UNH hockey goalie arrested – WMUR Manchester

A STAR HOCKEY PLAYER OVER AT U.N.H. IS FACING SERIOUS CRIMINAL CHARGES TONIGHT. GOOD EVENING, NEW HAMPSHIRE, I’M TOM GRIFFITH. I’M SHELLEY WALCOTT. DURHAM POLICE SAY WILD CAT GOALIE CASEY DESMITH ASSAULTED HIS GIRLFRIEND LAST WEEKEND AND THEN RESISTED OFFICERS WHO TRIED TO ARREST HIM. ADAM SEXTON IS LIVE ON THE U.N.H. CAMPUS WITH OUR TOP STORY. ADAM? CASEY DESMITH HAS BEEN THE STARTING GOALIE FOR THE MEN’S ICE HOCKEY TEAM AT U.N.H. FOR THE LAST THREE SEASONS, BUT AFTER AN ALLEGED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT AT MOVE-IN WEEKEND HERE AT U.N.H., HE’S BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY. IT’S POSSIBLE U.N.H. HOCKEY STAR CASEY DESMITH MAY NEVER DON A WILD CAT HOCKEY UNIFORM AGAIN. DURHAM POLICE ARRESTED THE SENIOR GOAL TENDER AFTER AN ALLEGED DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCIDENT OVER THE WEEKEND. INVESTIGATORS TELL NEWS 9 IT INVOLVED DEMYTH AND HIS GIRLFRIEND, AND HAPPENED VERY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. DESMITH IS CHARGED WITH ONE COUNT OF SIMPLE ASSAULT AND ONE COUNT OF RESISTING ARREST. CAMPUS NEWSPAPER THE NEW HAMPSHIRE OBTAINED DETAILS OF THE POLICE REPORT WHICH SAYS THE ALLEGED VICTIM WAS THROWN TO THE GROUND, PUNCHED REPEATEDLY AND SPAT UPON, AND THAT SHE BORE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF AN ASSAULT. AT THIS TIME IT ISN’T CLEAR WHAT PROMPTED POLICE TO CHARGE DESMITH WITH RESISTING ARREST. U.N.H. RELEASED A STATEMENT ANNOUNCING IT HAD SUSPENDED DESMITH SAYING: I SPOKE WITH STRATFORD COUNTY ATTORNEY TONIGHT, HE SAYS HE’S NOT SURE IF HE’LL BE HAND THLG CASE OR IF IT WILL BE PROSECUTED