“That thing was blown so far out of proportion,” he said. “Of course we’re going to take a look at somebody arrested like that, but he was pretty much eliminated right off the bat. He was tenuous at best.”
Police extradited Kang in Michigan in June after he was arrested on the sexual battery charge. His attorney Firooz Namei said his client’s case, and circumstances surrounding it, have been misconstrued and he is working to get the “excessive” $250,000 bond reduced to $5,000.
He said Kang was at a party in Oxford where he and the alleged victim “talked most of the night” and eventually wound up in bed together. Kang awoke at 3 a.m. and left to open his uncle’s gas station in Fairfield, which is near Markham’s apartment. Namei said police asked for a DNA sample and Kang complied. He said he never heard another peep about the Oxford incident until he was stopped at the border on his way to Canada for a “Kabaddi” sporting tournament. He said he thinks that’s why the bond was set so high.
“I think they thought he was going to run away, but nobody knew this thing was coming down,” Namei said. “I don’t know why they waited over a year to press charges against him… The charge is not rape, it’s sexual battery, they said she was too drunk to give consent.”
After the alleged Oxford incident Kang continued working at the gas station until April of this year when he enrolled in a commercial driver’s license course in California. He arrived back in Fairfield in May.
Assistant Prosecutor David Kash who will be prosecuting the case, said the police did not get DNA match results until early this year, thus the delayed indictment. Kang has been held in the Butler County Jail since his arrest on the $250,000 bond set by the Area I Court.
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