Former Rutgers Player From Bergen County Slammed Woman Down Onto Concrete: Report

By Michelle Sahn

The Rutgers football player arrested on a simple assault charge this weekend slammed a woman down onto a concrete surface, according to a report in The Record.

Leonte Q. Carroo, 21, of Edison and a former football player at Don Bosco Prep, “was arrested by the Rutgers University Police Department (RUPD) and charged with simple assault under domestic violence related to an incident that occurred outside the Hale Center in Piscataway on September 12, 2015,” according to a statement from Rutgers Police Chief Kenneth Cop, issued Monday.

On Tuesday, The Record reported that the woman had been romantically involved with Carroo, and she injured her hip, elbow, palms and the side of her head. The Record attributed the information to a complaint filed in Piscataway municipal court.

Simple assault is a disorderly persons offense that is generally heard in municipal court.

NJ.com has reported that authorities were investigating an altercation that involved two females, including one who was anacquaintance of Carroo.

Carroo has been suspended from the team. He is a Rutgers senior and a team captain.

This case is unrelated to the arrest of a number of other football players who have since been dismissed from the squad, and the simple assault charges he faces is far less serious than the charges those players are facing.

Two of those young men, along with a third former Rutgers player, are facing robbery charges, while four others are facing aggravated assault and riot charges.