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Former baseball star Jose Canseco plays during Brad Garrett’s Maximum Hope Foundation Poker Tournament at the Tropicana on Sept. 17, 2011.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013 | 10:48 a.m.
Claims by former Major League Baseball player Jose Canseco that sexual assault allegations against him have been dropped are false, according to Metro Police.
Canseco, who is a Las Vegas resident, indicated Wednesday on Twitter that he had passed a polygraph and that police had dropped all charges against him in a May 22 sexual assault case. Officer Larry Hadfield, a Metro Police spokesman, however, said Canseco remained part of an ongoing investigation.
"Whatever he puts out on his social media is by him,” Hadfield said.
On May 22, Metro reported Canseco was a suspect in the alleged sexual assault.
Canseco, a former all-star and 1988 American League Most Valuable Player, was in the majors from 1985 until 2001. The 2005 book “Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits & How Baseball Got Big,” is Jose Canseco’s tell-all about steroids in the major leagues.
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