Three Bowling Green State University Falcons football players have been given a one-game suspension after being arrested and charged with the unauthorized use of a credit card.

Police, aided by Meijer store security guards, who don’t get a gun or have the authority to arrest people, but do get to wear police-like uniforms, tracked the players down after a Bowling Green woman’s credit card that had been reported stolen was used to purchase hundreds of dollars in goods at the Bowling Green Meijer store.

Police went to the instant replay from the Meijer store’s surveillance cameras which revealed Falcons wide receiver Adrian Hodges, defensive back Robert Lorenzi, and running back Willie Geter making the purchases. When one of the players returned to make an unrelated purchase a few days later, Meijer security guards followed him to the parking lot, but only recorded his license plate number, because, you know, the whole lack of a gun or ability to arrest thing.

After being arrested by the Bowling Green police, the boys admitted to the card’s use, but claimed they had found the card in the Meijer’s parking lot, which would have been a rock solid “finder keepers” defense in third grade.

Hodges and Geter have been suspended Saturday’s season opener against Pittsburgh. Lorenzi, who is already sitting out with a broken leg, will serve his suspension after being cleared to play.

The incident is only the latest of the Falcons’ off-season legal woes as seven members of the team and a former captain had already run into legal troubles resulting in charges including underage consumption of alcohol, felony drug trafficking and aggravated burglary. Defensive linemen Orlando Barrow and Jacob Hardwick were dismissed from the team in July after being arrested on home invasion charges.

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Andrian Hodges, Robert Lorenzi and Willie Geter from cstv.com.