Crime & Safety
Orland Park Man Charged With Rape Appeared On MTV Show: Report
Connor Smith was on season 3 of the reality show "Are You The One" in 2015 and has been charged with sexually assaulting an Indiana girl.

ORLAND PARK, IL — The Orland Park man who was arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of an Indiana teenage girl formerly was a contestant on an MTV reality show, according to a published report.
Connor N. Smith, 31, has been charged with felony rape, sexual battery and two counts of criminal confinement after he was arrested last week. Police in Indiana said that Smith sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl.
Smith appeared on Season 3 of "Are You The One," US Weekly confirmed earlier this week. The show premiered in 2015 and was based on the premise that a group of single people are secretly matched into couples by producers, the magazine reported.
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The couples live together and are tasked with trying to figure out who was paired together with a $1 million prize at stake if they can figure it out.
Patch wrote about Smith in 2015. He was then living in Tinley Park, and his bio for the show described Smith as a "gentle giant" and someone whose "high energy and big ambitions often leave women in the dust."
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Police said that Smith sexually assaulted the girl in his truck and then raped her in a hotel room in Indiana. Police said that after sexually assaulting the girl, he dragged her into a hotel room by the hair and urinated on her.
Smith is currently awaiting extradition back to Indiana and is being held in the Cook County Jail.
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