NEW YORK (AP) -- Olympic gold medalist Tim Montgomery was arrested Friday on charges he was connected to a multimillion-dollar bank fraud and money laundering scheme. A grand jury indictment unsealed in New York accused the star sprinter, his gold medalist track coach, Steven Riddick, and 12 other people of being involved in a conspiracy that deposited $5 million in stolen, altered or counterfeit checks over three years. Some of the money was laundered through two businesses owned by a New York couple accused of being behind the scam, according to the indictment. Montgomery, the former 100-meter world record holder who was banned last year from track and field after being implicated in the BALCO doping scandal, surrendered to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Norfolk, Va., on Friday morning and spent the afternoon in custody. Montgomery was released on $10,000 bond Friday evening. His attorney, Robert McFarland, did not immediately return a telephone message. Investigators accused Montgomery of being a lesser player in a scheme hatched by lead defendants Douglas Shyne and Natasha Singh. Shyne and Singh are accused of setting up sham businesses to take checks stolen from banks and either alter them or make counterfeit copies. Most of the checks involved accounts at large companies that didn't immediately notice the cash missing, federal agents said. Montgomery knew the Shyne and Singh family through an acquaintance, according to the indictment. The sprinter deposited three bogus checks worth a total of $775,000, prosecutors said. He is accused of helping his coach, Riddick, deposit others worth at least at least $905,000. Prosecutors said Montgomery picked up a $20,000 fee for his role. The case has been unfolding for months. A first round of defendants were indicted in August. Riddick, a 1976 Olympic relay winner, was arrested in February while attending a track meet in Arkansas and has been free on bail since. His attorney, Bryan H. Hoss, said his client is innocent and doesn't know Shyne or Singh. "Steve Riddick is an Olympic gold medal athlete who trains world-class sprinters, and he has no association with this New York crew," Hoss said. He declined to elaborate on how the sprinter and coach, both of Virginia, came to be mixed up in the case, but said of Riddick, "He did not know that these checks were fraudulent, and we expect that proof to come out at a trial." The arrest is the latest in a series of bad twists for Montgomery. The 31-year-old runner was banned from track and field for two years by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for doping based on evidence gathered in the criminal investigation of BALCO, the Burlingame, Calif.-based lab at the center of a steroid scandal in sports. Montgomery retired in December rather than wait out the suspension. He never tested positive for drugs, and maintains he never knowingly took steroids or any other banned substances. All of Montgomery's performances were wiped off the books as of March 31, 2001, including his world record dash of 9.78 seconds in 2002. Montgomery won his gold medal in the 400-meter relay at the 2000 Olympics. Montgomery also separated from Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones, the mother of his child. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent in Charge Martin Ficke said the fraud investigation, which was unrelated to the BALCO probe, began in 2005 after a bank alerted authorities about one of the suspicious checks. Most of the other defendants in the case, a majority of whom are relatives of Singh or Shyne, have already been arrested and arraigned. Three people associated with the case have pleaded guilty, prosecutors said. A lawyer for Singh did not return a telephone call, and a lawyer for Shyne declined to discuss the case.

