Breaking: Top Michigan WR Charged With Sexual Assault, Other Crimes

Michigan Wolverines wide receiver Grant Perry was arraigned on Wednesday on four charges relating to an alleged sexual assault that took place outside an East Lansing bar on Oct. 15, according to Christopher Haxel of the Lansing State Journal.

Grant Perry, a sophomore wide receiver from Royal Oak, was arraigned in East Lansing District Court on one felony count of assaulting, battering, resisting or obstructing an officer, two misdemeanor counts of fourth-degree criminal sexual assault and an underage drinking charge.

He is accused of touching a female who was waiting in line outside a downtown East Lansing bar at 12:20 a.m. Oct. 15.

"When (police) arrived on scene, we tried to grab onto him, and we had to chase him," said Lt. Scott Wriggelsworth, a spokesman for the East Lansing Police Department. "In the midst of that fracas, one of our officers suffered a minor hand injury."

A spokesman for the UM athletic department could not immediately be reached.

Perry turned himself into police on Wednesday before being released on bond.

Michigan had a bye week the weekend of the incident, and head coach Jim Harbaugh suspended him for their game against Illinois the following weekend, citing "disciplinary reasons." However, Perry returned for Michigan's Oct. 29 game against Michigan State in East Lansing.

The sophomore caught 13 passes for 183 yards and a touchdown this season.

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