Two BYU football players and a third person were arrested in Orem and booked into the Utah County jail early Saturday morning after what police described as an attempt to retaliate against water balloon throwers at a parking lot dance.

Players Terrance Deshawn Hooks and Vitale TaAaga Magauli So'oto were arrested and cited for burglary. BYU head football coach Bronco Mendenhall suspended the players Sunday. A news release from BYU athletics said that sophomore inside linebacker Hooks and sophomore tight end So'oto were suspended from the team "for violation of team rules."

The players will not participate during the final week of Spring Camp, including the annual Blue-White game.

Orem Lt. Doug Edwards said the incident started late Friday night at the Parkway Crossing Apartment complex after a parking lot dance had come to an end and people were still milling about in the parking lot.

Two people, 22-year-old Lacey Quigley and 22-year-old Jason Hancock, of Orem, were in an apartment on the third floor tossing water balloons from a bedroom window at people in the parking lot below. One woman, 19-year-old Natalie Dew, of Provo, got hit on the leg and became upset.

"Some insults and threats were exchanged between the two above and Dew below and Dew said that she would be returning with some guys," Edwards said.

Edwards said Dew got her boyfriend, 19-year-old Hooks, of Provo, who was accompanied by his friend, 19-year-old So'oto, also of Provo. Hooks and Dew engaged in some heated banter with the two above until Hooks allegedly declared that he was coming up to assault them. Quigley and Hancock locked the door and hid in the bedroom.

Hooks, Dew and So'oto entered the apartment building and went up to the third floor, but got turned around and confused inside the building and started banging on the wrong apartment door, demanding entrance, Edwards said.

When no one answered immediately, Edwards said Hooks kicked the door in. The group in the "wrong apartment" called security, who happened to be an off-duty Orem police officer. The officer told them he was on his way over and to call the police.

When Hooks, Dew and So'oto actually found the apartment they were looking for, they kicked that door in and proceeded to the back room where, Edwards said, the balloon throwers had retreated. Before they got to them, the security officer and police arrived in the apartment.

Hooks, Dew and So'oto were taken into custody for burglary, in that they entered or remained unlawfully on a premise with the intent to commit an assault.

Police cited the balloon throwers with criminal mischief for their part in the incident.

Mendenhall said the details of the suspension have yet to be determined.

Hooks, a native of Tempe, Ariz., saw action in 12 of the Cougars' 13 games last season, recording 18 tackles. So'oto, a native of Carlsbad, Calif., redshirted the 2006 season after playing in 11 games as a true freshman in 2005.