A North Dakota State University football player was kicked off the team after he was allegedly caught stealing a designer bag filled with high-end valuables, including a pricey Rolex watch, during a wild Fourth of July boat outing in Minnesota.
William Frattalone, 20, is due in court later this week on accusations he swiped a designer bag filled with more than $270,000 worth of belongings, including a $228,000 Rolex and $25,000 worth of limited edition clothing, according to a complaint filed on Aug. 27.
The disgraced cornerback is the second player to be booted from the Division 1 team in the last year, following his teammate Jaiden Pickett’s footsteps after the linebacker was sentenced to three years in prison for accidentally firing a gun inside a home while threatening another athlete last September.
Pickett and Frattalone had been involved in a “physical altercation/argument” with the other athlete, who did track at the university, before the gunfire erupted, the Brainerd Dispatch reported.
Frattalone — who hadn’t seen any playing time for the NDSU Bisons — was captured on video raving about how he wanted to fight others shortly before the shooting, which miraculously left no one injured, the outlet reported. He never faced any charges in connection to the incident.
In his latest run-in with the law, Frattalone’s alleged purse-snatching victim reported the apparent theft at the Maynards Restaurant, a bayside eatery in Excelsior, Minn.
The frantic victim explained that he was storing his bag in a secure cabin aboard his friend’s boat, but that it went missing while they were dining on land.
Frattalone, somehow, wound up on the boat as well, though it’s unclear how he knew the others on board. He tried to enter Maynards with the bag, but was stopped by employees because of their strict bag policy, according to the complaint.
The benchwarmer reportedly insisted that he just needed to bring the bag to his car, so the employees escorted him to the parking lot, where he quickly left the premises.
Later, another passenger on the boat contacted Frattalone about the missing bag. He shrugged it off and allegedly assured that his wealthy parents would “write a check for whatever was inside the bag.”
While executing a search warrant at Frattalone’s Minnesota home, authorities found the missing bag and a majority of the clothing, but the Rolex was nowhere in sight, according to the complaint.
Officers also found a video on Frattalone’s phone from July 4 showing the docked boat and the area where several bags, including the one stolen, were stowed.
NDSU Football Head coach Tim Polasek confirmed that Frattalone has since been dismissed from the team and “will not be considered to re-join the team in any fashion,” KVRR reported.
The Post reached out to the NDSU football team for comment.
Frattalone is set to appear in court on Thursday.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
