The NFL has opened a review into San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York’s arrest, with commissioner Roger Goodell saying Wednesday that the matter is being handled under the league’s personal conduct policy.
“It’s being reviewed under the personal conduct policy,” Goodell said at the owners’ meetings in Atlanta. “We’ll do that and when there’s something to be reported we’ll talk.”
York was arrested Sunday in East Palestine, Ohio, after an undercover operation by the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force. Police said he attempted to pay $160 for sex with a woman he believed was a prostitute. The case drew fresh attention Wednesday when bodycam footage surfaced showing officers questioning York at a mobile home park before handcuffing him.
In the video, York tells officers he was “just driving” when they ask why he was there. Officers later searched his rental vehicle and found $160 in cash, along with two phones. One of those phones contained a photo of his two sons.
York originally faced a prostitution charge, but prosecutors later reduced it to disorderly conduct. He pleaded no contest Monday to that charge and to possessing criminal tools for using his phone to respond to an online prostitution advertisement.
A judge sentenced him to one day in jail on the two offenses, with credit for the day he already spent in custody. York also paid a $1,150 fine, surrendered the $160 and completed an online course.
Court records show York has spent much of the summer in Ohio, where he grew up near Youngstown. Those records also show that he filed for divorce from his wife, Danielle, in May.
The league now has to decide whether the arrest and convictions warrant discipline. The personal conduct policy has been used on owners before.
In 2014, former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay received a six-game suspension and a $500,000 fine after pleading guilty to impaired driving. By contrast, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was not punished by the NFL after his 2019 arrest in Florida on allegations that he paid for sex at a massage parlor.
Prosecutors later dropped that charge after a court ruled police violated the rights of Kraft and other customers.
Goodell did not say when the review would be completed.
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