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4 former Y. players indicted in scandal

Published: Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004 9:48 a.m. MST
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Arrest warrants were issued for Mathis, Bennett and Rashada, and Rashada was arrested Friday and detained in the Utah County Jail. A judge ordered all three men held on $100,000 cash bail.

Mathis and Bennett are now in Texas, where they attended high school together. If arrested there, Bryson will seek extradition.

Turner, 18, was 17 at the time of the alleged incident and will be tried in juvenile court, Bryson said. Turner will be allowed to turn himself in instead of being arrested.

No court dates have been set.

BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said all six players could face a new round of Honor Code reviews.

"The Honor Code Office in its decision was acting on information available to it at the time," Jenkins said. "We've said all along that if more information became available, we'd consider re-opening these cases."

Some of the players could be permanently expelled.

"Yes," Jenkins said, "that is a possibility, that the suspensions would become dismissals."

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BYU administrators and members of the school's board of trustees have been stung by the negative publicity that has overshadowed the football program for the past year. National headlines trumpeted the police investigations in the rape case, and ESPN dedicated its "Outside the Lines" program to BYU's troubles on Sept. 3, the night before the football team's first game, an upset victory over Notre Dame.

"The behavior that those individuals have been charged with is not tolerated at this university," Jenkins said.

The bad news for BYU is that Friday's announcement doesn't mark the end of the troubles.

"We're not resting," Bryson said. "There's a lot of work to be done."


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