20-year-old Vance Johnson wrapped up his first and last season with the University of Nebraska Kearney's football team as a defensive back Friday after being dismissed from the team.

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WEBVTT REPORTER UNK'S DIRECTOR OFCOMMUNICATIONS SAYS VANCEJOHNSON WAS DISMISSED FROM THETEAM FRIDAY WHEN SCHOOLOFFICIALS FOUND OUT ABOUT HISARREST.HE COULD BE TIED TO FIVE SIMILARCASES, IN FOR DIFFERENT CITIES.THE DEFENSIVE BACK IS DISMISSEDFROM THE UNIVERSITY OF KEARNYFOOTBALL TEAM ON FRIDAY.IT IS NOT TOO UNCOMMON THATHE WENT SO FAR OUT OF HISLOCALE.REPORTER: POLICE SAY HE ISBEHIND A ROBBERY.>> HE LEFT A TRAIL.REPORTER: THE DETECTIVE ON THECASE SAYS WHEN HE WENT TO KEARNYTO'S -- TO SERVE THE SEARCHWARRANT, HE FOUND THE GUN ANDFAKE MONEY HE USED FOR THEROBBERY.JOHNSON COULD BE LINKED TO ATOTAL OF FIVE SIMILAR SCAMS.>> WE ARE LOOKING AT OTHERTRANSACTIONS IN THE LINCOLN ANDOMAHA AREA.REPORTER: ALSO A SIMILAR CASE INBELLEVUE.>> HE DELETED HIS PROFILE.HE HAD ALREADY TAKEN PICTURES OFSTUFF ON THE PROFILE.REPORTER: NOW, AS THIS FORMERFOOTBALL PLAYER SITS IN JAIL,THE VICTIM SAYS HE HAS LEARNEDHIS LESSON, AND HOPES JOHNSONHAS TOO.>> HE'S AN IDIOT.HE RUNS HIS ENTIRE LIFE.REPORTER: JOHNSON WILL BEFORMALLY CHARGED ONCE HE ISMOVED TO SARPY COUNTY.

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20-year-old Vance Johnson wrapped up his first and last season with the University of Nebraska Kearney's football team as a defensive back Friday after being dismissed from the team.UNK’s director of communications, Todd Gottula, said despite getting 18 tackles and two interceptions in the nine games he played, school officials made the decision after learning of Johnson’s arrest.“It's a big risk on his part to be engaged in criminal activity, but it's not too uncommon in my opinion that he went so far out of his locale,” said Chief Scott Lyons of the Papillion Police Department.Papillion police said Johnson is behind a robbery and forgery case from Sept. 26 after connecting with the reported victim on the Offer Up app.“The app definitely left a trail as far as in order to help identify him,” said Doug Moeller, the Papillion detective on the case.Moeller said when he went to Kearney Friday to serve the search warrant at Johnson's apartment, he found the BB gun and fake money police believe Johnson used to rob a Papillion woman of a diamond ring.Moeller said investigators also believe Johnson could be linked to a total of five similar scams.“Looking at the Offer Up account, it appears he was involved in some other transactions in the Lincoln and Omaha area,” said Moeller.There was also a similar case reported in Bellevue two hours before the reported Papillion case.The reported victim in the Bellevue case told KETV NewsWatch 7 he met with Johnson to sell an iPhone but instead got $500 in fake money.“And then he deleted his profile and everything like that off of it, but my wife had already taken pictures of stuff that was on the profile and one of the things was from Kearney,” said the reported Bellevue victim.Now, as the former football player sits in the Buffalo County Jail, the reported Bellevue victim said he's learned his lesson and hopes Johnson has, too.“He's an idiot,” said the reported Bellevue victim.”I mean, you ruined your entire life. I know how it is. I've been down that road.”Johnson faces charges of robbery and first-degree forgery and will be formally charged once he is moved to Sarpy County.As for his future at UNK, he's still a student. Gottula said a disciplinary team will review all student conduct and determine the status of his future there.