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Friday, April 3, 2009

Sports Sounders FC Star Investigated For Sexual Assault

Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 8:00 AM

A woman called the King County Sheriff's office this week alleging that Seattle Sounders FC soccer star Fredy Montero was stalking her, two law enforcement sources said Thursday evening.

According to a law enforcement report about the incident, the 23-year-old woman told police on March 31 that she saw Montero in a car near her home in Sammamish. The report stated that she feared for her safety because Montero allegedly had sexually assaulted her in Bellevue the week before on March 22, which she had reported to the Bellevue Police Department.

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Look at his beady little rape eyes.

Posted by Rotten666 on April 3, 2009 at 8:11 AM

Typical football Thugs.

Come on defenders of soccer! How many of you wrote the phrase "those basketball playing thugs" while the Sonics were still in town.

Posted by it burns just a bit doesn't it on April 3, 2009 at 8:20 AM

It's good to see rape transcends ALL sports.

Posted by heywhatsit on April 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM

Would someone please ask Frizzelle if she deserved this? I have a hard time telling when sexual assault is justified.

Posted by Bohica on April 3, 2009 at 8:47 AM

I'm trying to decide if Jonah's wringing his hands and giggling over this story or if it's given him a new respect for the beautiful game.

Either way, thanks for jumping all over another "PI gets the scoop" news item and getting it on the Slog, Jonah. Heck of a job.

Posted by Yawn. on April 3, 2009 at 8:54 AM

All athletes fall into one of four categories: violent criminals, bigots, egotists, or insane.

Posted by kebabs on April 3, 2009 at 8:59 AM

i read he was missing the road trip because he "had an illness". way to scoop the blethen times, slog!

Posted by Max Solomon on April 3, 2009 at 9:07 AM

THUG!!!!!!!!Soccer is a thug sport!!!!!!!!!!!Get them out of town!!!!!!! Oh wait, most soccer players aren't black and don't have tattoos so it's ok.

Posted by Soccer Fans Are Racist White People on April 3, 2009 at 9:26 AM

@8: i think you mean BIGOTED.

Posted by Yellow Card for uneccessary use of "Racist" on April 3, 2009 at 9:40 AM

so I guess I missed the part where he has been charged with anything

Posted by bigots all over the place on April 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM

This man looks suprisingly like he was pictured for a completely different newspaper story.

Posted by dan kieneker on April 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM

Oh well, at least they aren't the Sonics.

Posted by Baconcat on April 3, 2009 at 11:05 AM

God damn it, this is not good news. Damn it, Fredy, if this is true you just threw away about a hundred million dollars. Grr.

Posted by Fnarf on April 3, 2009 at 11:10 AM

Let's prove that soccer is different than football in another way: don't sweep this under the rug just because he is a big, fancy pro athlete. If the case has merit, the prosecutor's office had better bring charges. None of this Huskies / Seahawks bullshit with the KC Prosecutor's office acting as guardian angels and fixers for the players.

Posted by Greg on April 3, 2009 at 11:26 AM

Oh, and here we thought soccer would be nicer than all the other sports. I just can't wait until we have a soccer riot here in Seattle!!

Posted by Cato the Younger on April 3, 2009 at 11:41 AM

Um.

How do we know she's not visually hallucinating? One of the most common forms of dementia involves seeing well know sports and media figures in places where they're not.

Just saying.

Posted by Will in Seattle on April 3, 2009 at 1:01 PM

Shut the fuck up, Will.

Soccer isn't nicer or more polite than other professional sports- all professional sports, sadly, have these elements. That it's Fredy is distressing because he's clearly the star man of the team, but if it's true, that shouldn't be any excuse for why he's done this and I hope he's charged and punished.

Posted by Abby on April 3, 2009 at 1:43 PM

http://www.mls-rumors.net/2009/04/report…

Case closed, apparently. Now all I have to worry about is how we'll do tomorrow without him...

Posted by Abby on April 3, 2009 at 1:53 PM

Dearest Greg- Soccer is different from American Footbal. No fans at a Seahawks game have been trampled to death, Hasselbeck hasn't been shot or hit with a flair while calling plays. Seahawks don't writhe in pain on the ground, get carried of on a stretcher, then only return to the "pitch" moments later running around, mullets flowing in the wind.
However, this will be THE year that soccer catches on in America, right?

Posted by Brandi'sSportsBra on April 3, 2009 at 2:36 PM

Surprised a soccer player went after a woman

Posted by Reader on April 4, 2009 at 1:44 AM

All athletes fall into one of four categories: violent criminals, bigots, egotists, or insane.

@6: or if on the Seahawks, they are theocratic Republican dickheads, like the ones who hung out with GWBoogerbrain in Bellevue.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber on April 5, 2009 at 4:10 AM

So lets get this right.

The Stranger, 4 days after this news story broke, post that the PI has the scoop on this breaking news story! Rabid idiot slog commenters (see above) post ignorant comments. Then the one smart commenter corrects The Stranger that the case is closed and the charges dismissed because it probably never even happened. Wow. Top notch, team.

"Sheriff's spokesman Sergeant John Urquhart tells KING 5 News there was a stalking accusation made but that it has been dismissed.
According to Urquhart, it was all a coincidence. He says Montero was a passenger in a car that stopped near the woman.
The case has been closed.
KING 5 News has learned Montero and the woman have had a relationship for some time."

Posted by rotten slog on April 6, 2009 at 3:02 PM