Six of the 21 people charged with second-degree trespassing for illegally entering Faurot Field after the Oct. 22 MU-Nebraska football game entered guilty pleas this morning in Columbia Municipal Court, resulting in fines of $250 or 10 hours of community service.
City prosecutor Rose Wibbenmeyer reduced the original charge of first-degree trespassing to second-degree, thereby reducing the offense from a misdemeanor to an infraction.
MU police arrested the fans for violating Columbia city ordinance 16-156, which states, “A person commits the crime of trespass in the first degree if he knowingly enters unlawfully or knowingly remains unlawfully in a building or inhabitable structure or upon real property.”