College football: Michigan State spring football game - April 1, 2017

Michigan State defensive end Auston Robertson (94) talks with teammates during their 2017 spring football game at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, on Saturday, April 1, 2017. The defense won the game, 33-23.

(Mike Mulholland | MLive.com)

EAST LANSING -- An alleged January sexual assault by three Michigan State football players was brought to the attention of Mark Dantonio by former team member Auston Robertson, a member of the school's Board of Trustees told a west Michigan radio talk show host.

Mitch Lyons, a Michigan State trustee from Rockford, said on The Huge Show on Tuesday on WBBL-FM in Grand Rapids that Robertson referenced the alleged assault during a January meeting with Dantonio.

Robertson was later kicked off the team after for a separate alleged sexual assault case.

"When Auston Robertson came into his office for a regularly weekly meeting, Coach D asked him the regular questions he typically asks him, and then he became a little emotional and didn't even go into details," Lyons said during an appearance on the show Tuesday afternoon. "He alluded to the fact that something happened, and Coach D had a sense that it involved some sort of sexual allegation, and he immediately said 'Don't say anything more.'"

That alleged incident eventually led to sexual assault charges against Donnie Corley, Josh King and Demetric Vance, filed this week by the Ingham County Prosecutor.

Robertson was not a subject of the initial January alleged incident. He was later charged with sexual assault in a separate, unrelated incident

Robertson, who was arraigned on that charge on April 25 in 55th District Court in Mason, is free on bond and has a preliminary hearing scheduled for June 22.

In a message to MLive, Lyons later said that he "completely misspoke" and "multiple cases going on and get confusing at times."

Robertson's attorney, David Rosenberg of Southfield, told MLive today that he could neither confirm nor deny any role his client played in reporting the alleged January incident.

The version of events offered by Lyons mirrors that detailed by the Jones Day report, an external law firm investigation commissioned by Michigan State to investigate whether Michigan State staff members complied with school policy in regards to the alleged incident.

That report, released this week, stated that an unnamed player became emotional during a January meeting with Dantonio, and said "I had to get her out of there. She is my friend."

The report states Dantonio, at that point, stopped the meeting and contacted Michigan State's Office of Institutional Equity. The report found that Dantonio fully complied with university policy.

The Michigan State University Police have not released any reports regarding their investigation into the alleged incident. Testimony during a warrant request hearing on Tuesday morning by detective Chad Davis about the alleged incident did not mention Robertson.

Lyons, a former Michigan State football player, went on to condemn the alleged actions of the three players.

"Much to what Coach D said, criminal or not, but the actions they've already admitted to doing, from a moral standpoint, are disgusting and have no place in our university. I completely agree with him on that.

Brian Mosallam, a trustee from Dearborn, released a statement that said "trustee Lyons, once again, has damaged the university by his words and actions."