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USC football player suspended after arrest on assault and burglary charges

South Carolina football player Javon Charleston, a reserve defensive back, has been charged with assault and burglary in Lexington County, according to police documents.

Charleston has been suspended from the team, a USC athletics department spokesman said.

A police report says that on June 17, Charleston was exchanging text messages with a woman. When she didn't respond, he went to the place she was staying and entered the residence around 2 a.m, according to the report.

The woman woke up to find Charleston at the foot of her bed, she told police. Charleston got into a verbal altercation with a man who also was in the bed, the woman reported.