Reporter got creepy Justin Tucker tip before disturbing sexual misconduct accusations

One NFL reporter said he was tipped off about Ravens kicker Justin Tucker’s alleged “creepy” behavior before the Baltimore Banner revealed its investigation accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior by six female massage therapists between 2012-16 on Thursday.Benjamin Allbright, a Broncos insider for KOA Colorado, posted a screenshot of alleged direct messages from an unnamed sender who told him to look into Tucker and massage parlors.Tucker denied the allegations and said they are “unequivocally false” in a statement Thursday.“Got tipped off to this earlier this week and was looking into,” Allbright wrote, including the Baltimore Banner’s report.“It looks like a lot of the information here corroborates what I came up with.”The anonymous source told Allbright he “might wanna check around with Baltimore sources about some sort of article coming out about Justin Tucker and massage parlors, nothing criminal as far as I know just more on the creepy side and him being removed from those type of establishments a few times.”“Thanks.

I’ll look into here in a few,” Allbright responded.Another message from Allbright to the person read, “There’s truth to this.” They replied with, “Seems like he’s had issues for years.”Allbright said he was working on his own story about Tucker in a separate exchange with another X user, who asked why he shared the alleged messages.“In this particular case because I was working on the story and had been working on the story for days and the information contained therein is something I hadn’t compared with the people who got the story, but corroborates what I had found on my own,” Allbright said.“In this particular case, it’s me telling you that I’m corroborating what those people found based on my own independent investigation.” Allbright added, “It’s been an open secret for years, apparently.

I simply found out about it on Tuesday morning.”The Baltimore Banner said it received...