U-M wrestler pleads guilty to two counts of making Molotov cocktails
Justin Dozier
Courtesy of Washtenaw County Jail
A suspended University of Michigan wrestler pleaded guilty Wednesday to making Molotov cocktails after the NCAA national championship basketball game in April, court records indicate.
Justin Dozier, 20, pleaded guilty to two counts of explosives: possessing/manufacturing Molotov cocktails under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, which allows a judge to place a youth between 17 and 20 in prison or on probation without a conviction to avoid a criminal record.
Dozier and fellow U-M wrestler Rosario Bruno were charged in May with making Molotov cocktails the night the basketball team lost the national championship game to the University of Louisville.
According to Ann Arbor police, Dozier and Bruno made them in the early hours of April 9. The Molotov cocktails were found in the 1100 block of White Street, the scene of at least two fires after the loss.
Police arrived at the scene of a mattress fire in the 1100 block of White, extinguished it and then found a bottle with a flammable liquid inside. Police said they linked Dozier and Bruno to up to four bottles made that way, AnnArbor.com previously has reported.
Dozier’s address is listed in the block where the bottles were found and Bruno was taken to the hospital by Huron Valley Ambulance from a home on that block the same night.
Both men were indefinitely suspended from the U-M wrestling team when the charges were brought.
Bruno is set to appear in front of Judge Archie Brown July 17 for a pretrial hearing. Dozier is scheduled for sentencing on Aug. 14.
They remain free on personal recognizance bonds.
Comments
TryingToBeObjective
Sun, Jun 30, 2013 : 12:55 p.m.
This kid accepted responsibility for his actions. I hope he changes his behavior. No one is perfect. He has the opportunity to change now.
PineyWoodsGuy
Mon, Jul 1, 2013 : 6:57 a.m.
I give the young man credit for "Manning Up" to his Stupid Decision. Many of us have made Stupid Decisions when we were his age. Hope he Moves Forward from this Stupid Decision. "It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time simply because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting place from which to understand it—backwards."— Søren Kierkegaard This is commonly quoted as: "Live Life Forward; Understand it Backwards." (Kierkegaard is considered to be the first existentialist philosopher).
genetracy
Sat, Jun 29, 2013 : 5:44 p.m.
He must have learned how to make a Molotov cocktail in one of his general studies classes.
Jojo B
Sun, Jun 30, 2013 : 1:55 a.m.
"Bruno was taken to the hospital by Huron Valley Ambulance from a home on that block the same night." Apparently, you DO need a general studies class to do this.
Paul
Sun, Jun 30, 2013 : midnight
Is it that difficult to make that you need to learn how ?
TryingToBeObjective
Sat, Jun 29, 2013 : 2:56 p.m.
Well at least he didn't drag it out and play blame games like the Pioneer characters.
Ricebrnr
Sat, Jun 29, 2013 : 1:52 p.m.
Mensa candidates I'm sure...