Friday, January 4, 2013
Eric Bogard was accused of shining a laser pointer at the field of play during an August St. Louis Cardinals game at Busch Stadium.
Just over four months after he was criminally charged in connection with aiming a laser pointer onto the field of play at Busch Stadium, a student at Ladue Horton Watkins High School has reportedly been sentenced in connection with the incident that also led to the resignation of a Mercy Health executive. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Eric Bogard, of Creve Coeur, entered a guilty plea December 14 to a count of disturbing the peace at an athletic event and was sentenced by a St. Louis city municipal court judge to six months probation, 20 hours of community service and ordered to pay the St. Louis Cardinals $500 in costs. The paper reports that the actual charge tied to the use of lasers was dropped. On August 6, Cardinals …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A Creve Coeur teenager is accused of pointing a laser onto the field at Busch Stadium during a Cardinals game in August.
- POLICE & FIRE
- Joe Scott
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
A Ladue Horton Watkins High School teen accused of disrupting a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game this summer with a laser pointer had his case in St. Louis city court continued Wednesday until Jan. 9, court officials report. Eric Bogard, of Creve Coeur, is accused of pointing a laser onto the field at Busch Stadium during a St. Louis Cardinals game Aug. 6. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny told security officials he spotted Bogard shining a laser onto the field, distracting Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday, who was hitting at the plate. Bogard’s attorney, Joel Schwartz of the Rosenblum, Schwartz, Rogers and Glass firm, represented him at a scheduled arraignment Wednesday morning. He was charged in St. Louis municipal court with peace …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Ladue Horton Watkins High School student Eric Bogard, of Creve Coeur, faces a pair of municipal charges in connection with an August incident at Busch Stadium during a Cardinals baseball game.
A teenager accused of shining a laser pointer onto the field during a St. Louis Cardinals game Aug. 6 had his arraignment continued until late November on Wednesday. Eric Bogard, 17, of Creve Coeur, was scheduled to appear in St. Louis municipal court on charges of peace disturbance at an athletic event and violating a city ordinance regulating possession and use of lasers. Bogard is a student at Ladue Horton Watkins High School. During an Aug. 6 game with the San Francisco, the Cardinals’ Matt Holliday stepped out of the batter’s box after spotting the green laser pointer on a Giants reliever. Cardinals manager Mike Matheny told authorities he spotted Bogard shining the laser onto the field and pointed him out to security guards. Matheny …
Bill Kowalski
8:03 pm on Thursday, February 7, 2013
This young man was arrested because: 1. He did something quite wrong at a public event which potentially could have caused physical harm to a player, and which disrupted an event which many thousands of people had paid to see, 2. When signaled from the dugout by the Cardinals coach to stop, he laughed and kept doing it, 3. Ms. Glancy was hostile and uncooperative when confronted by stadium … more ›