More than 10 days after an assault during a downtown apartment party that State College Police said involved Penn State football players, the department handed over their findings from the investigation to the Centre County District Attorney yesterday.

It is now up to the district attorney's office to determine if charges will be filed in the case, though it is unclear if and when that will occur, said State College Police Chief Tom King.

Police have been looking into the assault, which happened just after midnight April 1 in a third-floor apartment at Meridian II, 646 E. College Ave. Police said last week that 11 to 12 men forced their way into the apartment and assaulted several men who were attending a party there. At least one person was struck with a bottle during the fight, police said.

King said yesterday that his department has finished its portion of the investigation.

The district attorney's office will review the reports, King said, then schedule a meeting with Steve Bosak, the detective working on the case, to decide what charges, if any, are to be filed.

King said he didn't want to speculate on when the district attorney's office might be ready to meet with Bosak.

"We delivered those materials this afternoon, so I'm not expecting anything this week," he said yesterday. "There's many interviews and many documents to review."

Though few specific details have been released regarding the role the football players may have played in the fight, several partygoers told The Daily Collegian they

identified football players to the police. No one has been criminally charged for the incident, and police will not say which football players they have interviewed.

Police said they believe the incident at the apartment stemmed from an earlier incident on the corner of High Street and East College Avenue late in the evening of March 31. Offensive comments were made to a woman by at least one of three men, police said. The woman's boyfriend became angry, leading to a physical confrontation among the men, police said.

Nathan Boob, an assistant district attorney, said yesterday that Centre County District Attorney Michael Madeira has to look over the police department's reports and decide whether he wants to handle the case himself or hand it off to another prosecutor.

"He's in the Andrew Rogers murder trial right now, so I don't imagine that will happen today," Boob said.

Boob was reluctant to estimate how long it might be until the district attorney's office takes action.

"Some investigations take a day, some take a year or more," Boob said. "It's going to depend on specific facts and circumstances of the case."