No arrest has been made in connection with an off-campus rape complaint filed last week, according to police.
Capt. Alex Minor of Binghamton’s New York State University Police confirmed that the agency received a complaint shortly after 1 a.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 27. The location named in the complaint was 23 Henry St., according to Minor.
Minor said that the department is “checking the validity of the complaint,” and declined to release any details, including any identities connected to the alleged incident.
“Generally speaking, if we get a rape complaint we look at all the circumstances,” he added. “Sometimes it comes down to he-said, she-said. Sometimes it’s enough to make an arrest, sometimes it’s not.”
An arrest had not been made as of yesterday afternoon, Minor said.
Members of the social fraternity Pi Lambda Phi live at 23 Henry St., a multi-home apartment building. The fraternity hosted a social event at the building the night the complaint was filed, said fraternity President Matt Katz.
“We don’t know much of the whole story,” Katz said, adding that the fraternity was cooperative with the police and that the fraternity used “all necessary precautions” for the event.
Katz said that the complaint had to do with one of the guests at the gathering, rather than a brother.
“It had nothing to do with a brother in the fraternity, it had to do with an outsider that came to the house that night,” he said.
Katz, who said he did not know full details of the alleged incident, said that neither he nor his fraternity members were aware of anything happening at the time.
Binghamton University spokeswoman Gail Glover said she believed the complaint was an off-campus issue and did not comment further.