Police investigating Dak Prescott's extortion claim by woman who alleged sexual assault

Prosper police are investigating allegations that a woman extorted Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott, a department spokesperson told the Star-Telegram Wednesday.

Prescott's attorney went to police in Prosper to report that he had been robbed under duress, police told the Star-Telegram.

The allegation comes after the woman accused Prescott of sexually assaulting her in 2017. She intends to file criminal charges against the quarterback, her attorney said Tuesday.

Prescott filed an 11-page complaint Monday in Collin County against Victoria Shores of Fort Worth and her attorneys, Yoel Zehaie and Bethel Zehaie, claiming they were trying to extort $100 million from him to settle a sexual assault claim by 2017.

According to a letter sent to Prescott earlier this year by her lawyers, Shores said she would be “willing to forgo pursuing criminal charges and disclosing this information to the public, in exchange for compensation for the mental anguish she 'she suffered'.

Shores' lawyers estimated his damages at $100 million in the letter.

Prescott denied the sexual assault allegation in a text to the Star-Telegram on Monday.

“She's trying to get $100 million from me to not report a rape case that I obviously didn't commit,” Prescott said in the text.

In a statement, Prescott's attorney, Levi McCathern, called the allegations against his client an “extortion plot.”

Yoel Zehaie told “GBag Nation” on The Fan 105.3 FM that Shores' lawyers were surprised when they learned of Prescott's extortion trial, but called it a “classic” move to discredit the victim. According to Zehaie, the letter they sent to Prescott was a formal notice and standard practice in civil cases.

“There’s nothing extortion about it,” Zehaie told the radio. “But we’re just very disappointed that he’s trying to flip the script and become a victim.”

McCathern told the Star-Telegram in an email Tuesday that the letter from Shores and his attorneys was the first correspondence Prescott had received about the allegations, and Prescott forwarded the letter to law enforcement.

According to McCathern, Prescott and Shores were never in a relationship but “they knew each other before and after the alleged assault.”

“She never mentioned that she felt any of his behavior was inappropriate,” McCathern said.

Prescott and Shores spent time together as a group on the day the assault allegedly occurred, McCathern said.

Staff writers Clarence Hill Jr. and Harriet Ramos contributed to this report.