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Well, the article I read was from the Tampa Times. As I said in my edit above, I don't know how this works in terms of police reports and the media. But it repeatedly refers to "the police report". I imagine you'd have to be pretty careful throwing that phrase out there if it's not accurate.
The Orlando Sentinel has a very similar article also refering to the UPD report:
Former UF QB Jalon Jones accused of sexual battery
So we have a few explanation of how this could happen some much more likely than others:
1. The two different reporters saw a copy of the police report and accurately reported on it.
2. One of the two reporters plagiarized the other.
3. The two reporters got together to make up a story.
4. The two reporters randomly made up the same story, but never talked to each other about it.
5. The two reporters are the same person writing for two different papers under different names.
Personally until I have some reason other than a poster ranting to believe something different, I am going with explanation 1 above.