NJ Cops Probe Rape Claim at Jets' Home
Monday, May 25, 2009 | Updated 5:30 PM EST
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Jets Safety Kerry Rhodes issued a statement saying that he is not the target of an investigation of an alleged rape that occurred at his home.
New Jersey police are investigating a woman's claim that she was raped by two men at the home of Jets safety Kerry Rhodes.
The woman, a Canadian tourist, said she met Rhodes and another man at a Manhattan nightclub before being taken to a home in Morristown, N.J., where Rhodes owns a town house, according to authorities quoted in Monday's New York Post.
Rhodes, in a statement released through a Jets spokesman, said he was not one of the accused.
"I briefly talked with police on Saturday regarding an incident that allegedly took place at my home," Rhodes said in a statement. "The police confirmed to me that I am not the subject of this allegation."
Morristown Police Lt. David Ackerman told the Post the investigation is ongoing but declined further comment.
A spokesman for the Jets said the organization was "gathering information," according to the Post. Rhodes, who was drafted out of Louisville in 2005, signed a $33 million, five-year contract extension with the Jets last year.
Local prosecutors released a statement to address false media reports stating that Rhodes was the target of the investigation.
"Information which is being reported through the media that Mr. Rhodes is the subject of a rape investigation is factually untrue and wholly inaccurate and has the capacity to unfairly damage the reputation of Mr. Rhodes," Morris County Prosecutor Robert Bianchi said.
