Three West Georgia baseball players face another charge
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Posted 7:36AM on Thursday, February 14, 2002
CARROLLTON - Three baseball players at the State University of West Georgia are expected in court Thursday after being arrested on a new charge. <br>
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Michael L. Perez, 22, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; Barry Allen Sommer, 21, of Eustis, Fla.; and Benjamin Bryant Hodges, 22, of Donalsonville were arrested Tuesday night after being free on bond. <br>
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The three were initially arrested Monday on charges that they sexually assaulted a female student while she was unconscious in January. Police said the assault was on a videotape recovered while investigating an unrelated rape charge. <br>
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Police have arrested the three on a new charge - aggravated sodomy in the Jan. 31 incident. <br>
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The men have been suspended from the baseball team pending the investigation. They remain in jail.