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No evidence of drugs in Bahamas rape case

MIAMI, Dec. 29 (UPI) -- Police in the Bahamas say blood tests on two teens who say a Florida International University baseball star and his friends raped them found no sign of drugs.

Police said they conducted the blood tests to see if the young women had been slipped a date-rape drug, The Miami Herald reported Wednesday.

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The tests showed they had been drinking, police said.

FIU slugger Garrett Wittels, 20, and Jonathan Oberti and Robert Rothschild, both 21, have been charged with raping the two 17-year-old American tourists Dec. 20.

The three admit having sex with the women, but insist it was consensual.

Bahamian Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez said the arrests were made Dec. 20 at the Atlantis Resort Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas.

Wittels, who holds the second-longest hitting streak in NCAA baseball history, and the two other men were released on $10,000 bail after a court hearing, Gomez said.

Michael Wittels, the player's father, said his son would be vindicated, alleging video surveillance cameras show the girls willingly accompanied the men to a hotel room.

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