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UGA Police Charge Fmr. Student in Beating
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) University of Georgia police have charged a former UGA student in connection with a complaint by a Clemson University student that he was beaten at a fraternity house.
Police on Friday charged 23-year-old Gene Whitner Milner III with felony false imprisonment and misdemeanor battery, his lawyer Manny Arora told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Saturday. Arora said Milner plans to turn himself in to police on Monday.
A police report says that an officer saw 18-year-old Stephen Spaseff running, crying and yelling for help as he ran down the middle of a street just before 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 15. His clothes were wet and dirty, and he had multiple cuts and a swollen right eye.
Spaseff, who was in town for the Nov. 14 Georgia-Auburn football game, told police he was held captive and beaten at the Chi Phi fraternity house.
The officer wrote in his report that he had trouble getting details from Spaseff because of the Clemson student's ``level of intoxication.''
``(Milner) was at the (fraternity) and commited the crime at the property that's all I will verify,'' University police Chief Jimmy Williamson told the Athens Banner-Herald.
``There were other people present and it appeared they were not involved,'' Williamson said. ``I'm not going to go into what they saw or what they said.''
Milner, who was last enrolled at UGA during the spring semester and is not a Chi Phi member, had a run-in at a bar near the fraternity house after Milner was hit in the face by a beer bottle thrown by one of three men, the police report says. Two of the men ran away, but Spaseff stayed put, Arora said.
Then Spaseff agreed to go with Milner to the Chi Phi house so Milner could call the police, Arora told the Journal-Constitution, adding that he doubted Milner was responsible for Spaseff's injuries.
``(Spaseff) admitted to being in a fight earlier with somebody. And we know he fell when he was leaving the fraternity house. But he didn't need any medical treatment,'' Arora said.
Police examined Milner's hands and saw no evidence of a fight, Arora said.
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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