Dallas police say they will not file sexual assault charges against Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, citing insufficient evidence that a crime occurred.
Earlier this year, a woman accused Prescott of trying to extort her out of $100 million seven years ago filed a police report saying he assaulted her.
The woman claimed in the report that Prescott sexually assaulted her in the parking lot of a Dallas strip club in 2017.
Prescott denied the woman's claims and filed a countersuit, accusing her of attempting to extort him. According to Prescott's complaint, the woman and her attorney sent her a letter stating that if Prescott paid her $100 million, she would not file criminal charges and her allegations would not be made public.
Dallas police detectives investigated the woman's claims, and the department announced Thursday that the case was closed and detectives determined there was insufficient evidence that a crime had been committed.
“I would like to thank the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas County District Attorney's Office for thoroughly investigating the allegations against Dak Prescott. As we knew they would do so, after an extensive fact-finding investigation, the We found nothing to support the charges,” said Levi McCathern, an attorney representing Prescott.
“We are confident that the law enforcement investigation into the extortion case will find the accusers and their attorneys guilty, as well as Duck's innocence. As we have said from the beginning, Duck was a great football player and an even better human being.These false charges were brought seven years after the incident for which they were accused, and there is only one reason: It was to line his own pockets. He's a real survivor of sexual assault,” McCassan said.
