Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler Kyle Snyder has reportedly been arrested as part of a prostitution sting in Ohio.
According to the Daily Mail, the former NCAA champion was busted after responding to a fake online ad set up by police to snare people attempting to pay for sex.
In Snyder’s case, he was allegedly looking to exchange cash for oral sex.
“The 29-year-old Snyder allegedly set up a date with an undercover agent, arrived at the hotel 30 minutes later and offered to pay cash for oral sex,” the Mail reports.
He was arrested at the hotel in question by uniformed officers for engaging in prostitution.
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Kyle Snyder was arrested after paying cash to undercover cop for sex in Columbus, Ohio.
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Snyder was one of 16 men apprehended in the sting and is due in court on May 19, according to Columbus police, who are said to have released him at the scene.
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A gold medal winner at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics and a silver medal winner in Tokyo five years later, Kyle Snyder is a three-time world champion and three-time national title winner.
Snyder was appointed to President Donald Trump’s Council on Sports, Fitness & Nutrition two years after winning gold in Rio.
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The former Ohio State star signed with the Real American Freestyle wrestling league, which boasts Hulk Hogan as its commissioner, last week. The promotion is scheduled to host its first event on August 30 in Cleveland.
Reports note that the former Buckeye is a self-professed Christian and is married to former Syracuse soccer player Maddie Pack.
He was inducted into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2024, having gone 75-5 in college and going on a 28-0 streak in 2016 and 2017.
The two-time Ohio State Male Athlete of the Year had won 42 international wrestling medals, 30 of them gold, by the time he was inducted last year.
