Update: Charges against Joshua Rupp were dropped on August 15, 2012, according to documents provided to the Alligator.
Gainesville police arrested two UF students on charges of rape Tuesday.
Joshua G. Rupp, 22, and Neil S. Williams, 21, assaulted a passed-out woman at her 2nd Avenue Centre apartment on Jan. 10, according to police. The two met the victim at 101 Cantina, GPD spokeswoman Cpl. Angelina Valuri said.
The woman was too drunk during the assault to resist, according to police. She does not remember the incident, and her name was not released.
Police arrested Williams around 3 p.m. Tuesday and Rupp at 5:17 p.m. Williams told officers he and Rupp both had sex with the woman on Jan. 10.
Both men are former members of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Rupp dissociated from the organization last summer, and Williams left in the fall, fraternity President Ethan McMahon said.
He said they both left for financial reasons. Neither one was spending much time with the fraternity before dropping out from the group, so it made sense to stop paying dues.
“They are no longer affiliated with us at all,” McMahon said. “I haven’t talked to either one of them for a while.”
Rupp is a UF information systems senior. Williams is a UF sociology junior.
Rupp did not return a call from the Alligator seeking comment Wednesday. A phone number listed for Williams on the arrest report was disconnected.
Contact Tyler Jett at tjett@alligator.org.
