York is seen sitting in the driver’s seat with his hands raised as an officer approaches, unbuckles his seatbelt and orders him out. Wearing a Yankees T-shirt, basketball shorts and sneakers, he asks “Can I ask what you’re doing?” and, when pressed on whether he was meeting anyone, says only that he was “just driving.”
The two-minute, 44-second clip was released this week by police in Columbiana County and captures the arrest at a mobile home park in East Palestine, Ohio, on Saturday, 22 August 2026. Investigators from the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force had posted a fake advertisement for a woman selling sex; York, using an alias, exchanged messages with the account across two days before he was given the address and a price of $160.
Going through his wallet at the roadside, officers found stacks of $20 bills and started to talk about how easy the operation had been.
“It’s crazy the people that do this. They could do whatever they want, they could do other things, they could go other ways. It’s wild,” one of the officers said on camera.
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Charge amended, no contest plea
York was originally charged with engaging in prostitution. Prosecutors amended that count to disorderly conduct, and on Monday he pleaded no contest to that charge and to possessing criminal tools, a reference to the cell phone he used to answer the ad. He was sentenced to two days in the Columbiana County Jail, credited to time already served after posting a $5,000 bond, and ordered to pay $1,150 in fines. Court records show a request to have the case expunged has been filed.
Frank Cassese, York’s attorney, said in a statement that his client’s “case in Columbiana County has been resolved in its entirety.”
The 49ers offered a single line of their own.
“As this is a legal matter, which has been resolved, we will not be providing any further comment at this time,” the club said.
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NFL opens a personal conduct review
The plea does not close the matter for the league. Speaking on Wednesday, 26 August at the owners’ meetings in Atlanta, Roger Goodell told reporters that the arrest is now under formal review.
“It’s being reviewed under the personal conduct policy. We’ll do that and when there’s something to be reported we’ll talk,” Goodell said.
The policy applies to owners as much as to players. York stepped down as the 49ers’ CEO earlier this year and handed day-to-day control to Al Guido, but he remains the owner and the person against whom any league sanction would be directed.
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