Ruhann Peele was charged in an alleged incident on Oct. 9.
NEW BRUNSWICK -- Ruhann Peele, who was kicked off the Rutgers University football team after an arrest in early September on an assault charge, has been arrested again and charged in another alleged assault.
Piscataway police arrested Peele on Oct. 20 at the request of New Brunswick police to face an aggravated assault charge from an incident that occurred on Oct. 9, according to Captain J.T. Miller of the New Brunswick Police Department.
The alleged assault took place in the area of Easton Avenue and Mine Street in New Brunswick, city police said. Peele is accused of punching a victim in the face, causing a facial fracture, authorities said. The victim was hospitalized, police said. Peele is no longer in custody. His attorney on his previous aggravated assault charge did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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In early September, authorities arrested six current and former football players, including Peele, in an alleged assault that occurred on Delafield Street in the spring. In that incident, police said that the victim suffered a broken jaw, and the judge in that case said several of the attackers kicked the victim when he was down. The dispute was over a parking spot, authorities have said.
Peele was not charged in a series of alleged home invasions that resulted in the arrests of three other former Rutgers football players, along with Tejay Johnson, one of the co-defendants in the Delafield incident.
Without naming the defendant, Middlesex County First Assistant Prosecutor Christopher Kuberiet said in court Friday that one of the "young men involved" in the Delafield assault had been arrested again.
Rutgers University police sent a crime alert about an alleged assault on Oct. 9 that matches the accusation against Peele. The crime alert, sent via email to the Rutgers community, said that a male student was punched once in the face and treated at the hospital around 2:10 a.m.
Peele was also charged in 2014 with pulling a woman's hair and scratching her face. That charge was dropped. A fourth-year junior, Peele was expected to play cornerback before he was removed from the team.
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