Three members of the New York Mets have been accused of sexually assaulting a woman last year near the team's spring training camp, police say.
The Mets players were not identified by St. Lucie police on Thursday, and the club did not disclose their names."I have no comment on the report," general manager Al Harazin said.
The St. Petersburg Times today reported that Dwight Gooden's agent, Jim Neader, said the pitcher was aware that the woman had made allegations about him. Neader was quoted as saying "that allegations may surface, that they have been denied by all the parties involved, all the Mets players."
Neader, reached today, refused comment and referred questions to Joseph H. Ficarrotta, Gooden's lawyer. Ficarrotta could not be reached by phone. His office said he was traveling.
The woman, in her late 20s and a resident of New York state, filed a complaint on March 3 "about an alleged sexual battery which occurred sometime during the end of March 1991," a statement released by spokesman Lt. Dwight Hart said.
"The allegations are that three individuals, who are believed to be members of the New York Mets baseball team, committed the assault," the statement said.
The woman is a seasonal visitor to Port St. Lucie, the Mets' spring training home, Hart said.