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FARMINGTON — Former Jazzman Robert Whaley has been sentenced to serve 60 days with work release in Davis County Jail after pleading guilty in January for burglarizing a Layton Marriott Hotel in 2015.
According to court documents, surveillance footage showed Whaley entering the hotel through an employee entrance, entering a room and forcing a drawer open with cash inside. Whaley was arrested with the same shorts and shoes he was wearing in the footage. Whaley has worked at the hotel, charging documents state.
Beyond the jail sentence, the judge also ordered Whaley to serve three years of probation and pay $414.50 to the hotel and $650 fine.
Whaley played 23 games for the Utah Jazz in the 2005-2006 season after being drafted by the team in the 2005 NBA draft along with Deron Williams and C.J. Miles. The Jazz traded Whaley and Kris Humphries to the Toronto Raptors in exchange for BYU product Rafael Araujo. Whaley was released by the Raptors and never played in the NBA again.
This isn't Whaley's first stop in jail. Whaley spent nearly two years in a Michigan prison for violating probation from 2010 to 2012.
Whaley and Williams also infamously got into a fight with fans of the Denver Nuggets in Park City in 2005, where they gave false names to police who investigated. Whaley pleaded guilty to one count of giving false information to police after that incident.
