
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, May 22, 1993                   TAG: 9305220112
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: HERNDON                                LENGTH: Short

EX-REDSKIN DEAN ARRESTED

Vernon Dean, a former defensive back for the Washington Redskins, has been charged with rape and sodomy for allegedly attacking a woman in his car early Thursday.

Dean, who lives in Reston, surrendered Thursday.

But his attorney, David Hall, told reporters outside the Fairfax County courthouse that Dean is innocent.

"We're confident he's going to be acquitted," Hall said.

Dean, 34, played for the Redskins from 1982 to 1987. He is free on $20,000 bond. Another ex-Redskin, Dexter Manley, was with Dean when he turned himself in, but police and prosecutors said Friday that Manley is not connected with the case.

Sgt. Ron Thunman of the Herndon Town Police said police responded to an apartment complex parking lot about 2 a.m. Thursday, and were told by a 21-year-old woman that she had been assaulted in a car.

Thunman said Dean was identified at the scene, but police did not charge him until after several hours of investigation.

Thunman said the woman does not know Dean. He would not discuss how the woman happened to be in Dean's 1987 Mercedes, as police claim she was.

When Dean learned there was a warrant for his arrest, he turned himself in at Fairfax County's Reston District Station, near his home, Thunman said. Fairfax police took him to Herndon. His bond was $10,000 for each charge.

Fairfax Commonwealth's Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr., said the maximum penalty for Dean's charges, one count each of rape and sodomy, is life in prison.

by CNB