CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES
Prosecutors have declined to file charges against a former Southern California basketball player who was arrested Sunday on suspicion of carjacking.
The district attorney’s office filed a document Tuesday that said investigators had insufficient evidence to charge Stais Boseman, 35.
Deputy Dist. Atty. James Prudhomme said police were unable to contact the alleged victim and her boyfriend, who gave police bogus phone numbers.
Prudhomme said the alleged victim was in the car with her boyfriend when Boseman allegedly jumped into the vehicle and drove off.
Prosecutors said Boseman had agreed to drop the boyfriend’s $20 debt to him if he could use the car.
Boseman played briefly for the Houston Rockets.
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