The NFL has opened a review of San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York’s arrest under the league’s personal conduct policy, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday at the owners’ meetings in Atlanta.
“It’s being reviewed under the personal conduct policy,” Goodell said. “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. According to authorities, he tried 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 placing him in handcuffs. In the video, York says he was “just driving” when asked why he was there.
Officers later searched York’s rental vehicle and found $160 in cash, along with two phones. One of the phones contained a photo of his two sons.
York initially faced a prostitution charge, but prosecutors later changed that 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 York to one day in jail on the two offenses, with credit for the day he already spent in custody. He also paid a $1,150 fine, surrendered the $160 and completed an online course.
York has spent much of the summer in Ohio, where he grew up near Youngstown. Court records also show 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 against team owners before: former Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay received a six-game suspension and a $500,000 fine in 2014 after pleading guilty to impaired driving.
But New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft did not face NFL punishment 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 offer a timeline for the review.
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