LONDON (AP) -- Chelsea captured its second straight Premier League title Saturday with a 3-0 victory over second-place Manchester United, which lost star striker Wayne Rooney in the second half with an injury. William Gallas scored on a header in the fifth minute, with the other goals by Joe Cole in the 61st minute and Ricardo Carvalho in the 73rd. Chelsea, which needed only a point to clinch the title, won the championship with two games left. Rooney was carried off the field with 10 minutes to go with what appeared to be a serious foot injury. He went down after being challenged by Paulo Ferreira. With the World Cup only six weeks away, the timing is bad for the English team. "He's got a heavy knock," United manager Alex Ferguson said. "We will see when we get back to Manchester. We don't want to make any opinions at this stage, but he's in the right hands with the doctors we we'll have to wait and see." Cristiano Ronaldo lost the ball just inside his own half when he was tackled by Frank Lampard and United was forced to concede a corner kick. Lampard's cross was headed on by Didier Drogba and Gallas was unmarked in front of goal. Rooney was positioned to tie it in the 25th minute when he drifted past two Chelsea tacklers. He had only goalkeeper Petr Cech to beat, but he rolled the ball well wide of the post. A minute before halftime, he forced Cech to make a blocking save with a low, right-footed shot, and then John O'Shea headed too high after Chelsea failed to clear a corner. On the second goal, Cole turned past Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic and then left Mikael Silvestre behind before racing clear to shoot between goalkeeper Edwin van Sar and the near post. Twelve minutes later, it was 3-0. Carvalho won possession to start the move and the ball went through four passes until the defender collected a diagonal pass from Cole. He was unmarked on the left side of the United area and drove home a shot from 15 yards.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) -- The Navy quarterback accused of raping a female midshipman will face a court-martial in the case, the academy announced Friday. Lamar Owens, 22, faces the court martial after a military version of a grand jury review last month. The Savannah, Ga., native led Navy's football team to an 8-4 record this season and was the team's most valuable player. He is accused of raping the 20-year-old female midshipman in the academy's dorm. All 4,000 midshipmen live in Bancroft Hall. Owens' court martial means he will remain a midshipman until the case is resolved, said academy spokeswoman Deborah Goode. "The accused and his family have been advised that it is unlikely he will graduate on time," Goode said. If convicted of rape in a court-martial, a midshipman can face life in prison, though lawyers have said that punishment would be unheard of. Along with the rape charge, Owens is accused of conduct unbecoming an officer. Naval Academy Superintendent Admiral Rodney Rempt made the decision to order a court martial. The academy released a statement that said, "The American people expect the very best of all our midshipmen. ... "As prospective Navy or Marine Corps officers, midshipmen must set the example, and accusations such as these are contrary to all the Academy works to achieve." Also Friday, the Naval Academy announced a second, unnamed midshipman would go to special court martial for charges of indecent acts, indecent assault and conduct unbecoming an officer. A special court martial is less serious than a general court martial. Penalties for a special court martial are forfeiture, fines, restrictions or reprimands. Academy officials would not elaborate on the alleged behavior that caused the special court martial.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Los Angeles Lakers' strategy against Phoenix is to pound the ball inside on offense, and slow down the Suns' running game when they have the ball.
The Lakers worked the plan to perfection for the second game in a row, taking a 99-92 victory over Phoenix on Friday night.
Kobe Bryant had only 17 points, but all five starters scored in double figures in the Lakers' well-balanced offense, and they outrebounded the smaller Suns 53-34.
Lamar Odom had 15 points and 17 rebounds, Kwame Brown had 13 points and 11 rebounds, and Luke Walton had 17 points and 10 rebounds.
"From the start of the series, we have just been playing extremely well and are moving the ball around really well," Bryant said. "We have just evolved into this from the start of the season. It has been a process.
"We are just playing so well together."
The victory gave the upstart Lakers a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven Western Conference playoff series. They beat the Suns 99-93 in Phoenix in Game 2 after losing the opener there 107-102.
Smush Parker added 18 points in the latest win, and Bryant, who went 6-of-18 from the floor, finished with seven assists and five rebounds.
"They were trying to outrun us and we are trying to pound them inside, so that is the way it's going to go," Walton said. "So far, we have come out on top in two of three. They are not going to change their style and we are not going to change ours."
The Suns' Steve Nash, reportedly to be named the league regular-season MVP, had 17 points on 7-of-16 shooting and dished off 11 assists. He also tied for his team's top rebounder, with seven, showing how weak the Suns were on the boards.
"I don't think we are believing in ourselves, and we're playing tentative," Nash said. "We gave up offensive rebounds and missed easy layups.
"We don't have the size inside to match up with them, but that doesn't mean we can't win the series."
The Lakers had 16 offensive rebounds to only three by the Suns.
"We're scrambling. Our defense is there, but second-chance points killed us tonight," said Shawn Marion, who led Phoenix with 20 points and had seven rebounds.
The game was close all the way, with the Lakers leading most of the time and the entire fourth quarter. The Suns cut it to 92-90 with 3:27 remaining, but then Walton and Parker scored to give Los Angeles a 96-90 lead with 2:20 left.
The Suns Tim Thomas left the floor late in the game with a sprained left knee, but the injury was not believed to be serious. His status for Sunday's contest was uncertain. He scored 18 points, 16 of them in the first quarter.
Bryant scored nine of his points in the fourth quarter, going 3-of-8.
Emotions flared a couple of times during the game, with some pushing and shoving after hard fouls, but no punches were thrown. The Suns' Boris Diaw was involved in both of the brief skirmishes, in the opening moment of the game, then again in the third quarter.
