KALAMAZOO, Mich. – Police records from Mason, Ohio shed more light on the checkered past of a Western Michigan University football player accused of assault and robbery.
Bryson White is one of two now former WMU football players accused in the incident that happened overnight on the weekend of August 26 and 27. Ronald George is also accused of assault and robbery. Both were kicked off the football team later that weekend. Both were freshmen in their first year at WMU.
Police reports obtained from the Mason Police Department show that White had several brushes with the law as a juvenile. White was a running back on the Mason High School football team.
Most recently, White was charged with Operating Under the Influence of marijuana in March of 2016. According to the report, police stopped White’s vehicle for an illegal lane change. Three friends of White were also in the vehicle and one of them was found to be carrying a defaced handgun. White admitted that the group had been smoking marijuana and was cited.
White had been accused twice of sexual assaults, but charges in both cases had never been filed. In one case in 2013, when White was 15, a 15-year-old girl accused White and two other boys of assaulting her behind a church. The prosecutor never filed charges in the case.
In 2012, when White was 14, a 14-year-old girl accused White of forcing her to perform oral sex. She later told police that the incident was consensual and she had told the story to hide from her parents that the act was consensual.
White had other run-ins over the years for minor thefts and traffic violations. No other charges had ever been filed.
