Myron Medcalf, ESPN Body of workers Editor
Arterio Morris has been pushed aside from the Kansas males’s basketball workforce upcoming he was once arrested and charged with rape, Invoice Self introduced Friday.
In keeping with paperwork bought through ESPN, Morris was once arrested Friday through the Douglas County Sheriff’s Place of business on a price of “rape; circumstances unknown,” which is a prison.
“When we learned of allegations regarding Arterio Morris, he was suspended from the Kansas men’s basketball program,” Self stated in a remark. “We are now aware he has been arrested and charged, and he was dismissed from the program. As this is an ongoing legal matter, we are not able to comment further at this time.”
The bond for Morris was once eager at $75,000 when he was once booked into Douglas County prison. In keeping with prison data, Morris was once not in custody as of eleven:45 a.m. ET on Friday.
Morris, a switch from Texas, was once with the Longhorns as they made a run to the Elite 8 closing season earlier than he transferred to Kansas this offseason. The college suspended him in mid-September upcoming he’d been the topic of a sexual attack investigation at McCarthy Corridor, the place KU basketball gamers survive campus. Even if he wasn’t discussed within the incident record, The Kansas Town Celebrity reported that he was once the topic of the investigation.
Endmost generation, an 18-year-old girl from Missouri reported an alleged rape within the males’s basketball dorm, according to police paperwork.
3 alternative gamers — Johnny Furphy, Elmarko Jackson and Nick Timberlake — have been discussed within the incident record as eyewitnesses and “other,” respectively, however a supply instructed the Celebrity they weren’t “remotely” concerned.
Morris’ postponed this generation took place hours upcoming he had entered a plea trade in that canceled an October trial that were eager for a misdemeanor attack price towards him. Endmost summer time, Morris was once arrested when an ex-girlfriend accused him of assaulting her upcoming that they had damaged up earlier than the beginning of closing season.
Previous this generation, Chris Gaston, Morris’ agent, instructed ESPN that Morris would talk “when the time is right.”
