A recently dismissed Rutgers football player who was charged in what authorities called a credit card fraud scheme was freed from jail Thursday.
Brendan DeVera, an 18-year old Totowa resident who played linebacker for Rutgers last season, was released on on his own recognizance on the conditions that he appear at all court proceedings, Judge Michael Dowgin ruled in a preliminary hearing at Middlesex County Superior Court.
DeVera is charged with with promoting organized street crime in the second degree, money laundering in the third degree, fraudulent use of credit cards in the third degree and with conspiracy to commit theft by deception in the third degree, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey, whose office assisted the Rutgers University Police Department in an investigation that began in the spring.