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Ex-NFL star Darren Sharper charged with rape in fourth different city
By Igor Mello | CBSSports.com
March 20, 2015 1:08 pm ET
Darren Sharper is facing four different sexual assault charges. (Getty Images)
Former NFL safety Darren Sharper was charged with rape in Las Vegas on Friday -- the fourth set of rape charges files against him. According to the Associated Press, the 39-year-old already faces sexual assault charges in Los Angeles, New Orleans and the Phoenix area to go along with his latest charge in Nevada. He has been jailed since February 2014 in Los Angeles.
Sharper's latest charges stem from an incident with two women in January 2014, just a month before he turned himself in. Details of the allegation were not made available to the media. Each count carries a possible sentence of 10 years to life in Nevada state prison.
According to the New Orleans Avocate, plea deals have been struck in at least two of four jurisdictions (New Orleans, Los Angeles) where he has been charged with sexual assault, and it appears as if this is part of a global deal resolve all charges filed against the ex-NFL safety. The plea deals will be officially filed on Monday.
Sharper retired in 2010 after a two-year run with the Saints, which resulted in a Super Bowl title. He spent eight of his 14 seasons in the NFL with the Packers.
More details:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...rper-charged-with-rape-in-las-vegas/25082591/
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Rape charges filed in Las Vegas against Darren Sharper showed Friday that police and prosecutors are focusing on a pattern of drug-and-attack cases against the former NFL safety and TV analyst in Los Angeles, New Orleans and the Phoenix area.
Sharper's Las Vegas attorney, David Chesnoff, appeared Friday before a Las Vegas judge on two sexual assault charges accusing him of having sex with two tourists in January 2014 while the women were incapable of resisting.
The allegations are that Sharper went club-hopping with the women and took them to his room at a Strip hotel, where he drugged and sexually assaulted them while they were unconscious, said Officer Larry Hadfield, a Las Vegas police spokesman.
The account is similar to allegations made against Sharper in California, Louisiana and Arizona.