Crime & Safety
Former Kent Roosevelt Quarterback Suspended from College Football Program
Tra'Von Chapman was suspended indefinitely from the University of Pittsburgh football program after there was a confrontation with a woman he knew at a Kent apartment.
Tra'Von Chapman, 18, of Kent has been charged with assault, a first-degree misdemeanor, and unlawful restraint, a third-degree misdemeanor, according to Portage County Municipal Court records, after an altercation with a woman on Spaulding Drive April 26.
Bond was posted and Chapman was released. The former Kent Roosevelt quarterback has a pre-trial hearing scheduled for May 28.
Chapman, who graduated high school early and enrolled at Pitt in January, was visiting his father, former Kent State assistant football coach Thad Jemison, before the two were to drive to Cincinnati to see his mother, a source said in this Plain Dealer story.
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