DA drops charges for ex-UNC tutor in agents case

 

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – A prosecutor has dropped charges against a former UNC tutor who worked with Tar Heels football players for violating the state’s sports agent laws.
Orange County district attorney Jim Woodall said Thursday he has dropped the four counts against Jennifer Thompson because she is cooperating with the investigation. A grand jury indicted her almost exactly a year ago for providing benefits to former UNC football player Greg Little in 2010 to help Georgia-based agent Terry Watson sign Little.
Woodall says Thompson ”is more important to us as a potential witness than as a defendant.” Each count of ”athlete-agent inducement” was a low-level felony.
Her attorney, Joseph B. Cheshire V, didn’t immediately return a call from The Associated Press for comment.
Watson and three others also face charges in the case.