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Aroldis Chapman's Hotel Room Robbed, Woman Found Tied Up

(WSCR) Things just keep getting most weird for Reds left-hander Arolids Chapman.

First, there was the arrest for driving 93 mph, then, there was the $18 million lawsuit for a Cuban conviction. Now, according to reports, a robber ransacked Chapman's hotel room late Tuesday night and tied up a 26-year-old woman inside, leaving her crying for help. Two hotel guests heard the woman's screams.

Here's the report from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

The guests, who were staying in a room on the same floor, went into the hallway to see what was going on saw the woman inside an open room with her hands bound by cloth napkins, police spokeswoman Diane Richard wrote in a news release.

She did not identify the woman, but said she was from Silver Spring, Md., and was "the hotel guest of a male who attended the Pirates baseball game and who was not present at the time of the incident. During this incident the male guest had various items taken and was later interviewed by detectives," the news release said.

The woman, who was taken to UPMC Mercy, told police she answered a knock at the door to find a man claiming to be from the hotel's maintenance department, there to fix a toilet.

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