UPDATE: Texts Messages, Photos Tie Former Rutgers Players To Robberies, Reports Say

Text messages and photos of stolen drugs and cash tie former Rutgers football players to home invasions, a prosecutor told a judge, according to published reports.

Andre Boggs, 20, of Coatesville, Pa., Tejay Johnson, 23, of Egg Harbor, and Jianan Chen, 19, of New Brunswick made their initial appearance Wednesday in state Superior Court, New Brunswick, NJ.com said.

Boggs was dismissed from Rutgers University’s football team Saturday; Johnson is a former player.

Those three defendants were among ten people, including a total of seven Rutgers students, charged in two separate cases last week.

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On Wednesday, attorneys for the three young men entered not guilty pleas on their behalf, before Judge Dennis Nieves, sitting in New Brunswick, mycentraljersey.com reported.

Six of the defendants are charged in connection with what authorities describe as an unprovoked attack on a group of people on a New Brunswick street. Five defendants are charged in at least one of the three home invasion cases.

Johnson is charged in connection with both the assault on the street and all three home invasion cases, authorities have said. Boggs is charged in two of the home invasion cases, while Chen is charged in connection with one of those cases.

In court Wednesday, Middlesex County Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Kuberiet said Johnson dropped a stolen cell phone on a New Brunswick street, mycentraljersey.com reported. A fingerprint lifted from that phone helped police tie him to the case, according to published reports.

NJ.com reported that the defendants bragged about the crimes via text messages and also took photos of the stolen goods.

Boggs, Johnson and Chen were being held in the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center in North Brunswick, in lieu of bail ranging from $100,000 to $525,000.

All of the Rutgers students are now on interim suspension from the university. Of the seven students, five were football players. All have been dismissed from the team.

Nine of the defendants were taken into custody last week.

The 10th defendant, Daryl Stephenson, a former Rutgers player, turned himself in Wednesday morning, according to NJ101.5. His attorney told the radio station that his client had been in Florida when the charges were filed against him, and he said, his client denied the accusations.