SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A champion bodybuilder accused of raping a woman has turned himself in after an arrest warrant was issued earlier this month.

Court records indicate Shawn Rhoden attended a court hearing Tuesday in a Salt Lake City suburb and was booked into a county jail. He remained behind bars Tuesday afternoon. His bail was lowered to $250,000, down from $750,000 in the July 11 arrest warrant.

The 2018 winner of the Mr. Olympia bodybuilding competition in Nevada is charged with rape and forcible sexual abuse of a woman who regarded Rhoden as her “body-building mentor” in a Utah hotel room on Oct. 12.

A judge ordered the 44-year-old from Santa Barbara, California, not to have contact with the woman.

Rhoden’s attorney, Lawrence Sleight, didn’t immediately return a phone call.

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