Probes Clear Tyson

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson will not be charged with sexual assault in two separate cases in Las Vegas, prosecutors said Thursday.

“It was simply unclear whether the sexual interaction between each of the two alleged victims and Mr. Tyson was consensual or forced,” Clark County prosecutors wrote in a Thursday letter to Las Vegas police.

Prosecutors said there was no question sexual relations occurred between Tyson and the two women, but said there was “no possibility whatsoever” to successfully prosecute Tyson in either case.

“His position, of course, is it’s consensual. Their position is, of course, it’s not,” Clark County District Attorney Stewart Bell said. “It’s just not clear. It could have been either. I don’t suppose we’ll ever really know the truth.”

Ten prosecutors reviewed the evidence gathered since police began investigating Tyson in September.

They said the police investigation was so thorough that there was nothing more police could have done, or do in the future, that would warrant charges.

Tyson himself won’t comment, spokesman Scott Miranda said.

Police sought arrest warrants from prosecutors for Tyson on multiple counts of sexual assault in each case.

In the first case, police began investigating Tyson in mid-September, after a Las Vegas woman went to a hospital with injuries that she said were suffered when the boxer raped her at his home.

Chief Deputy District Attorney Doug Herndon has said the woman had been in a six-month romantic relationship with Tyson.

The second woman went to police Dec. 28 and reported that she also had been attacked at Tyson’s home in November 2000.