First, Walton clothes-lined Thomas while Thomas driving to the basket. When Thomas got off the floor, he began walking toward Walton, and players from both teams, including Diaw, began pushing from behind the two of them, with a domino effect that ended with several players in a heap.
Walton was called for a flagrant foul, and Diaw drew a technical for his role.
In the third quarter, Diaw had a shot blocked by Brown and was hanging on him when the Lakers' center tried to retrieve the ball. Brown thrust his arm up and Diaw went sprawling backward. Again, the players squared off, but the referees quickly restored order. Diaw was called for a foul, Brown a technical.
The Suns' Raja Bell was open for a 3-pointer with the third quarter ending but he hesitated and Bryant swatted the ball away to preserve the Lakers' 77-74 lead after three.
Nash was 5-of-6 from the floor and good on both 3-pointers to score 12 points in the third, and Marion had eight points. Bryant took only one shot in the quarter and made it.
Bryant had just six points in the first half on 2-of-9 shooting, and Nash was even colder, scoring only three points and missing six of his seven shots. Both Bryant and Nash did have five assists by halftime.
The Lakers were up 49-44 at the break, with both teams looking ragged in the second quarter after a crisp opening period.
Notes: The Lakers have won 11 of their last 12 at home. ... Los Angeles C Chris Mihm has aggravated his right ankle sprain and the ankle is swollen, coach Phil Jackson said. Mihm missed 17 of the last 18 regular-season games and hasn't played in the series against Phoenix.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Steve Howe, the relief pitcher whose promising career was derailed by cocaine and alcohol abuse, died Friday when his pickup truck rolled over in Coachella, Calif. He was 48.
Howe was killed at 5:55 a.m. PDT about 130 miles east of Los Angeles, said Dalyn Backes of the Riverside County coroner's office. He had been in Arizona on business and was driving back home to Valencia, Calif., business partner Judy Welp said.
Toxicology tests had not yet been performed.
The hard-throwing lefty was the 1980 NL Rookie of the Year with Los Angeles, closed out the Dodgers' 1981 World Series championship and was an All-Star the next year.
But for all of his success on the field, Howe was constantly troubled by addictions -- he was suspended seven times and became a symbol of the rampant cocaine problem that plagued baseball in the 1980s.
During the 1992 season, he became the first baseball player to be banned for life because of drugs. An arbitrator reinstated him after the season.
In recent years, he owned an energy drink company in Arizona.
"I just saw Steve last winter when his son was pitching against my son," former teammate and Angels manager Mike Scioscia said Friday night. "Everything was looking up for him and he looked great. It makes you numb when you hear about a situation like this. He had a roller-coaster ride."
Howe was 47-41 with 91 saves and a 3.03 ERA with the Dodgers, Twins, Rangers and Yankees. His final season in the majors was 1996, and the Yankees released him in June.
A moment of silence was observed at Yankee Stadium before New York played Toronto on Friday night. Howe played for the Yankees from 1991-96.
"I wish more people knew Steve Howe the way I knew him," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. "His struggles in life were well documented, but he always tried to fight through them and I will always respect that."
Two days after the Yankees let him go in 1996, Howe was arrested at a Delta Airlines terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport when a loaded .357 Magnum was detected inside his suitcase. He later pleaded guilty to gun possession and was placed on three years' probation and given 150 hours of community service.
Chicago White Sox coach Tim Raines played with Howe in that final year.
"You always get second chances -- third and fourth sometimes. And people really believed in him and that he'd eventually kick the problem. Unfortunately, it didn't happen for him," he said.
Howe tried a comeback in 1997 with Sioux Falls of the independent Northern League and retired after injuring his forearm. That August, he was critically injured in a motorcycle accident in Montana and charged with drunken driving; those charges were later dropped when prosecutors decided his blood test was improperly obtained.
"He was extremely talented, very confident on the mound and had an incredible arm," Scioscia said. "Obviously, he didn't reach his potential because of other things that crept into his life."
Said former Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda: "Steve played for me for five years and I thought the world of him."
Howe was suspended for the 1984 season by commissioner Bowie Kuhn for cocaine use. Howe was out of the majors in 1986 after a relapse the previous August with Minnesota.
Texas released him before the 1988 season because of an alcohol problem, and he did not pitch again in the big leagues until 1991.
