LOGAN — A 25-year-old former USU football player has admitted to selling prescription drugs around campus and raping a woman during a party. Kingsley Krey Holliday was originally arrested in July 2023 and booked into the Cache County Jail, following an investigation by the North Park Police Department.
According to court records, Kingsley appeared Sept. 29 in Logan’s 1st District Court. He pleaded “no contest” to two counts of aggravated assault and forcible sexual abuse, a second-degree felonies; along with pleading guilty to obstruction of justice, also a second-degree felony; three counts of sexual battery, possession of a prescription drug for any unlawful purpose, all class A misdemeanors. A remaining charge was dismissed.
The no contest plea meant Holiday conceded the alleged crimes occurred without admitting guilt or offering a defense. It is still viewed as a guilty plea in court.
According to prosecutors, police officers were called to a hospital emergency room on a reported rape on Sept. 3, 2022. The victim explained she was at an “event,” when an unknown man took her against her will to another location and raped her.
The woman told police the man, later identified as Holliday, grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the building, across a parking lot, road, and a ditch. He then forcibly sodomized and raped her.
Investigators report, witnesses placed Holliday at the event on the night of the incident. DNA evidence was collected from the victim and later matched the defendant’s.
The September event was being held in Hyde Park. It was not sanctioned by the school or football team.
As North Park Police were investigating Holliday for rape, the Cache Rich Drug Taskforce were contacted in April 2024 by a confidential informant, explaining how the football player was selling Adderall pills. The informant described how they had made arrangements to purchase multiple pills for an agreed upon amount.
The exchange occurred near 777 N. 800 E. within 100 feet of the Logan campus. Law enforcement concluded the location is a drug free zone, based on it taking place during school hours.
In May, agents report they conducted another controlled buy with Holliday for additional Adderall pills. The buy was conducted on the Utah State campus during school hours. The pills were later determined to be Methylphenidate, a prescription drug used to treat ADHD, similar to Adderall.
According to USU’s football roster, Holiday was a junior offensive lineman, who walked onto the team after playing at Snow College. He never played for the team, and was immediately dismissed after being arrested.
Holliday is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 10, and could face up to 15 years in prison.