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3rd arrest made in Rock Hill teen sex, alcohol case

By Jonathan McFadden
jmcfadden@heraldonline.com

ROCK HILL A third Rock Hill man was arrested in connection with a two-months-old criminal sexual conduct investigation after police accused two other men of giving alcohol to two teenage girls and then having sex with them.

Tysean Coleman, 20, of 1544 Maypine Commons Way was arrested this weekend and charged with contributing to the deliquency of minor, according to a Rock Hill police report. Authorities in September arrested Tasjuan Jovon Johnson, 24, and Daniel Bernard Cherry, 21, charging them both with second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor. Both were released on $25,000 bonds.

On Sept. 1, police were called to Market Place Apartments in reference to an intoxicated 14-year-old girl. When they arrived, they found that the girl vomiting, smelled like alcohol and was barely coherent, according to a Rock Hill police report.

Paramedics took the girl to Piedmont Medical Center, where she received a sexual assault exam.

Police spoke with a witness who said the girl fell out of a car that had two or three men inside, the report states.

Detectives took a statement from another witness, who said the girl might have been assaulted somewhere in the College Downs neighborhood.

Some time later, police spoke with Cherry, 21, who admitted that he had sex with a teenage girl, according to the report.

Police interviewed the victim, who said Johnson, also known as “Little Sleep,” picked her and a 13-year-old girl up, bought alcohol for them and drove them to a home on Gilmore Road in Rock Hill, where Cherry and another man whose identity is unknown were waiting, the report states.

The 14-year-old told police she did not remember the incident, the report says, but the 13-year-old said Cherry and Johnson had sex with them.


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