A former Baylor tight end who was dismissed from the football team for a "rules violation" in 2015 was arrested Wednesday in a sexual assault case.
Tre'von Armstead, 22, was taken into custody in southeast Texas for a sexual assault warrant out of McLennan County, where Baylor is located, according to the Jefferson County jail.
Bail was set at $150,000.
Details of his arrest were unavailable Wednesday night.
Armstead and another former Baylor player, Shamycheal Chatman, had been named as suspects in a 2013 sexual assault police report. A woman accused them of raping her after a party, but declined to press charges at the time. She later named them in a lawsuit filed against Baylor in January.
Neither player had been charged in that case, and it's unclear if Armstead's Wednesday arrest is related.
Armstead is the latest former Baylor football player to be arrested for sexual assault. Two others have been convicted of the crime, and another, former NFL draft prospect Shawn Oakman, is awaiting trial.
The series of arrests have helped fuel a sexual assault crisis at the Baptist university in Waco, where at least 19 football players have been accused of sexual or physical assault, including four gang rapes, since 2011.
One estimate _ included in the lawsuit filed by Armstead's accuser _ alleges that figure could be much higher, with as many as 31 football players committing 52 "acts of rape between 2011 and 2014.
Armstead had returned to Texas after being arrested in Las Vegas earlier this month for domestic battery, resisting arrest and damaging a police car.
