Floyd Mayweather Jr. faces charges in domestic dispute
Unbeaten former world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was charged with four felonies and four misdemeanors Thursday after his arrest last week in an incident involving his ex-girlfriend and children in Las Vegas.
According to a criminal complaint filed in Nevada, Mayweather faces two felony counts of coercion, one felony robbery count, one grand larceny count and misdemeanor counts of domestic battery and harassment.
A criminal complaint that emerged this week alleged Mayweather threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend Josie Harris, pulled her hair and threw her to the floor. The complaint said Mayweather was at the home on the morning of Sept. 9 to visit his children and drop off $200 in “tooth fairy” money for his daughter. In a visit hours later he argued with Harris, and the complaint alleged Mayweather told Harris he’d make her and her boyfriend “disappear.”
The felony coercion counts allege Mayweather threatened to beat his two sons if they left the residence or called 911 during the boxer’s alleged verbal and physical attack of Harris.
A Clark County, Nev., spokesman said that if found guilty, Mayweather could face a maximum of 30-plus years behind bars and fines in excess of $20,000.
Mayweather, 33, is due to appear for an initial appearance at Las Vegas Justice Court on Nov. 9 — the same week his rival Manny Pacquiao will fight Antonio Margarito in a Nov. 13 junior-middleweight bout in Texas. That fight served as a replacement bout when Mayweather failed to strike a deal to fight Pacquiao in a mega-bout between the sport’s top two pound-for-pound fighters.
Mayweather’s attorney last week denied the boxer had committed any crimes.
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