Bemidji State basketball player faces criminal sexual conduct charges involving 15-year-old girl

BEMIDJI — A 22-year-old member of the Bemidji State men's basketball team from Sun Prairie, Wis., has been charged with two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after allegedly engaging in sexual conduct with a 15-year-old girl he met online.

According to the criminal complaint, a 15-year-old girl provided a statement to law enforcement in early October in regards to a child sexual abuse investigation. The girl stated that she met a man named Colin Schaefer, later identified as 22-year-old Colin Thomas Rudolph Schaefer, of Sun Prairie, Wis., on Tinder and Snapchat.

In her statement, the girl said that the two had sex in a vehicle Schaefer was driving near Lake Avenue in Bemidji, according to the complaint. She stated it was the second time they had sex.

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