Former Griz Pate returns to jail

Former Griz football cornerback Jeramy Pate appeared in Missoula District Court Tuesday on charges in relation to violations of the four conditions of his probation agreement.
District Court Judge Douglas Harkin set Pate’s bail at $25,000 after prosecutors suggested that bail be raised.
Pate was convicted earlier this summer on one felony count of conspiracy to commit robbery for his involvement in a home invasion near campus in November.
Two other Griz football players were also charged with the burglary that involved eight people.
Pate received a six-year deferred sentence, meaning he would serve no jail time as long as he agreed to the conditions of an Intensive Supervision Program (ISP) under close eye of probation officers.
Included among the charges are allegations that Pate had smoked marijuana in late June in violation of an ISP Rule.

Pate’s probation officer also accused him of leaving the county without permission. Pate said he left to work on a concert at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds.
When a probation officer attempted to contact him, two coworkers told the officer he was at the Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Wash., and that there had not been a concert held at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds since Aug. 8.
“I consider Mr. Pate to be a flight risk,” Judge Harkin said, although refusing to raise bail at the prosecution’s request.
In the November burglary, Pate and teammates Greg Coleman and Qwenton Freeman – along with two other men – stormed into a house on Sixth Street East, a block away from campus, clad in ski masks and brandishing handguns, including a TEC-9 automatic pistol.
In an attempt to steal 20 pounds of marijuana, one male resident was shocked with a Taser gun and pistol whipped while a woman in the house had her mouth and hands bound in duct tape and her face shoved into a pizza on the floor.
After the male resident managed to escape out a window, he attempted to strike back at the burglars with a hammer, but they had all fled by the time he made it back inside.
Coleman was sentenced to five years in the custody of the Department of Corrections and required to attend boot camp.
Freeman was sentenced to 10 years with five deferred and was also recommended for boot camp.
The robbery was the last in a string of arrests of seven Grizzly football players that started last summer.
Pate is due to appear in court again on Tuesday, Sept. 2.
mike.gerrity@umontana.edu