The attorney for Brad Lester said some of the allegations against the former Auburn running back, which originally included a child-pornography charge, were misunderstandings, but Lester had agreed to a plea arraignment to get past the case.

"At the end of the day, the family's concerned about getting him some counseling," attorney Max Richardson told Tyler Estep of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "because he's obviously gotten carried away with his phone."

Lester was arrested on Dec. 21. He was alleged to have used his cellphone to film secretly a juvenile male in a restroom stall at a restaurant in the Dacula, Georgia, area on Nov. 6.

After being charged with one count of unlawful eavesdropping or surveillance and one count of creating or possessing child pornography with the intent to distribute last month, Lester reached an agreement with the Gwinnett County District Attorney's Office to plead guilty to one count of unlawful eavesdropping, one count of theft by receiving stolen property and two counts of peeping Tom.

The latter two charges aren't connected to the Dacula restroom incident, in which Lester had been recording sounds the boy was making in the bathroom because he thought it was funny, Richardson said. Instead, they came from an incident while he worked as a substitute teacher at Dacula High School.

According to the indictment, Lester "did peep under a desk and spied upon and invaded the privacy" of two female students. Cellphone photos of the girls were found on a laptop that belonged to Gwinnett County Public Schools, which Lester had not returned, prompting the stolen-property charge.

Under the plea agreement, Lester was sentenced to five years - 30 days in jail and the remainder on probation. Since he'd been in jail since being arrested on Dec. 21, he was released.

Lester played at Auburn from 2004 through 2008. He ran for 1,689 yards and 19 touchdowns on 371 carries and caught 26 passes for 258 yards and three TDs. Lester rushed for a career-high 98 yards in Auburn's 17-10 victory over Alabama in 2007.

Lester also averaged 27.1 yards per kickoff return and ran one back 93 yards for a touchdown against Ball State in 2005.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @AMarkG1.