New details have emerged concerning the arrest of Utah wide receiver Fano Tagovailoa.
The junior was arrested Sunday morning and transported to the Salt Lake County jail where he was booked by officers on charges of burglary and domestic assault.
Details from the official police report were obtained through a public information request from public information officer Robin Snyder with the Salt Lake City Police Department. She said police were called at 3:22 a.m. Sunday, March 5, and that Tagovailoa, 22, was arrested and later booked on the charges.
Snyder confirmed that the incident involved a female who had previously lived with Tagovailoa at the residence where the incidence took place.
According to the police report, the woman and Tagovailoa were both at his house earlier that night. She eventually left for her house and went to bed. She was awakened, first by a cell phone call that she did not answer, and then by “a noise from her front door — which turned out to be Tagovailoa coming in through the front door.”
He “forced the door to apartment open, causing moderate damage to the door and frame,” according to the report, which adds that he came into her bedroom where she was sleeping, grabbed her by the arms and “dragged her out of bed by her arms.”
The report indicated that he then left the residence and was “later located at his residence by other officers,” Snyder said.
Because of the previous cohabitation between the woman and Tagovailoa, Snyder said, the burglary charge — a second-degree felony — falls under a domestic violence statute.
“(The statute) is supposed to protect people who have lived together-boyfriends and girlfriends, stuff like that,” Snyder said. “They were (previously) cohabitants. So?it’s going to fall under the domestic violence statute. We have no discretion on those; we have to arrest.”
Police said Tagovailoa was bonded out Monday at 5 a.m. A Sportsman’s Bail Bonds spokesperson confirmed Wednesday that it had bonded him out.
While the U football team placed Tagovailoa on suspension as a precautionary measure, there has been no further action.
“What we want is the kid not to be hung out there…That was our concern,” said Shane Schut, the U’s director of football operations. “Until we get official word, there’s nothing we can do.”
Attempts to contact Tagovailoa were unsuccessful as of late Wednesday. The district attorney’s office was contacted, but no D.A. is officially on the case at this time.