Former Frat President From Wrightstown Facing New Charges

Additional charges were announced Wednesday against a former Temple University fraternity president from Bucks County who is accused of sexual assault. Ari Goldstein, a 21-year-old from Wrightstown, is now facing additional counts of rape and false imprisonment in connection with a May incident, court records show.

Authorities filed rape, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse by forcible compulsion, unlawful restraint, sexual assault, false imprisonment, indecent assault, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person charges in connection with a May 24 incident, the documents show.

Goldstein was charged in May for an alleged assault that occurred in February. Goldstein is scheduled for a pretrial conference on Aug. 14 in that case.

He is a 2015 Council Rock graduate, information on the district's website shows.

As far as the new charges go, he was released Wednesday after posting 10 percent of $1.5 million bail, and is slated to appear on Aug. 23 for his preliminary hearing.

In April, Temple suspended the frat during an investigation into alleged sexual assaults, underage and excessive drinking, and possible drug use at the fraternity's social events. At that time Philadelphia Police said two alleged sex assaults at the frat house – located at 2000 N. Broad St. – were being investigated.

The first happened in February but was reported to authorities in April, according to police. Authorities said a female student attended a party at the frat house and alleges to have been sexually assaulted.

The second alleged sexual assault happened in March and was also reported in April, police said. Another female student went to a party at the house and was served drinks then became dizzy and disoriented, according to police.

Police said she woke up in bed with a fraternity member and believes she was sexually assaulted.
The fraternity issued a statement on Goldstein's arrest and charges, according to Action News.

"Alpha Epsilon Pi International has no additional information about the charges being brought. We have not been informed - nor would we expect to be - of any of the allegations made or the evidence found. We will continue, though, to cooperate with Temple University and all local authorities," the statement reads. "The young man charged was not the chapter president at the time of his arrest. He had been removed as president several weeks ago and the chapter has been suspended by the International Fraternity for nearly a month."

Goldstein was arrested and charged in connection with the February incident in mid May.

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