NFL Hall of Famer Sapp arrested on suspicion of assaulting women

Former NFL player and Hall of Famer Warren Sapp was arrested on suspicion of soliciting a prostitute and allegedly assaulting two women on Monday in Phoenix, local police said.

Sapp was taken into custody at a downtown Phoenix hotel and booked into jail, police said.

In Monday's incident, Phoenix police officers working security at a downtown hotel were investigating a noise disturbance about 2:30 a.m. when they were contacted by a woman alleging she had been assaulted.

"During the investigation, detectives were able to establish that an act of prostitution occurred in the room by at least one of the two females," said Sgt. Trent Crump, a police spokesman.

Crump said Sapp was taken to police headquarters and questioned "and admitted involvement in the act of prostitution, but denied assaulting the females. Minor injuries consistent with a struggle were observed by investigators on both females."

Sapp, 42, was in Arizona for Sunday's Super Bowl in suburban Glendale and is a broadcaster for the NFL Network.

"Warren Sapp has been suspended indefinitely without pay from NFL Network pending the outcome of ongoing police investigation," Alex Riethmiller, a spokesman for the network, said in a statement Monday.

Sapp, a tackle and defensive end, played in the NFL from 1995-2007 for Tampa Bay and Oakland.

Sapp has had a history with legal troubles around the Super Bowl. He was arrested the day before the Super Bowl in 2010 on a domestic battery charge, but prosecutors later dropped the case because of inconsistences between the victim's statements and evidence, including surveillance video. Endi