Expulsion, suspensions plague Notre Dame football team
In a strongly worded statement, the university’s head football coach said, ‘The expectations we set for the members of our team are high.’
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Six Notre Dame football players were arrested over the weekend. One player is accused of punching a cop outside a bar following fight, and five others face charges for marijuana and gun possession.
Cornerback Devin Butler, who faces battery and resisting arrest charges, was indefinitely suspended from the team.
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In a separate incident, five players—Te’Von Coney, Max Redfield, Kevin Stepherson Jr., Ashton White and Dexter Williams—were arrested following a traffic stop about 50 miles away from Notre Dame’s South Bend campus. Three of the five passengers face unlicensed gun charges. All of them face a misdemeanor marijuana charge.
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