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UVU wrestler charged with rape

A Utah Valley University wrestler has been charged with rape and suspended from the team.

Dayton Lee Racer, 22, has been charged with first-degree felony rape after a 20-year-old woman reported on June 24 that he sexually assaulted her at the Bonanza Campount Music Festival at River’s Edge Resort in Heber.

According to the probable cause statement, the victim told police she was attending the event with friends when entered a tent Racer’s. She told him “multiple times that she was not there for anything sexual.” She said the two of them took the drug Molly and drank alcohol, and “the next thing she remembered was waking up in the tent in the morning” with Racer sexually assaulting her.