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LOGAN — A Utah State University offensive lineman was arrested Monday and accused of pulling a woman he did not know away from an event and raping her.
Kingsley Holliday, 22, of Draper, was booked into the Cache County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping, rape and forcible sodomy.
On Sept. 3, 2022, the North Park Police Department responded to a woman in the emergency room reporting a rape. She told police that while she was at an event venue a male "unknown to her" took her against her will to another location off the property, according to a police booking affidavit.
"The female described repetitively telling the male that she did not want to go, and wanted to go back to her friends. The female described the male grabbing her wrist and dragging her out of the building, across a parking lot, road and a ditch. She described being taken onto private property," police wrote in the document.
The woman told police she was raped by the man at the private property, and she received injuries during the incident, according to the affidavit.
"Witnesses placed Kingsley at the event venue at the night of the incident, and in close proximity to the victim. DNA evidence was collected, and has since been matched to Kingsley Holliday," police wrote.
When Holliday was taken into custody and interviewed, police say he "denied any involvement" but expressed concern that the woman might be pregnant, the affidavit states.
Police asked that he be held without bail, stating in the affidavit that "the event appears random and unplanned in nature," suggesting he poses a potential threat to others if released on bail, the affidavit states.
Holliday was also booked Monday for investigation of two counts of knowingly producing, dispensing or manufacturing a controlled substance. Confidential informants contacted the Cache Rich Drug Task Force on April 25 and May 2, both times informing them that Holliday was selling Adderall, police said.
Both times, the task force conducted controlled buys where the confidential informants met up with Holliday on the Utah State campus to exchange money for Adderall, according to an affidavit.
After the first drug deal, the confidential informant positively identified Holliday from a photo lineup, the affidavit states.
After the second drug deal, police examined the drugs Holliday sold using a pill identifier, police said. They identified them as methylphenidate, a schedule 2 controlled substance similar to Adderall.
Correction: A previous version incorrectly attributed statements from a police booking affidavit to charging documents. Holliday has not been formally charged.
