Fort Collins police say suspended Wyoming football player Youhanna Ghaifan tried to force himself on a female housekeeping employee at the team’s hotel before the Cowboys’ Oct. 26 game at CSU.

Ghaifan, a junior defensive tackle from Grand Island, Nebraska, was issued citations for two misdemeanors — harassment involving a strike, shove or kick and false imprisonment — by Fort Collins police and was immediately suspended from the team, a University of Wyoming spokesman said.

Fort Collins police released the report for the incident Wednesday in response to a Coloradoan request.

The incident occurred at the Fort Collins Marriott, where the Cowboys were staying before their annual Border War game against Colorado State University at 8 p.m. that night at Canvas Stadium.

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The housekeeper, whose name was redacted from the police reports, said a Wyoming player, later identified as Ghaifan, walked through an open door into a third-floor room she was cleaning. He kicked out the doorstop so the door would close behind him and approached her, “asking her if she wanted to have some fun.” When she said no, he continued to walk toward her, “pinned her arms to the wall and attempted to kiss her,” according to her statement to police.

The hotel employee said she was able to push him away and that he continued to try to kiss her. She convinced him to leave by telling him she had a break in a couple of hours. Ghaifan then asked for her phone number, which she gave him. He later texted her with his phone number, which police used, along with a physical description, to identify him.

As soon Ghaifan left the room, the housekeeper said she ran to the hotel’s office and reported the incident.

Ghaifan was in a room with Wyoming’s director of football operations, Brent Vernon, when police first contacted him at the hotel. He declined to speak to police, saying he wanted a lawyer present. Police took a photograph of him at the time that was later shown to the victim, who “positively identified the suspect” from it, according to the police report.

Ghaifan, 6-foot-4 and 282 pounds, was never arrested on the charges but instead given summonses to appear in court. A disposition hearing on the two charges is scheduled for Jan. 2 in Larimer County Court.

Ghaifan was driven back to Laramie, Wyoming, by a member of the football staff and has not played for the Cowboys since. He remains “suspended indefinitely from the Wyoming football team” and “has not taken part in any team activities since his suspension,” athletic department spokesman Tim Harkins said Wednesday in a text message.

Ghaifan is on schedule to graduate in December, Harkins said.

He had 20 tackles, including eight for lost yardage, in the eight games he played this season.

All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in court. Arrests and charges are merely accusations by law enforcement until, and unless, a suspect is convicted of a crime.

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