Former La Center High School basketball player Chance Mosbypleaded not guilty Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court to chargeshe stole a Dodge Neon and damaged the landscaping at Ridgefield HighSchool.
In addition to the charges of taking a vehicle without permissionand second-degree malicious mischief, Mosby, 18, also pleaded notguilty to possession of methamphetamine, which officers allegedlyfound on him when he was booked into the Clark County Jail on Feb.27.
Trial was set for June 3.
Mosby transferred to La Center after he was kicked off theRidgefield basketball team.
In January, Ridgefield school officials banned Mosby from campusbecause of vulgar comments he posted in an Internet chat room aboutthe Ridgefield coach. A Superior Court judge backed the school'sdecision, which caused Mosby to miss a game against the Spudders.
According to police reports, the owner of the Dodge Neon said shewas at a party on Feb. 26 when she learned that Mosby and anotherperson had taken her car.
She said she called Mosby on his cell phone and told him toreturn her car, but he refused.
At 3:35 a.m. on Feb. 27, a witness spotted a truck covered in mudand wet grass. The witness gave the license plate to police, whocontacted the owner.
The truck owner said Mosby had called to ask him to pull the Neonout of the mud at the high school.
Mosby, who posted $15,000 bail, was dismissed from La Center'steam after his arrest and no longer attends classes on campus.
Vancouver defense attorney Greg Abel said Tuesday that Mosby doesa home-study course with the help of an instructor from the schooldistrict and attends high-school equivalency courses at ClarkCollege.
Mosby should graduate on time, Abel said.
"His current plan is to get (the criminal charges) behind him,one way or another, graduate and play basketball at a juniorcollege," Abel said.
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