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Australian Footballer’s Night Out in NYC Ends in a Jail Cell

The football star had previously been arrested in Australia for indecent assault, though prosecutors later withdrew the charge.

An Australian football player’s night out on the town in New York City has ended in a jail cell. Jordan De Goey, a forward for the Collingwood Football Club in Melbourne, Australia, was arrested early Saturday for forcible touching and assault after he and a friend tried to grope a woman at a nightclub atop the Dream Hotel. When a man the woman was with tried to push them off, the friend allegedly struck him with a glass bottle and he and De Goey allegedly began to beat him. She then called 911, after which police arrested the two. The incident is not De Goey’s first run-in with the law. He was previously arrested in Melbourne for indecent assault after he and a friend allegedly sexually assaulted a woman, though prosecutors later withdrew the charge.