False. They're covering it every day now, but they were not the first ones who broke the story.. It took them a couple days and they were the last news network to report it.
Originally Posted by EnEyeKayEe
[h1][/h1][h1]Ben Latest: VIP Partier Tells Story, Private Eye Hired, Cop Seen In Photo[/h1]MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- A young woman told Channel 4 Action News on Friday that she was one of about 20 who partied with Ben Roethlisberger at a nightclub last week on the night that a female college student told police she was sexually assaulted by the Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback.
"Everyone keeps talking about how nice he was. He was not nice," the woman said.
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Capital City nightclub in Milledgeville, Ga.
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The woman -- who asked not to be identified -- told reporter Ari Hait that people who were with Roethlisberger invited her into the VIP area of the the Capital City club."
A bunch of big guys were like, 'Come back in here,' and I was like, I'm just trying to have fun, whatever," she said.http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/video/22827036/index.html
She said that women were fawning over the star quarterback, and that he hit on her but she wasn't interested and didn't like the way he was acting, so she left."
He bought a round of shots for girls and said, 'All you #++#%$%, take my shots,' and I got pissed because that's very rude and disrespectful to call girls a bunch of #++#%$%," she said.
Before she left, she said she saw Roethlisberger with the woman who would eventually become his accuser. She didn't think anything of it until the next morning when she heard about the accusations."
The fact that people are talking about how he's such a nice guy at the bar, buying us a bunch of shots, because there's a bunch of drunk girls happy that they're getting free shots -- he was very arrogant," she said.
Roethlisberger has not been charged with any crimes. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is continuing to look into the 20-year-old woman's claims of what happened to her in the early-morning hours of March 5.
Atlanta attorney Ed Garland has been hired by Roethlisberger, and the lawyer had private investigator Charles Mittelstadt in Milledgeville on Friday to ask questions and try to figure out what happened on the night in question. Mittelstadt has worked on behalf of Baltimore Ravens star Ray Lewis and rapper T.I. in the past."
I won't comment specifically about any particular aspect, but I think you can assume that we're looking into all aspects of this allegation," Mittelstadt told Channel 4 Action News on Friday.
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The Union-Recorder
Jerry Blash and Ben Roethlisberger (Photo from The Union-Recorder)
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Also on Friday, the local Union-Recorder newspaper published a photo that shows Milledgeville Police Sgt. Jerry Blash posing with his arm around Roethlisberger hours before the alleged victim approached Blash to report that she was assaulted.
Police Chief Woodrow Blue told the newspaper that even though Blash wrote the incident report -- which did not include Roethlisberger's name -- he had little involvement in the subsequent investigation and the picture of Blash with Roethlisberger did not affect the investigation "at all."
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is handling the majority of the investigation because of the Milledgeville Police Department's limited resources.
According to Carl Cansino, a lawyer for Capital City, Blash came to the nightclub to arrange the VIP room for Roethlisberger and his friends.
Cansino said he doesn't know if Blash was focused on helping Roethlisberger or if he was trying to keep the streets safe."
It could even be crowd control -- like, say, there's a lot of people in the line there, maybe at the instruction of one of them, can you see if you can get us in so we can get off the street because we're just tired of maybe giving autographs or whatever the case may be," Cansino said.
Ben is nowhere near the popularity scale as those other three...Not even close.
Duncan said the accuser's friend "did not seem frantic, it was someone just looking for her friend." He said he told the woman she could either try to hop over the divider that separated the stage room from the bathroom area or "go around to the back and go through the backside entrance, because that door doesn't have a handle to it and you can go in that way." Duncan said he didn't know if the woman tried to get back into the bathroom area.
This dude serious? You can leave the bar, take the 3rd right at the 2nd set of lights and talk to some guy named Ron and he'll let you in. Why not just take her back there?
On March 8, three days after the alleged incident, Duncan said police reviewed video footage of the night at his office in the club. The police were called away suddenly because of a murder in the area. Shortly afterwards, Duncan said, his "tech guy" tried to make a copy of the camera outputs to give to the police and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which was assisting on the case, but encountered problems. Duncan said they had trouble accessing the video again, and he was later informed by the GBI that there was nothing on the recordings.
... NT detecs, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't there companies that can retrieve/restore recordings that have suppossedly been erased?
When I seen the pic on MSN I was thinking the same thing. The guy is 2 seconds away from a full on Mullet.
