Delaware- Delaware State University’s new band director has been placed on paid administrative leave following his arrest after allegedly sexually assaulting a male student off campus.
Miguel A. Bonds, 31, of the 300 block of Linkside Drive in Magnolia, was charged Sunday night by state police with second-degree rape, two counts of third-degree unlawful sexual contact and providing alcohol to a minor.
He is being held in the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna in lieu of $12,100 bail. He faces a preliminary hearing Friday.
According to court records, Bonds invited a 20-year-old student to his apartment after Saturday night’s football game and the two watched the movie “History of Violence.”
Then Bonds offered the student a drink containing vodka.
He quickly became woozy and Bonds put on a pornographic movie and performed oral sex on him, police said.
The student reported the incident to police Sunday after waking up on the floor of Bonds’ apartment naked and nauseous.
He told police that Bonds called his cell phone after he left to ask him if he remembered anything, state police spokesman Cpl. Jeff Oldham said.
The student “told him no and hung up,” police said in court records.
DSU spokesman Carlos Holmes said the university is “saddened and extremely distressed about the allegations.”
“But our first concern is our students,” he said.
University officials also are investigating the incident, Holmes said.
Bonds, who was assistant band director at Stillman College in Tuscaloosa, Ala., before being hired by DSU in the spring, replaced former band director H. Wade Johnson, who resigned in 2005.