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Update: Tigers' Minor-League Pitcher Evan Reed Charged With Sex Assault

July 30, 2014, 7:49 AM

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Update: Wednesday, 3:35 p.m. --  Ben Gonik, the attorney for Evan Reed, tells Deadline Detroit that the Tigers organization is being supportive of Reed.

"The charges are ridiculous," Gonik said. "The sex was was consensual. The prosecutor's office knows it was consensual. It's ruining his career."

He said after the woman left the room at the Motor City Casino she walked by two police officers without saying a word.

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Original article, Wednesday morning:

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced Wednesday her office will charge the Tigers' minor-league pitcher Evan Reed with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for an incident in late March.

Reed, 28, will be arraigned in Detroit's 36th District Court in the coming days. He faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. He was charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct. 

A 45-year-old woman told police she met Reed at the Fifth Avenue bar in Royal Oak on the evening before the Tigers' home opener this spring, and she believed she was surreptitiously drugged at some point in the evening. 

The woman said she became conscious in a Motor City Casino hotel room while Reed was sexually assaulting her. 


Prosecutor Kym Worthy at press conference

Worthy, who held a press conference, said Worthy said the investigation took so long “because there was a lot of work to be done,” which included poring over surveillance tapes and interviewing witnesses, according to the Detroit News.

She said Reed “had reason to know the victim was incapacitated.

Reed attorneys Ben Gonek and former Oakland County Prosecutor David Gorcyca, said in a statement in May that said "we are confident that this matter will be closed” after Worthy's office reviewed it.

Worthy's office has been reviewing the warrant request from Detroit Police for several weeks.

The Tigers signed Reed, a hard-throwing righthander, in April 2013. After starting the 2014 season in Detroit, Reed, who is 6-foot-4 and 255 pounds, was demoted to the Tigers' AAA minor-league affiliate in Toledo in June. The Tigers said at the time the demotion was a result of Reed's poor pitching and had nothing to do with the criminal investigation.

Reed also is struggling with the Mud Hens: in 10.1 innings he has an 0-1 record and an elevated 6.97 earned run average.

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