Former Oklahoma WR Trejan Bridges Pleads Not Guilty, Posts Bond

After posting $70k bond, Bridges can return home to Texas with GPS monitoring and frequent check-ins.

John E. Hoover | May 28, 2021

Former Oklahoma WR Trejan Bridges Pleads Not Guilty, Posts Bond /

Former Oklahoma wide receiver Trejan Bridges has pleaded not guilty on counts of robbery, conspiracy and aiding and abetting with a dangerous weapon with former OU running back Seth McGowan, according to arraignment documents posted Friday to the Oklahoma State Courts Network.

The news was first reported by OU Daily reporter Austin Curtright.

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Bridges appeared in Cleveland County District Court with his attorney, Steve Stice, on Thursday, May 20, and posted a $70,000 bond.

According to case documents, Bridges is allowed to return home to Texas (he’s from the Dallas suburb of Carrollton) with GPS monitoring and “frequent and multiple check-ins” with both the bondspersons and the GPS monitoring agency (prior to installation of the device on May 24), and failure to check in will result in the revocation of the bond.

The arraignment document also says Bridges is not allowed to possess or use firearms, drugs or alcohol before his appearance for a preliminary hearing conference at 9 a.m. June 29.

Stice told the OU daily he had no comment other than to say they’re “going to let the process take its course. We still need all the police reports and to get all the evidence the state says that they have.”

Bridges and McGowan were identified as suspects in an alleged robbery at the Crimson Park apartments on April 15. Bridges allegedly tried to buy marijuana from the supposed victim, and after he was denied, Bridges, McGowan and an unidentified third party allegedly went to the apartment. The victim says Bridges pistol-whipped him and threatened to kill him while the third man left with a backpack full of his property.

Bridges and McGowan were suspended from the football team the next day, and the day before police issued felony arrest warrants on May 7, the duo had already been dismissed from the team, coach Lincoln Riley said.

Published May 28, 2021

JOHN E. HOOVER

John is an award-winning journalist whose work spans five decades in Oklahoma, with multiple state, regional and national awards as a sportswriter at various newspapers. During his newspaper career, John covered the Dallas Cowboys, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma State Cowboys, the Arkansas Razorbacks and much more. In 2016, John changed careers, migrating into radio and launching a YouTube channel, and has built a successful independent media company, DanCam Media. From there, John has written under the banners of Sporting News, Sports Illustrated, Fan Nation and a handful of local and national magazines while hosting daily sports talk radio shows in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and statewide. John has also spoken on Capitol Hill in Oklahoma City in a successful effort to put more certified athletic trainers in Oklahoma public high schools. Among the dozens of awards he has won, John most cherishes his national "Beat Writer of the Year" from the Associated Press Sports Editors, Oklahoma's "Best Sports Column" from the Society of Professional Journalists, and Two "Excellence in Sports Medicine Reporting" Awards from the National Athletic Trainers Association. John holds a bachelor's degree in Mass Communications from East Central University in Ada, OK. Born and raised in North Pole, Alaska, John played football and wrote for the school paper at Ada High School in Ada, OK. He enjoys books, movies and travel, and lives in Broken Arrow, OK, with his wife and two kids.