skittles and shit."

Man, that brings back memories. Memories that are all now crushed just like my mushroom business. Josh is a selfish, ego-driven prick that thinks he's better than everyone cause he's really tall. I hope he rots in prison like a bitch."

You know, James has a point. Heytvelt is a dirty rat. If you get caught with drugs, you man up and claim them as your own, especially when they are in the back of YOUR vehicle sticking out of an athletic bag with YOUR name and number on it. Its the code of the streets. Heytvelt's lucky that James is a harmless hippie drug dealer, not a gun-toting thug.