Caroline Jurevicius

#10

Position OH

Height 6-2

Year Freshman

Hometown Cleveland, Ohio

Personal
• Born Aug. 9, 2004
• Parents are Joe and Meagan
• Father, Joe, was a Super Bowl champion wide receiver with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2002
• Major is International business

Chaotic end to sentencing of man who robbed former Browns receiver Joe Jurevicius

• Updated: Mar. 07, 2019, 1:45 p.m.|

By Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com – The Cleveland Plain Dealer

My cmnt: This violent druggie, career criminal, and dangerous felon should have been locked up for good years ago. But instead he’s allowed by democrats to roam the streets and cause trauma and pain to innocent citizens to satiate their democrat-guilt for creating and allowing to continue the societal mess that leads to people becoming this dangerous, violent and deranged.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A court hearing ended in chaos Thursday as a judge sentenced a man who robbed former NFL wide receiver and Super Bowl champion Joe Jurevicius.

Robert Howse called the 43-year prison sentence handed down by a Cuyahoga County judge “bulls—t,” and members of his family screamed obscenities as sheriff’s deputies wrestled the 24-year-old Howse out of the courtroom.

One woman called Judge Nancy McDonnell a “sick b—h” and stormed out of the courtroom.

The scene was a chaotic end to a hearing where Jurevicius, a Cleveland-native returned to his hometown Browns to finish out his 11-year NFL, described how Howse terrorized him at gunpoint for 30 minutes during the September robbery.

“He terrorized me for 30 minutes,” Jurevicius said in court Thursday.

Howse pleaded guilty in January to aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery burglary and other charges in the Sept. 14 robbery of Jurevicius and another home-invasion robbery of a 70-year-old woman two days earlier.

Howse’s cousin, State Rep. Stephanie Howse (D), asked McDonnell in a letter read aloud in court to take into account that as a 4-year-old boy, Howse witnessed his 16-year-old uncle hang himself.

“Hurt people hurt people,” the letter said.

Jurevicius told McDonnell that he too had experienced trauma. He said he is diagnosed with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, and is dealing with a body battered by an 11-year NFL career. A man died in Jurevicius’s arms after he was crushed by concrete in a freak accident, and in 2003, Jurevicius and his wife lost a nine-week-old son from complications due to a premature birth.

Jurevicius, at the time a Tampa Bay Buccaneer, left his son’s hospital the night before the year’s NFC Championship game to join his team, according to a 2003 UPI article. He caught a 71-yard touchdown pass in the next day’s game that clinched a berth in Super Bowl XXXVII. Jurevicius caught four passes for 78 yards as Tampa Bay defeated the Oakland Raiders, 48-21, UPI reported.

On Sept. 14, Jurevicius said he went out to his barn to turn off the lights after his family finished dinner in his Gates Mills home and encountered an armed Howse in an event that he said changed his life.

Howse snatched the gloves that Jurevicius wore during that Super Bowl and wore them as he held the 6-feet 5-inch Jurevicius at gunpoint for more than 30 minutes as he demanded money and electronics and made Jurevicius open his safe. Howse then led Jurevicius to the home where his wife and children were, and threatened to shoot Jurevicius, he said.

Jurevicius opened the door and asked his wife to bring all the cash he could. He also offered Howse his Super Bowl ring. Prosecutors said Howse told them he rejected the ring because he would surely get caught if he tried to sell it, that he and wore the gloves so he wouldn’t leave behind fingerprints.

Jurevicius ultimately escaped by running into the house and locking the door. He said he grabbed a handgun and hid with his wife and children until police came to the house.

“He wore the damn gloves I wore in the Super Bowl while my son was fighting for his life,” Jurevicius said in court.

Jurevicius asked for McDonnell to impose the maximum possible sentence. He said that the incident made him wonder if moving his family back to Cleveland was the right decision.

“My grandmother told me a long time ago if you don’t have anything nice to say about somebody, don’t say it,” Jurevicius said. “At this point your honor, I have nothing good to say.”

