Prosecuters say police drove Cleaves home after reported assault

FLINT, Mich. - Prosecutors say officers drove former Michigan State basketball star Mateen Cleaves to his home after police responded to a reported sexual assault of a woman at a Flint-area motel.

The Flint Journal reports that Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Lisa Lindsey made the statement to a judge during a hearing Thursday.

Defense attorney Frank Manley later told reporters that the officers' actions showed they ''saw nothing that would rise to the level of some type of crime.''

The 39-year-old Cleaves is charged with assaulting the woman at a Mundy Township motel last summer following a charity golf outing. He denies the charge.

Wayne County prosecutors are handling the case after Genesee County's prosecutor did not take it due to a possible conflict of interest.