YOUNGSTOWN — Sebastian Espinoza, a football player at Youngstown State University, was arraigned in Youngstown Municipal Court Friday on charges of aggravated burglary and two counts of misdemeanor assault in a Feb. 22 incident in the University Edge apartments adjacent to YSU in which he allegedly walked into the wrong apartment and refused to leave.

Espinoza, 20, a 6-foot-7, 310-pound YSU football player, was arrested on the charge Thursday morning at the YSU Police Department, where he and YSU Head Football Coach Doug Phillips turned in Espinoza, according to a YSU Police Department report. Espinoza was taken to the Mahoning County jail, where he remained Friday afternoon, according to jail records.

If convicted of aggravated burglary, he could get several years in prison.

The misdemeanor assaults could result in a jail sentence of several months if convicted. He returns to municipal court at 9 a.m. March 10 for a preliminary hearing on the burglary charge and a pretrial on the misdemeanors, court records show.

The report states that Espinoza attacked residents of an apartment after Espinoza “barged” into the apartment about 11:30 p.m. that night while the occupants of the apartment were watching a movie.

The occupants asked Espinoza why he was in their apartment. Espinoza said he lived in room 112, but he had barged into an apartment on a different floor from 112, the report states. The occupants showed Espinoza the room number on the door, a string of unique lights strung across the ceiling and asked Espinoza to leave.

But Espinoza just told them to “get … out of my apartment,” the report states. Espinoza then grabbed one of the occupants “around the neck with his hand.” An unnamed individual then intervened, “pinning him to the ground outside of the apartment and in the nearest stairwell,” the report states. An individual then found Espinoza’s friends / roommates downstairs and asked them to stop Espinoza from fighting, but they did not act, it states.

“As Espinoza was on the ground, he continued to kick” at two people, who let him up when he calmed down, but Espinoza then struck (a person) in the lower jaw with a closed fist,” the report states. The two people then “wrestled Espinoza back to the ground, and that’s when the roommates broke up the fight.”

The roommates then retreated back to their room and locked the door. Espinoza and his roommates left the area before YSU police arrived, the report states.

YSU police confirmed that Espinoza was a YSU football player, but they were unable to locate him when they arrived at the apartment, the report states. Witnesses said they believed that Espinoza was “heavily intoxicated,” and that was the “motivation as to why he came to their room and assaulted them,” the report states.

According to the YSU football website, Espinoza is on the 2025 football roster, is a sophomore from Mount Washington, Ky., who played in one game in 2024 as a redshirt freshman. On the ESPN website, he is listed as an offensive lineman.