{"id":23693,"date":"1998-01-14T15:11:48","date_gmt":"1998-01-14T21:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/1998\/01\/14\/charges-against-maine-players-dropped\/"},"modified":"2010-08-17T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T00:54:09","slug":"charges-against-maine-players-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwproxy.uscho.com\/1998\/01\/14\/charges-against-maine-players-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges Against Maine Players Dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Penobscot County district attorney’s office announced Tuesday that it will not prosecute University of Maine hockey players Shawn Mansoff and Matt Oliver on charges of criminal threatening.<\/p>\n
Mansoff, a sophomore from Edmonton, Alb., and Oliver, a junior from Euclid, Oh., were accused with participating in a racial incident last month in which junior goaltender Bryan Masotta allegedly left a threatening voice-mail message on the answering machine of a black Maine football player.<\/p>\n
According to published reports, Mansoff and Oliver have been suspended by the university for one year. Both have appealed Maine’s decision and are awaiting a hearing. All three players remain suspended indefinitely from the hockey team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Penobscot County district attorney’s office announced Tuesday that it will not prosecute University of Maine hockey players Shawn Mansoff and Matt Oliver on charges of criminal threatening. Mansoff, a sophomore from Edmonton, Alb., and Oliver, a junior from Euclid, Oh., were accused with participating in a racial incident last month in which junior goaltender […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n