In the Sept. 12 robbery, Howse broke into the home of a 70-year-old woman and hid beneath her bed until she walked into her bedroom, then jumped out and pointed a gun at her. The woman ran into the bathroom and locked the door behind her, and called 911 until police came.

Howse was wearing a GPS ankle monitor at the time of the robberies because he was on parole after serving more than five years in prison for another home invasion. In that incident, Howse held two 15-year-old boys at gunpoint, Assistant Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Elaina Thomas said.

In his own comments, Howse said he carried out the robberies to make good an a $1,500 drug debt. The dealer he owed the money to had started to threaten Howse’s life and the life of his fiancee, Howse said.

Jurevicius Family Welcomes Daughter

By – Orlando Sentinel – PUBLISHED: August 10, 2004 at 4:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 5, 2021 at 12:40 a.m

It seems as if WR Joe Jurevicius has been handed only bad news during the past year and a half, so Bucs camp was in a particularly celebratory mood with the announcement that the wide receiver’s wife, Meagan, gave birth to a healthy baby girl on Monday.

Jurevicius has been sidelined for most of the past year, first with a torn ligament in his right knee and then a herniated disk in his back that required surgery this past week. The injuries came not long after Jurevicius’ first child, Michael William, died in March 2003 from a rare neurodegenerative disease. The baby was barely two months old.

“Joe Jurevicius has had a lot happen to him in the last year, emotionally, mentally, physically, and we’ve got to be there for him now and help him through this rehab,” Bucs Coach Jon Gruden said. “It’s great to enjoy the birth of a child, and we’re excited for him. Hopefully he brings us all cigars.”

Caroline Elizabeth was born 9 pounds, 1 ounce, and 213/4 inches long.

Jurevicius is expected back in camp today to resume rehabbing.

Jurevicius has second chance to be father, football player

Joe Jurevicius kneels in the end zone before each game, writes his late son’s first initial in the turf and reminds himself how fortunate he is to have a second chance to be a father and a football player.

Nov 26, 2004 at 04:00 PM – Patriots.com

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) _ Joe Jurevicius kneels in the end zone before each game, writes his late son’s first initial in the turf and reminds himself how fortunate he is to have a second chance to be a father and a football player.

Tampa Bay’s soft-spoken receiver is back after being sidelined nearly a year by injuries. He’s excited about his 3-month-old daughter and eager to help the Buccaneers turn their season around.

“It’s very gratifying. You realize how much you love this game when you’re away from it,” Jurevicius said.

“On one hand you realize you won’t be able to play forever. On the other hand, you want to play as long as you can. When you have injury after injury, stemming from one injury, it plays with your mind.”

An extremely private guy who briefly opened his life to the public when his son was born with a neurodegenerative disease during Tampa Bay’s Super Bowl run two years ago, Jurevicius was poised to have a breakout season in 2003 before a torn knee ligament shut him down in the second game.

When he tried to come back too soon, he hurt the knee again and had surgery. Six months later, he developed a back problem that also required surgery and forced him to sit out the first six games of this season on the reserve/non-football injury list.

He never doubted he’d return and be a productive player again.

“The one thing I’ve learned is you’ve got to remain positive. Things don’t always go your way,” said Jurevicius, who adjusted his walk after knee surgery and is convinced that’s what caused the bad back.

“For whatever reason, I didn’t have a roadblock, I had a building in my path. I had to be patient. I had to work around things and stay focused on what I wanted to do _ and that was to get better and get on the field.”

The Bucs (4-6) are 3-1 since he returned, and the 29-year-old is coming off a five-catch, two-touchdown performance in a 35-3 rout of San Francisco. The TDs were his first since he scored two in last year’s season opener at Philadelphia.

He celebrated one score against the 49ers by giving the ball to an Air Force captain standing behind the end zone. He did a little jig after the other TD, but kept the ball with plans with paint it pink and give it to his daughter, Caroline, born during training camp.