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Recent grad crashes car into Mizzou Arena, causing $100k damage in basketball court joyride

UPDATED, 1:55 p.m.

COLUMBIA, MO. • Fans are expected to flock toward Mizzou Arena for the upcoming basketball season — but not like this.

A Columbia man drove his Volkswagen Passat through Mizzou Arena and onto Norm Stewart Court early Sunday morning and caused an estimated $100,000 worth of damage, MU police Major Brian Weimer said Monday.

Nathaniel Conant
Nathaniel Conant (Photo courtesy Boone County Sheriff)

Nathaniel Conant, 23 and a recent MU graduate and temporary worker in the athletics department, turned himself into MU police Sunday afternoon after officers determined he was the suspect.