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Former Bronco Dennis Ellis arrested

BOISE – A former Boise State football player will be arraigned today on grand theft charges.

Dennis Ellis, 23, of Boise, turned himself into the Ada County Jail yesterday after Boise Police issued a warrant for his arrest charging him with two counts of felony grand theft.

Boise Police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower told NewsChannel 7 that Ellis confessed to detectives that he stole two laptop computers from the BSU football office last year.

Hightower says the first laptop was stolen in Jan. or Feb. 2006; and the second laptop taken in Nov. 2006.

The first computer was sold to a local pawnshop, and that's where police tracked it down by its serial number. The laptop was pawned by a transient, who reportedly had no connection to Ellis.

The computer was later returned to the BSU football office. That’s where staff members discovered photos of Ellis on the computer’s hard drive.

Detectives found Ellis and interviewed him. Hightower says that’s when he confessed to stealing the laptops.

Ellis said he took the second computer and the first one was stolen from him.

Ellis was the starting defensive tackle for the Broncos this past season and just completed his senior year. He played in Boise State’s Fiesta Bowl win over Oklahoma.

He now faces up to 14 years in prison for each grand theft count.