Kaepernick
06-12-2014, 05:39 PM
Miami investigators find no crime in case involving Kaepernick, other
By Matt Barrows
Published: Thursday, Jun. 12, 2014 - 2:04 pm
Investigators in Miami found no evidence that a crime occurred in Colin Kaepernick's hotel room on April 1 in what turns out to be a bizarre case brought forward by a 25-year-old Atlanta woman who eventually had to be sedated and strapped to a stretcher while screaming about devils.
A day after she was taken to a hospital, the woman went to police saying she may have been sexually assaulted at the Viceroy Hotel in downtown Miami. But according to the closeout memo released today by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office, there was no evidence of a sexual assault or even that the woman had sex that night.
According to the closeout memo, when officers arrived, they found the woman alone in Kaepernick's bed “moving as if engaged in a sexual act, although there was no one else in the room. When she heard the officers' voices, the complainant started screaming incoherently about Jesus and devils.”
Meanwhile, the attorney for Kaepernick, Ricardo Lockette and Quinton Patton told Miami police that Kaepernick left the hotel shortly after the woman arrived and started acting strangely. Two other women, whom Kaepernick had met earlier in the day, departed the hotel roughly at the same time as Kaepernick. They spoke with police for their investigation.
They said they were on the hotel suite balcony when the woman joined them dressed only in the comforter from Kaepernick's bed. The complainant allegedly told them they weren't safe there and one of the women overheard her say she had arrived from Atlanta to have “three champion babies.”
Both the complainant and the players’ attorney told police that Kaepernick and Lockette had met her a year earlier when they were training in Atlanta. Kaepernick and the woman had sex at the time, but Kaepernick had cut off contact – even changing his cell phone number – when on April 1, 2013 she told him she was pregnant.
She continued to pursue him through social media, the attorney said via the closeout memo. Miami investigators found video on the internet of the woman topless except for body paint that resembled Kaepernick's 49ers jersey. The closeout memo indicates the woman took a bus from Atlanta to Miami with the intention of having sex with Kaepernick. She contacted Lockette, who invited her to the Viceroy Hotel suite that Kaepernick had rented but where Lockette and Patton also were staying.
In her initial complaint, taken by police on April 3, the woman said he had drinks and smoked marijuana with all three men and that she and Kaepernick retired to his bedroom together where he kissed and undressed her. They did not have sex, she told police.
Witness statements found in the closeout memo paint a different picture.
After she arrived, the woman and Lockette had drinks while Kaepernick was in his bedroom presumably preparing for a date. When he emerged from the room to greet his guests, according to the players’ attorney, the complainant “looked shocked.” She went into Kaepenick's bedroom and emerged wearing only his comforter. Shortly thereafter, Kaepernick and the two other woman left, and Kaepernick kept in contact with Lockette via text messages that urged him to get the woman out of their hotel.
Both Lockette and hotel security eventually called police, who, when they arrived, could hear the woman screaming from outside the door to the hotel suite. The closeout memo contains a statement from hotel security that says that police initially were able to calm the woman, who was calling for Kaepernick, but that she “became even louder and began banging her head against the bedroom walls and kicking uncontrollably.”
Paramedics, who were called by police, sedated the woman, who was taken to the hospital early on April 2 under the Baker Act, in which a person can be admitted to the hospital because they have a mental illness and are a threat to themselves and others. Hospital personnel diagnosed the complainant with two illnesses, both of which are redacted in the closeout memo.
While at the hospital, the woman was given more medication to calm her. Toxicology tests came back positive for marijuana, which she admitted having smoked, and the two drugs used to calm her down. The closeout memo does say that there are some so-called “designer drugs” that the laboratories cannot detect.
The complainant also was given a rape kit test, which showed no trauma and no sign of semen. Medical personnel did find a hair, but there was not enough for a DNA sample. The players never were interviewed during the investigation and never were asked to submit DNA.
The state attorney's closeout memo concludes that while it is possible the woman's bizarre behavior was the result of being drugged, there is no proof of it and no evidence that any crime occurred.
