BOWLING GREEN — A former football player at Bowling Green State University who was accused of putting a drug into a woman’s drink pleaded guilty Wednesday to a reduced charge.

Michael Minns II, 22, pleaded guilty to corrupting another with drugs, a third-degree felony, before Wood County Common Pleas Judge Matthew Reger.

He had been scheduled to go to trial this week on a second-degree felony.

A former defensive lineman from West Palm Beach, Fla., Minns was suspended from the team after his arrest late in 2015 for the incident, which occurred Nov. 22, 2015, at a downtown restaurant. He is no longer enrolled at BGSU, a spokesman for the university said Wednesday.

Judge Reger scheduled sentencing for April 14.

First Published February 9, 2017, 5:00 a.m.