Ex-UM QB Marve facing sex assault, battery allegations

Former Hurricanes quarterback Robert Marve is facing allegations of battery and sexual assault, according to a report in the Tampa Bay Times.

Channing Tomes, who is reportedly Marve’s ex-girlfriend, filed for a temporary injunction for dating violence on Monday, Hillsborough County court documents show.

Marve has not been charged with any crimes and his attorney, Daniel Fernandez, told the Times that Marve denies the allegations. Fernandez also said the former quarterback would not be opposed to a restraining order.

The court documents indicate Tomes’ petition is scheduled to be heard by a judge Thursday.

According to the Times, in that petition, Tomes described two incidents in which she said Marve hit her in the face, chest and body and stomped on her throat. She also said one incident, which allegedly occurred in May, included Marve sexually assaulting her at his home in Tampa.

The second incident reportedly happened in Key West, where Tomes and Marve traveled together earlier this month. There, the Times wrote, Tomes told police Marve stomped on her throat and left her gasping for air after he saw an Instagram message from another man on her phone.

The report also says that on July 7, a Key West police officer was dispatched to the airport after a deputy saw Tomes there with “bruises all over her face, neck and legs.” Deputies allowed Tomes to board a flight while detaining Marve, who eventually left the airport in an Uber car.

Key West police told the Times that Marve was not arrested and the incident remains under investigation.

“[Marve] is psychotically obsessed and told me he would kill me, has informed that even if I go away, he will find me," Tomes said in her petition, according to the newspaper.

Marve, who played two seasons in the Canadian Football League and and has reportedly worked both at the Tampa Sports Academy and with quarterbacks at his alma mater, Tampa Plant, had a short, tumultuous career with the Hurricanes.

Though he started 11 games for Miami in 2008, he was suspended twice that season. The first suspension, for the Hurricanes’ season opener, stemmed from an October 2007 incident in which Marve was arrested for minor criminal mischief and resisting arrest without violence. Prosecutors opted not to pursue the case, the Sun Sentinel reported in 2008.

Marve’s second suspension came at the end of the season when he was held out of the Emerald Bowl for what then-UM coach Randy Shannon termed a violation of team rules.

All of that came after Marve missed the 2007 season while recovering from injuries sustained in a car accident earlier that year.

Marve eventually left Miami after the 2008 season and transferred to Purdue, where he played three seasons.