The 49ers this month rewarded Kaepernick with a six-year contract extension that can be worth as much as $126 million.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/12/6478769/miami-investigators-find-no-crime.html#storylink=cpy
By Matt Barrows
Published: Thursday, Jun. 12, 2014 - 2:04 pm
Investigators in Miami found no evidence that a crime occurred in Colin Kaepernick's hotel room on April 1 in what turns out to be a bizarre case brought forward by a 25-year-old Atlanta woman who eventually had to be sedated and strapped to a stretcher while screaming about devils.
A day after she was taken to a hospital, the woman went to police saying she may have been sexually assaulted at the Viceroy Hotel in downtown Miami. But according to the closeout memo released today by the Miami-Dade State Attorney's office, there was no evidence of a sexual assault or even that the woman had sex that night.
According to the closeout memo, when officers arrived, they found the woman alone in Kaepernick's bed “moving as if engaged in a sexual act, although there was no one else in the room. When she heard the officers' voices, the complainant started screaming incoherently about Jesus and devils.”
Meanwhile, the attorney for Kaepernick, Ricardo Lockette and Quinton Patton told Miami police that Kaepernick left the hotel shortly after the woman arrived and started acting strangely. Two other women, whom Kaepernick had met earlier in the day, departed the hotel roughly at the same time as Kaepernick. They spoke with police for their investigation.
They said they were on the hotel suite balcony when the woman joined them dressed only in the comforter from Kaepernick's bed. The complainant allegedly told them they weren't safe there and one of the women overheard her say she had arrived from Atlanta to have “three champion babies.”
Both the complainant and the players’ attorney told police that Kaepernick and Lockette had met her a year earlier when they were training in Atlanta. Kaepernick and the woman had sex at the time, but Kaepernick had cut off contact – even changing his cell phone number – when on April 1, 2013 she told him she was pregnant.
She continued to pursue him through social media, the attorney said via the closeout memo. Miami investigators found video on the internet of the woman topless except for body paint that resembled Kaepernick's 49ers jersey. The closeout memo indicates the woman took a bus from Atlanta to Miami with the intention of having sex with Kaepernick. She contacted Lockette, who invited her to the Viceroy Hotel suite that Kaepernick had rented but where Lockette and Patton also were staying.
In her initial complaint, taken by police on April 3, the woman said he had drinks and smoked marijuana with all three men and that she and Kaepernick retired to his bedroom together where he kissed and undressed her. They did not have sex, she told police.
Witness statements found in the closeout memo paint a different picture.
After she arrived, the woman and Lockette had drinks while Kaepernick was in his bedroom presumably preparing for a date. When he emerged from the room to greet his guests, according to the players’ attorney, the complainant “looked shocked.” She went into Kaepenick's bedroom and emerged wearing only his comforter. Shortly thereafter, Kaepernick and the two other woman left, and Kaepernick kept in contact with Lockette via text messages that urged him to get the woman out of their hotel.
Both Lockette and hotel security eventually called police, who, when they arrived, could hear the woman screaming from outside the door to the hotel suite. The closeout memo contains a statement from hotel security that says that police initially were able to calm the woman, who was calling for Kaepernick, but that she “became even louder and began banging her head against the bedroom walls and kicking uncontrollably.”
Paramedics, who were called by police, sedated the woman, who was taken to the hospital early on April 2 under the Baker Act, in which a person can be admitted to the hospital because they have a mental illness and are a threat to themselves and others. Hospital personnel diagnosed the complainant with two illnesses, both of which are redacted in the closeout memo.
While at the hospital, the woman was given more medication to calm her. Toxicology tests came back positive for marijuana, which she admitted having smoked, and the two drugs used to calm her down. The closeout memo does say that there are some so-called “designer drugs” that the laboratories cannot detect.
The complainant also was given a rape kit test, which showed no trauma and no sign of semen. Medical personnel did find a hair, but there was not enough for a DNA sample. The players never were interviewed during the investigation and never were asked to submit DNA.
The state attorney's closeout memo concludes that while it is possible the woman's bizarre behavior was the result of being drugged, there is no proof of it and no evidence that any crime occurred.
The 49ers this month rewarded Kaepernick with a six-year contract extension that can be worth as much as $126 million.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/06/12/6478769/miami-investigators-find-no-crime.html#storylink=cpy