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TTUN Football Player Arraigned for Sexual Assault

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December 22, 2016 at 2:57pm
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Didn't see it posted yet. 1 game suspension handed down by Harbz at the time. 

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/local/2016/12/22/um-football-player-charged-sexual-assault-east-lansing/95755290/

 

EAST LANSING - A University of Michigan football player was arraigned Wednesday on four charges related to a sexual assault that officials say took place in East Lansing in October.

Grant Perry, a sophomore wide receiver from Royal Oak, was arraigned in East Lansing District Court on one felony count of assaulting, battering, resisting or obstructing an officer, two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual assault and an underage drinking charge.

He is accused of touching a female who was waiting in line outside a downtown East Lansing bar at 12:20 a.m. Oct. 15.

"When (police) arrived on scene, we tried to grab onto him, and we had to chase him," said Lt. Scott Wriggelsworth, a spokesman for the East Lansing Police Department. "In the midst of that fracas, one of our officers suffered a minor hand injury."

A spokesman for the UM athletic department could not immediately be reached.

Michigan did not have a football game the weekend of the incident. Perry was suspended for the team's game the following week in Ann Arbor, for what head coach Jim Harbaugh then described as "disciplinary reasons."

East Lansing officials in November issued a press release asking anyone who witnessed the incident to contact police, although Perry was not identified as a suspect in the release.

Perry, 19, turned himself in Wednesday and was released on a personal recognizance bond, Wriggelsworth said.

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