"Howsie had some issues everybody knew about," Arizona manager Bob Melvin said in San Francisco. "Everybody who hasn't played with him didn't know what kind of teammate he was. What you hear about Steve is the drug stuff. ... He was kind of the captain of the bullpen out there."
Welp knew Howe for two years, and said he was doing well.
"His goal was to bring an all-natural energy drink to the United States," she said. "He was so giving, always trying to help people. He used to always say, 'I'm all about the underdog."'
Giants broadcaster Mike Krukow played against Howe in the NL West.
"When I heard it today, I thought 'What a life this guy had,"' Krukow said, his eyes red. "So many tragic things happened to him in a young 48 years. Maybe he's at peace. He was the nicest guy in the world but he had some demons, unfortunately."
When baseball began checking for steroids in 2005, Howe said he supported a testing program.
"I was one of the first to be fried and tried," he said then.
Yet Howe said he did not think the steroid problem was as big as some believed.
"For whatever reasons, holes have been dug by everybody, so you do what it takes to clear it," he said at the time. "A guy asked me one time, 'Well, how bad is the drug problem in major league baseball?' And I go, 'Go take a survey of your housewives, your doctors, your lawyers, your people down the street, and there you got your problem."'
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The parents of Southern California football star Reggie Bush received $100,000 in cash from investors in a sports marketing company that hoped to sign the running back, an attorney for the investors said in a letter obtained by The San Diego Union-Tribune. Attorney Brian Watkins told the newspaper on Friday that Bush's parents, LaMar and Denise Griffin, asked for the money partly to resolve financial problems. Watkins said the money included an initial payment of about $30,000 to help start up the New Era Sports and Entertainment agency. Watkins said the money was disbursed throughout 2005 and was given on more than one occasion at the home of Lloyd Lake, an investor in the company and a documented gang member. Watkins described him as a longtime friend of the Heisman Trophy winner. Watkins described the $100,000 in disbursements in a letter dated Feb. 13 in which he asked David Cornwell, the Bush family's attorney, if USC should be included in settlement discussions. "We would not object to their [USC's] participation as we understand their wanting to be involved due to the fact this matter was ongoing during their Championship season of 2004 as well as the entire season of 2005, and any lawsuit filed might have an adverse effect on them," Watkins' letter said. USC spokesman Tim Tessalone said he was unaware of the letter and declined comment. The content of the letter was reported hours after the Houston Texans, who have first overall selection in Saturday's draft, passed on Bush and signed North Carolina State defensive end Mario Williams. Watkins said earlier this week that Bush's parents didn't pay $54,000 in rent during the year they lived in a house owned by a sports marketing agency investor who wanted to represent the football star. The money dispute began after Bush signed with another agent and marketing representative, ending any chance of a deal with New Era. Bush's mother and stepfather had agreed to pay landlord Michael Michaels $4,500 in monthly rent when they moved into the Spring Valley house Michaels bought for $757,000 in March 2005. Michaels said the Griffins told him they eventually would pay him rent from Bush's earnings when he went pro. Also Friday, agent David Caravantes, who is under investigation by the NFL Players Association for his role in the housing arrangement, said he has had nothing to do with the Southern California star. Caravantes told The Associated Press he is unaware of the investigation, adding: "I have had no involvement with Reggie Bush. The truth will come out." Gene Upshaw, executive director of the NFLPA, confirmed Friday that the probe of Caravantes has begun. Watkins, who represents Lake and Michaels, said Bush's family defrauded his clients out of $300,000 over 1� years using "the carrot" of Bush's future football career as an enticement. Bush, who signed with agent Joel Segal, said he believes the matter will be cleared up in a few weeks. "I've got to get back to football," he said. "My life is parallel to a horse race. They have blinders on to keep them from being distracted in the race and keep them focused on winning the race. That's kind of like my life. Focus on the goal, not the things coming at me from the side." Watkins sent the player's parents an eviction notice on April 3 and they moved out of the house last week. Bush has said his parents left because they found another place to live. Watkins said he plans to file a fraud lawsuit against Bush's parents and possibly Bush. David Cornwell, the Bush family attorney, did not return phone calls for comment. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said in a statement Friday, "Based on the information presented by Reggie Bush's attorney, our office has advised the attorney to consider referring these matters to law enforcement authorities." The NCAA is investigating whether the living arrangement violated rules prohibiting student-athletes and their families from receiving extra benefits from agents or their representatives.