Utah defensive tackle Jamal Wallace has been suspended indefinitely from the football program after his arrest last week, a Utah athletics spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
Wallace was taken into custody after a woman reported that he raped her and shared videos of the assault on her Snapchat account. According to the arrest document, he was not arrested on a sexual assault charge.
Instead, police booked him on allegations of distributing intimate images, misdemeanor counts. As of Wednesday evening, he had not been formally charged.
“We were made aware of the situation with Jamal Wallace on Oct. 11, and he was immediately placed on an indefinite suspension from the program,” the Utah athletics spokesperson said. “We take these matters seriously. As this is a pending legal matter, we have no further comment at this time.”
Wallace was released from jail after posting $5,000 bail. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Police said a woman described Wallace as her “off-and-on dating partner” and told investigators she met him on Oct. 9 to discuss their relationship, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by The Salt Lake Tribune. She alleged that Wallace instead forced her into multiple sex acts and, at one point, took her cellphone and said he wanted to change the music playing.
The woman later told police she realized Wallace had allegedly recorded a video of himself having sex with her on her phone and sent it to five people she had been messaging on Snapchat. After viewing the videos, the affidavit says, she felt “confused and disgusting” and underwent a sexual assault examination.
During a police interview, Wallace denied sexually assaulting the woman, according to the arrest document. He also allegedly told an officer he had accessed her Snapchat account to see who she had been talking to. An officer wrote that he reviewed the messages and found Wallace had recorded “two sexually explicit videos involving himself and the victim.”
Wallace transferred to Utah from Tennessee this offseason and appeared in one game before the suspension.
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