Kobe Bryant taken to Hospital after Assault

[Guest Polish_Rifle]

I got this from espn.com...

 

CORDILLERA, Colo. -- Kobe Bryant left a Colorado hospital approximately 12 hours after the time frame in which he is accused of committing sexual assault against a 19-year-old woman, the Orange County Register reported Wednesday.

 

Terry O'Brien, a 38-year-old Vail Taxi dispatcher and driver, told the Register that he picked up the Lakers star from the emergency room at Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs. According to the newspaper, Bryant was with three members of his entourage and flanked by Eagle County sheriff's officers.

 

Bryant pulled a towel over his head before diving into the back seat of the cab, O'Brien told the newspaper.

 

O'Brien was not at work early Wednesday and a telephone listing in his name was disconnected.

Police spokesperson Kim Andree refused to discuss the newspaper report or confirm whether sheriff's deputies accompanied Bryant to a hospital and then let him leave.

 

"We didn't handle this case any differently than any other case," she said. She said the department uses hospitals in Glenwood Springs and Vail for tests in sexual assault investigations.

O'Brien said he transported Bryant and three men to the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, then drove one of the men back to the Lodge and Spa at Cordillera, where the man "cleared out" Bryant's belongings. O'Brien said he was paid $372 by Bryant bodyguard Michael Ortiz for the 2½-hour job. The Register did not specify how O'Brien knew Ortiz's identity.

 

"The whole thing was pretty weird and pretty fishy," O'Brien told the Register. "Bryant was laying in the back seat with a towel over his head, trying not to be seen, while three men were taking care of all the details."

 

District Attorney Mark Hurlbert said Tuesday he hoped to have a decision whether to file charges against Bryant by the end of this week.

 

"I felt confident from the first time I talked to my investigators," Eagle County Sheriff Joe Hoy said. "I felt we did the right thing."

 

Hoy confirmed that the allegations against Bryant were made by a 19-year-old Colorado woman who works at the resort. Hoy said the woman has left on vacation with her family.

 

Hoy also said investigators have sent unspecified evidence to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for analysis. A bureau official said that the work has begun.

 

Authorities have said they are treating Bryant like any other suspect, though Eagle County sheriff's investigators didn't reveal his arrest until two days after he was released on bail.

 

Earlier this week, Sheriff Joe Hoy said investigators learned of the assault allegation on July 1 and spent nearly 30 hours on the case before contacting Bryant. Andree has said investigators told Bryant about the arrest warrant last Thursday, and he returned to Colorado the next day to turn himself in and post $25,000 bail.

 

The arrest wasn't announced until Sunday.

 

On Tuesday, Hoy said the alleged victim would return home from a family vacation to "mind-boggling" media attention.

 

Hoy said he was concerned about the pressure on the woman and frustrated that there was more attention on Bryant than on her.

 

"To me, the sad part is, if this hadn't been who it involved, this wouldn't even be a blip on anyone's radar screen," he said. "Personally, I think they're focusing on our suspect rather than on the victim."

 

Prosecutors Monday said they needed more time before deciding whether to bring charges against Bryant, 24.

 

"Sexual assault cases are extremely complex and sometimes it takes awhile to get through everything," Hurlbert said Monday.

 

He refused to discuss details of the allegations against Bryant, a five-time NBA All-Star. Hurlbert said the alleged victim was "doing OK, considering the circumstances."

 

Under Colorado law, sexual assault could range from fondling to rape.

 

Bryant's lawyer said Monday that Bryant "expects to be completely exonerated" and accused the sheriff's office of rushing the case.

 

Bryant turned himself in to authorities Friday, the sheriff's office said. The married father of a baby girl was released that day after posting $25,000 bond.

Officials at the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera, a gated resort in Edwards, said Bryant stayed there June 30-July 2.

[Guest Dangerous A]

Interesting.

 

I wonder why Bryant was in a hospital less than 12 hours after the alleged assault?

 

Methinks business is about to pick up here.

[Guest Choken One]

Here I was thinking it was a simple...

 

Bryant fucked a Groupie and got caught and is paying the $$$...

 

It MIGHT be a little more severe since the police seem to taken this shit seriously...

[Guest Polish_Rifle]

He's guilty!

[Guest Polish_Rifle]

I have some more news...Here's the latest:

 

Kobe Bryant talked to and flirted with the alleged victim in the ongoing sexual assault case when he checked into the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera on June 30, according to hotel employees, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday.

 

One employee told the newspaper that hotel security, responding to complaints of noise from other guests, went to Bryant's room early in the morning on July 1. A report of the alleged attack was made to Eagle County law enforcement officials later that afternoon, hours after Bryant underwent arthroscopic knee surgery, according to the Times.

 

A decision on whether to charge Bryant with the assault will not be announced until sometime next week, prosecutors said Thursday.

 

The Times also reported that the alleged victim -- a hotel employee -- is a former cheerleader and choir singer at Eagle Valley High School.

 

A couple that lives next door to the woman expressed shock that the alleged victim is the woman they know.

 

"My husband was just saying this morning that he was a disbeliever of the legal action against Kobe -- he thinks Kobe is a stand-up guy," the wife, who declined to give her name, told the Times. "But my thinking all along has been, 'Why would this woman give a false accusation and open herself up to all this scrutiny unless something happened?' "

 

Her husband told the newspaper that his position changed upon learning the identity of the alleged victim.

 

"It's more complicated now," the man said. "My thinking was entirely based on Kobe's clean image. But now, actually knowing this girl and her family a lot more than I know Kobe, I just do not think she would do anything malicious. We're dealing with a young girl here, somebody brought up in the mountains, a trusting person.

 

"That entire family is well-respected. Usually, you get a good sense of a child by the pride her parents show, and they did with her."

[Guest Choken One]

I'm confused...They are making it seem like they handling a Rape case here (the secrecy) but it appears as if Kobe just Harrassed Her...

 

Ah Who cares anymore?

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Why the fuck are people talking about this story so much. If he's guilty than he's guilty. If he's not than, he's not.

[Guest Vern Gagne]

Damn it