Lazear pleads guilty

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Wheaton High football star Pat Lazear entered a guilty plea Wednesday in Montgomery County Circuit Court, admitting his role in the robbery of a Bethesda Smoothie King on March 30.

Lazear, one of five former Whitman High student-athletes accused in the case, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit robbery, a misdemeanor, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison. It is the same charge a jury found another defendant in the case, Justin Schweiger, guilty of last week.

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