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Texas A&M freshman DE Ondario Robinson arrested on theft charges

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Texas A&M freshman defensive end Ondario Robinson was arrested by university police on Monday on a charge of theft of an item worth between $100-750, according to Brazos County jail records.

Texas A&M freshman defensive end Ondario Robinson was arrested by university police on Monday on a charge of theft of an item worth between $100-750, according to Brazos County jail records.

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COLLEGE STATION – Texas A&M freshman defensive end Ondario Robinson was arrested on Monday after university police claim he took a "bait bike" for two rides on campus, according to a probable cause statement obtained by the Chronicle.

The misdemeanor charge was for theft of an item worth between $100-750, according to Brazos County jail records. Robinson, listed as Hill-Robinson in the county justice system, posted bond of $2,000 on Monday.

According to the statement, Robinson took the bike equipped with a GPS tracking device from near the Koldus Building on the A&M campus on Monday morning, and police followed its movement to the Harrington Education Center. About an hour later Robinson came out of the building, presumably after attending class, and climbed back on the bike. He was arrested shortly after and "transported to the Brazos County Jail without incident," according to the statement.

Robinson is redshirting this season after starring at Hutto High, where he made the second team of Dave Campbell's Texas Football Super Team a year ago. Robinson was a three-star prospect by every major recruiting service.

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An A&M spokesman said Tuesday afternoon he was checking more into the matter. The Aggies (5-2, 3-1) are off this Saturday before resuming play on Oct. 28 against Mississippi State at Kyle Field.

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Brent Zwerneman is a staff writer for the Houston Chronicle covering Texas A&M athletics. He can be reached at brent.zwerneman@houstonchronicle.com. He is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and Sam Houston State University, where he played baseball.

Brent is the author of four published books about Texas A&M, three related to A&M athletics. He’s a five-time winner of APSE National Top 10 writing awards for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News, including in 2021 breaking the bombshell college football story of the decade: Texas and Oklahoma secretly planning a move to the SEC.

He netted a national APSE second-place finish for breaking the Dennis Franchione “secret newsletter” scandal in 2007, and his coverage of Texas A&M’s move to the SEC from the Big 12 also netted a third-place finish nationally in 2012.

Brent was named national beat writer of the year by the Football Writers Association of America for 2021, the first Texan to earn the honor, but he’s most proud on the sports front of earning Dayton Invitational Basketball Tournament MVP honors in 1988.

Brent met his wife, KBTX-TV news anchor Crystal Galny, in the Dixie Chicken before an A&M-Texas Tech football game in 2002, and the couple has three children: Will, Zoe and Brady.