Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly has indefinitely suspended wide receiver Will Mahone from all football-related activities after the third-year sophomore was arrested over the weekend, according to the Twitter feed of Michael Bertsch, the school's director of football media relations.
Five charges, including three felonies, were brought against Mahone after he allegedly refused to calm down when Austintown police tried to subdue him upon arriving at the scene where Mahone was attempting to fight several people on Saturday night, according to police documents. Mahone was charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest, assault of a police officer, intimidation of a public servant and vandalism of a government entity, the last three of which are felonies.
With a string of allegations like that, Kelly had no choice but to put Mahone's non-descript football career on hold.
Mahone was "highly intoxicated" and was head-butting and punching cars when officers arrived at the scene in the Youngstown, Ohio, suburb, per police documents. According to the police documents, officers twice stunned Mahone, who berated them, and, after being placed in a police car, kicked and spit upon the windows. The documents said a spit net was eventually placed over Mahone's head. Mahone also allegedly butted heads with an officer while trying to break free from police, per the police documents.
Mahone was later taken to a hospital to treat a cut on his left eye and he continued to scream profanities at police and hospital staff, according to the police documents.
Mahone has played only sparingly with the Fighting Irish, battling an ankle sprain last season while buried on the depth chart at running back. He missed much of spring practice with another injury while switching to a wide receiver role.
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