EliteXC welterweight and former Team Takedown fighter Eric Bradley arrested on burglary charges
June 2, 2008 by Sam Caplan
Filed under Affliction: Day of Reckoning, Keith Jardine
We have sad news to report this afternoon, as EliteXC welterweight and former Team Takedown member Eric Bradley was arrested last Friday, according to The Progress, a paper that serves Clearfield County and the Moshannon Valley in Pennsylvania.
The report indicates that Bradley, 26, and Patrick Cummins, 27, were taken into custody Friday on charges of criminal conspiracy to commit burglary, burglary, criminal trespass, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property, loitering and prowling.
Bradley and Cummins were both arraigned with bail set for each at $50,000. They have a preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. in the Centre County Courthouse in Bellefonte, PA.
Bradley attended Penn State University, where he was a former two-time All-American wrestler and a national boxing champion in 2003. He is 2-1 in his MMA career and last fought on February 16 in Miami for EliteXC, where he recorded a unanimous decision victory over Mikey Gomez.
Up until a month ago, Bradley had also been a part of Ted Ehrhardt’s Team Takedown, a management group that recruits star athletes from the amateur wrestling circuit and puts them on salary while they learn MMA.
When contacted by FiveOuncesOfPain.com, Ehrhardt indicated that Bradley had been released from his Team Takedown contract approximately a month ago. While he declined to go into specifics, Ehrhardt did reveal that the decision was made because of personal issues that had been affecting Bradley. He did make it clear that he still believed that Bradley was a good person and that it is his hope that he’s able to turn his life around.
Pat wrested at Penn St. as well
I’m assuming this happened in or around Penn State? I miss college.
Those 2nd and 3rd paragraphs are mistakenly redundant and could be condensed to one. That aside, interesting story. I wonder wtf he was thinking?
EliteXC not paying me anuff money I bet?
Sorry bad joke.
Former wrestlers charged with burglarizing frat house
By Pete Bosak
STATE COLLEGE ? Borough police said they nabbed two men early Friday morning after they burglarized a fraternity and stole nearly $3,000 worth of items.
Two men who lived inside Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity heard noise, got descriptions of the burglars and the registration plate of a pickup truck they were loading with items, according to police.
Eric Bradley, 26, of 116 Edith St., Apt. 1, State College, and Patrick D. Cummins, 27, of 110 Mustang Trail, Reinholds, are charged with felony counts of burglary, criminal conspiracy, criminal trespass and theft. The former Penn State wrestlers were arraigned before District Judge Carmine Prestia and jailed in lieu of $50,000 cash bail each.
State College police were called to 200 E. Beaver Avenue just before 2 a.m. Friday when two men living at the fraternity heard noises and went to investigate, found previously closed doors open and saw two men outside trying to get inside vehicles parked at the house, police said in a criminal complaint.
The men went outside and, near a pickup truck, one of the men saw his own golf clubs and a gray bag, police said. The two residents confronted the burglars and suspects jumped into truck and drove off at a high rate of speed, police said.
The victims got the registration, police said.
Inside the pillowcase, which the burglars abandoned when they fled, was a Dell laptop, three BB guns and other items, police said.
Police traced the registration back to Cummins and soon located it at Bradley’s residence, police said.
“Patrick Cummins and Eric Bradley were taken into custody as they were unloading items from the Nissan,” police said in a complaint.
Both men confessed to burglarizing the fraternity, police said.
Damn, EliteXC even got the burglary stopped early.
That was Damn funny Brent.
haha, but cmon now, a frat house burglarized? i wonder if there is more to this story… i mean, stealing from frathouses is practically a sport on some campuses…
“i wonder if there is more to this story…”
Let go from his camp for “personal reasons” – resorts to looting frat house for items to fence.
You don’t have to be Scooby-Doo to see those clues.
Yeah I think Mr. Bradley have have an addiction issue… not saying for sure or to what but things seem to be pointing that way.
If Shaw is seen talking to the Police and suddenly all charges are dropped, I might become suspicious…lol
HA ! He and his whole family are asses, I know them personally!
Something sounds fishy.. Eric’s a really smart, nice guy.. Knew him growing up. We’ll see tho.
Real nice, “haha!”. Very classy of you to put down an entire family, especially when it sounds like Eric’s struggling with issues beyond his control.
Oh yeah, and way to man up and put your full name when you talk sh!t so you don’t have to answer to anyone. I know he and his brother, too, and you’re the first person I’ve heard insult their character. To each their own opinion, but not classy to insult the entire family, in my opinion.
Wow it is funny to see so many people making assumptions about a kid that they don’t even know. I have known and followed eric since 1999 and I guarantee there is more to this story, he has said himself it was a prank gone bad. I mean common he jacked some stuff from a frat at his old school, where by the way he did nothing other than create a good name for himself by overcoming some unbelievable adversity… blew out his back, was told he would never wrestle again so the very next year goes on to be a national champion boxer then wrestling at an all american level the very next year. Eric has apologized and promised to turn this negative in his life into a positive for children by speaking and presenting to children about the consequences of each decision, and that especially in his case one bad mistake can overwrite a life full of nothing but good. Eric has been a role model for me for a long time and will continue to be one for a long time, I look forward to watching him overcome this. And for his family I have known his brother for almost as long and have nothing but good things to say about him as well while my parents have known and respected his parents for a long time. Do your research before you make your decision on the quality of a person.
hey Eric is a good guy, I’m a former boxing teammate of his and this news is exremly surprizing to me. I haven’t seen him since 2003 but i have been following his csreer in the mma. Eric if you get to see this message call coach & get my #.
Any updates on Bradley?? Is he still fighting?? I heard he got out of it because the other kid he was with was responsible for most of it, but maybe thats all untrue.. anyone know whats up?