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Guest of Reds player robbed at hotel

She was tied up Tuesday night

PITTSBURGH — Police were searching for a man who used cloth napkins to tie up and rob a female guest of Cincinnati Reds pitcher Aroldis Chapman inside his downtown Pittsburgh hotel room.

Police were called to the Omni William Penn Hotel after 10 p.m. Tuesday after other guests heard the woman screaming. The woman was identified only as a 26-year-old from Silver Spring, Md.

The woman told the police the man knocked on the door claiming to be a maintenance worker sent to fix her toilet before he demanded various items in the room, tied her up, then stole jewelry, clothes, a notebook computer, credit cards and identification. Police said some of the property belonged to the man assigned to the room. Police did not identify him, but the team said it was Chapman.

The 24-year-old Chapman defected from Cuba in 2009 and signed a six-year, $30.25 million deal with the Reds in January 2010.

The team did not make Chapman available for interviews before Wednesday’s game at PNC Park, the last of a three-game series with the Pirates. Team officials declined comment, other than to say they’re cooperating with the investigation.

In a news release, police identified the woman only as a “hotel guest of a male who attended the Pirates baseball game” Tuesday night. She was examined at UPMC Mercy hospital in Pittsburgh and briefly treated for having been tied up, police said.

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