OU recruit Jarboe was arrested for stolen gun

Oklahoma signee Josh Jarboe was arrested last week for possessing a stolen gun, according to DeKalb (Ga.) County Schools spokesman Dale Davis.

Jarboe, 18, was arrested last Thursday, accused of receiving stolen property and having a weapon on school property — both felonies — and was booked into the DeKalb County Jail along with James Davis, 17, who was arrested on similar complaints.

But details of the arrest weren’t released by Dekalb schools police until this afternoon.

According to the police report, Dekalb assistant principal Karl Moton asked one of the school’s police officers last Thursday to search Jarboe, Davis and their vehicle, a yellow Geo Storm, after watching Jarboe pull a black and silver hand gun out from underneath a spare tire cover in the back of the car.

Jarboe then stuffed the gun in the waistband of his pants, police said.

When he saw police officer J.P. Brooks approaching, Jarboe tried to hide the gun underneath the driver’s seat of the car, where the gun was eventually found, police said.

The gun — a. 380 cal. automatic pistol — was loaded, police said.

A serial number check revealed that the pistol was stolen out of nearby Clayton County, according to police.

Jarboe, out of Cedar Grove High School in Ellenwood, Ga., was rated the No. 10 high school wide receiver in the nation by the recruiting Web site Rivals.com before signing with the Sooners in February.

Jarboe announced he was going to OU over Florida, Georgia and LSU on ESPN during halftime of a high school all-star game.

Sooner coach Bob Stoops hasn’t commented on the arrest, saying last Friday that “it wouldn’t be appropriate until I knew exactly all the details and talked to the people involved over in that area.”

Under Georgia gun laws, the penalty for being convicted of bringing a gun on school property is a fine of up to $10,000 and at least two years in prison.

In addition, the Federal Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994, which applies to all public schools, mandates that any student who brings a gun to school must be expelled for at least one year.