FORMER BAYLOR PLAYER'S MOTHER SAYS SHE REPORTED TEAMMATES' DRUG USE TO THE
UNIVERSITY

DALLAS - The mother of a former Baylor University basketball player
who lived with a teammate now accused of murder said she warned the
school about rampant drug use on the team, according to a published
report.

Sonya Hart, whose son Robert left the team in February, told The
Dallas Morning News in Saturday's editions that her son gave her the
names of five players who were using marijuana and drinking alcohol,
and she gave the information to the athletic department.

Her son shared an apartment with Carlton Dotson, who has been charged
in the shooting death of another former teammate, Patrick Dennehy. She
said she never heard back from the school after the drug report.

Dotson's estranged wife, Melissa Kethley, has also made claims to the
newspaper that members of the basketball team smoked pot and drank
alcohol, sometimes before practice. She also said she witnessed Dotson
fake a drug test by using urine provided by a fellow player.

A spokesman for Baylor University declined comment Friday on the drug
allegations.

Baylor head coach Dave Bliss had said Monday that, as far as he knew,
his players had no more to do with drugs "than the man in the moon."

Dotson was arrested July 21 and charged with murdering Dennehy, who
had been missing for about six weeks. His body was found a week ago in
a field near the Baylor campus, and he had been shot in the head.
Dotson has disputed police claims that he admitted shooting Dennehy in
a statement to the FBI.

Robert Hart declined to provide the newspaper with names of teammates
who used drugs, saying he didn't want to hurt his friendships with
those still at Baylor.

But he said the house he shared with Dotson was "the party
house."

"It was one big party," he said. "There was always drinking and
smoking."

Hart left the team after playing only two minutes in the first two
games of the season.

"It wasn't a good situation for me. I wasn't playing and I had
problems with my roommate," he said. "It was time for me to go."