Darren Sharper Rape Case: NFL Great Confessed To Sex Assaults, Police Report Says

Darren Sharper, the retired NFL superstar now accused of raping eight women in five different states, confessed to two of those rapes in private conversations, a New Orleans police report says. Sharper is currently jailed in Los Angeles where he faces two other rape charges. Last week, police in Louisiana issued an arrest warrant for Sharper based on two rapes he is accused of committing there.

According to the allegations leveled at Darren Sharper in all of the cases, the former All Pro defender who played 14 seasons in the National Football League drugged his victims by giving them drinks spiked with a substance believed to be the sleeping medication Ambien. When the victims passed out, Sharper would then sexually assault them.

That was the case in both of the New Orleans rapes of which Sharper is accused. Both women, identified only as Victims #1 and #2, passed out suddenly after taking drinks offered them by Sharper, then woke up to find Darren Sharper nude, on top of them, having sexual intercourse with them.

Whatever was in those drinks incapacitated the women to the point that “both do not recall the entirety of the sexual intercourse,” according to the sworn report by New Orleans Detective Derrick Williams.

An acquaintance of 38-year-old Darren Sharper, Erick Nunez, 27, has also been charged in connection with the New Orleans rape accusations.

In the detective’s sworn statement, he said that Darren Sharper confessed to other people, not named by police, that he had had sex with the two unconscious women “without their knowledge or permission.”

Darren Sharper pled not guilty on February 20 to the two rape charges in Los Angeles and his lawyers say that all of the rapes he allegedly committed were, in fact, consensual sexual encounters.

The alleged victims were simply, “women who wanted to be in his company, who voluntarily ingested alcohol and drugs in many cases,” Darren Sharper’s laywer Leonard Levine said in an L.A. court at a February hearing.

When he was hit with the New Orleans warrants, Darren Sharper who has a reported net worth of $8 million offered to pay for his own flight back to Louisiana where he would turn himself in. But New Orleans police turned him down, fearing that he might flee instead.

“This police department was not willing to negotiate with Sharper’s attorneys considering the dire seriousness of these allegations,” said New Orleans Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas.

If he is formally extradited, Darren Sharper would be flown at state expense back to New Orleans in handcuffs, accompanied by officers. Sharper faces an extradition hearing Friday in Los Angeles.