Grand Jury Indicts 3 in Bias Death

A friend and two teammates of basketball star Len Bias have been indicted by a grand jury investigating the University of Maryland athlete’s cocaine-induced death, it was reported Friday.

The Washington Post, the New York Times and two Washington television stations, WRC-TV and WUSA-TV, quoted unidentified sources as saying that indictments were issued against Brian Tribble, a longtime Bias friend, and David Gregg and Terry Long, teammates who shared a dormitory suite with Bias.

The Post said Tribble was charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute PCP, possession of cocaine and possession of PCP.

Long, the Terrapins’ 22-year-old center, and Gregg, a 19-year-old forward, were charged with one count each of possession of cocaine and one each of obstruction of justice, sources said. All the charges are felonies.

The three were with Bias when he collapsed in his dormitory room on the College Park campus on June 19. He later was pronounced dead at a hospital.

The Prince George’s County grand jury ended its investigation Friday and said it had voted to return indictments, which were ordered sealed by the county prosecutor.