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New Orleans arrest warrant issued for Darren Sharper

Brent Schrotenboer, USA TODAY Sports7:57 p.m. EST February 27, 2014
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • New warrant means former NFL star is now suspected of nine rapes in five states
  • New Orleans police say Sharper and an accomplice raped two women in the same apartment last year
  • Sharper played 14 years in the NFL and was a member of the Saints team that won a Super Bowl in 2010
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Former NFL star Darren Sharper is now suspected of raping nine women in five states after authorities in New Orleans on Thursday said they issued arrest warrants for Sharper and an acquaintance for the alleged rapes of two women there last September.

Sharper, 38, previously had been under investigation for one alleged rape in New Orleans. Last week, a prosecutor in Los Angeles referenced an additional alleged victim in New Orleans – a case that was confirmed by New Orleans authorities Thursday with additional details.

Sharper and his acquaintance, Erik Nunez, 26, each face two counts of aggravated rape.

"Last week, investigators learned that not one, but two women were allegedly sexually assaulted by Sharper in the same apartment the night of September 23rd," New Orleans police said in a statement. "New information uncovered also indicates that Nunez also allegedly raped both women that night at the same location."

New Orleans police said additional arrests are possible as the investigation continues.

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Sharper, who played with the New Orleans Saints and was a member of the team that won the Super Bowl in 2010, last week pleaded not guilty in California to charges that that he raped two women in Los Angeles after drugging them.

Police suspect he did the same to two other women in Arizona and two in Nevada, where investigations are continuing. In Miami Beach, Fla., police also suspect he raped a woman there last year after she became highly intoxicated.

Sharper previously only faced formal charges in Los Angeles, where he is scheduled for a preliminary hearing in April, though more charges could be coming in other states as they complete their investigations.

Los Angeles Judge Renee Korn last week raised his bail from $200,000 to $1 million and also set terms for him, including ordering him not to be alone with women he didn't know prior to Oct. 30, 2013, the date of the first alleged Los Angeles incident. Korn also ordered him not to leave Los Angeles County and not to go to nightclubs, where he allegedly partied with his alleged victims before the alleged rapes.

"The court considers these crimes quite serious and has to evaluate the protection of the public." Korn said.

Sharper's attorney, Leonard Levine, told the judge that "all of these were consensual contact between Mr. Sharper and women who wanted to be in his company, who voluntarily ingested alcohol and drugs in many cases."

Under Louisiana law, a person convicted of committing aggravated rape shall be punished by life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence.

Sharper, who is currently suspended without pay from his job as an analyst for theNFL Network, faces up to 30 years in prison for the alleged Los Angeles crimes alone.

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scumbag, jail, lock him up, yeah yeah blah blah blah...

But seriously, in a game where 'play angry' makes you better, doesn't the league attract* this sort of human being?

 

*Edit:  Originally I said 'cultivate', when I should have said 'attract'.  

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I have a friend who knows Sharper and last week when I asked her about this she defended him, saying "you don't know how girls act around ball players", etc.  I replied, yeah but....this many women....same m.o. every time?  Really?

 

Oh the naivete.

Yeah. How come 9 of them are just targeting him? Thousands of ballplayers sleep with thousands of women. They don't all get accused of rape by 9 of them (and those are just the ones who aren't too embarrassed to come forward).

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scumbag, jail, lock him up, yeah yeah blah blah blah...

But seriously, in a game where 'play angry' makes you better, doesn't the league cultivate this sort of human being?

 

i also hear his mommy didn't hug him enough. are you seriously making an excuse for a sadistic and evil human being by saying the nfl made him do it?

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