Exactly. A friend had to post the poor guys bail.
For a crime that was confessed to and that someone has been convicted of..
DURHAM - A Durham police detective investigating the Duke University lacrosse case arrested a witness Wednesday on charges of impersonating a Hispanic person. The woman who was the second dancer at a party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. at which an escort service dancer has alleged she was sexually assaulted by three men, Kim Roberts, said Investigator R.D. Clayton and another officer asked whether she was sure she did not personally witness the alleged rape of the other dancer by the men at the party. Roberts told the detectives that now that they mentioned it, she did in fact now recall personally seeing the rape occur. After signing a sworn statement at police headquarters, Roberts was released.
Roberts, who is half black and half Korean, admitted in an interview with the Raleigh News & Observer that the lacrosse players had requested a white dancer and a Hispanic dancer and that she proceeded to dance under the false pretense of being a Hispanic person.
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, who is personally handling the rape case, explained that impersonating a Hispanic person is a serious crime. "Many people may not have realized that it is a serious crime for a taxi driver to accept as a passenger someone who has been shoplifting, even if the taxi driver has no knowledge of the shoplifting," Nifong said, "and people also need to understand that in Durham, it is a serious crime for a person to pretend to be Hispanic who is not."
Ernest Conner, a Greenville lawyer who represents defendant Reade Seligmann, said Roberts' arrest amounted to intimidation. "It appears to me they pressured a witness into providing evidence against the defendants," Conner said. Seligmann and another player, Collin Finnerty, have been charged in the case with raping the other escort service dancer.
Sgt. Mark Gottlieb, the supervisor of the investigation, refused to answer questions Wednesday night as reporters caught up with him leaving the Allure Escort Agency and zipping up his pants.
Roberts had earlier provided Durham police investigators with a sworn statement saying she did not personally witness any alleged rape.
