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Mateen Cleaves left hotel room after police were called, witness says

FLINT, MI – A guest who called 911 to report a crying, hysterical woman screaming for help outside her motel room testified the woman's acquaintance – former basketball star Mateen Cleaves – left his hotel room before police arrived.

The witness, Coleen Dowdall, said she saw Cleaves grab the unclothed woman and take her back into a room earlier in the night.

Dowdall, another guest at the motel, testified Tuesday, Nov. 15, during a preliminary exam that Cleaves drove away from his room at the Knights Inn after she allowed the intoxicated woman into her room.

Woman testifies Mateen Cleaves twice grabbed woman and took her back to room

Woman testifies Mateen Cleaves twice grabbed woman and took her back to room

A woman staying at a Mundy Township motel testified she saw a woman twice flee from Mateen Cleaves and twice the former basketball star took her back into his hotel room.