Drug Charges
On February 9, 2007, Heytvelt and teammate Theo Davis, who was redshirting his freshman season due to injuries, were stopped by police in Cheney, Washington. The officers noticed that one of Heytvelt's tail lights was broken. The officers searched the car, and found what was later confirmed to be marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms. Both were arrested, and shortly thereafter indefinitely suspended from the team. Heytvelt was soon charged with felony possession of a controlled substance; under Washington law, possession of any amount of psychedelic mushrooms is a Class C felony. The arrests, the first in recent years involving Gonzaga basketball players, were heavily covered in the school's home city of Spokane, with one local TV station devoting the first 11 minutes of its Saturday evening newscast to the arrests.
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