Former NFL wide receiver Bernard Berrian was at a barbecue back in April when he got an urgent email: It was his security company alerting him to the fact that a motion sensor had gone off at his locked house.
Berrian, who has a security camera installed at his residence, decided to turn the video on and check things out before calling police.
After turning the video on, Berrian was kind of shocked at what he saw: It was his former college teammate, Therrian Fontenot, who was robbing him.
The two played football together at Fresno State.
For Berrian, the most shocking part of the robbery wasn't even that Fontenot was the burglar, it was that Fontenot had actually been at the same barbecue with Berrian just a little bit earlier.
"It was crazy because we were all sitting around and he actually left from where we were at to go do it," Berrian told ABC30.com in Fresno, Calif. "Boom, motion sensor went off, I get an email, so I click on the live cam."
Berrian said that he could've actually talked to Fontenot while the burglary was happening.
"I actually watched him doing it while he was doing it," said Berrian. "I could have actually spoke to him, I got a microphone on there. I could have told him, 'I got you,' while he was doing it."
Ironically, the only reason Berrian had a security system installed at his home is because there had recently been two other burglaries at his house that police had been unable to solve.
It's not clear if Fontenot was involved with those robberies, where over $30,000 in cash was stolen, but Berrian thinks it's likely.
"He would always call me and try to ask me where I was, make sure I was out of town," Berrian said of Fontenot. "If I was home all the time, he'd blow up other friends in the crew asking them the same question, where's Bernard, how come he's not answering his phone."
Fontenot, who spent time in training camp with the Packers (2005) and Browns (2006), ended up pleading no contest to the burglary that was caught on film and will now spend six months in jail.
As for Berrian, the former Vikings and Bears receiver said that Fontenot got what was coming.
"I mean I hate seeing people go to jail and I hate seeing people get locked up but he got what he had coming to him," Berrian said.
Berrian's career spanned from 2004-11 and included an appearance in Super Bowl 41 with the Bears.
Berrian's story will probably travel fast, especially to Fontenot's other famous friends, like Chargers receiver Keenan Allen, who was recently photographed hanging out with Fontenot.
A photo posted by Therrian Fontenot (@tfont7) onJun 3, 2015 at 8:54am PDT
