By Alicia Cruz
The Black Urban Times
The Las Vegas Metro police department arrested former WBC World Super Featherweight Champion Floyd Mayweather on a felony theft charge stemming from a domestic battery incident that allegedly occurred at this home, FoxNews reported.
According to media reports, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department showed up in force at Mayweather’s home early Friday morning after receiving a call at around 5:03 AM from a woman named Josie Harris who told responding officers the Michigan native attacked and threatened to kill her because he was upset over her relationship with another man.
The undefeated boxing champion, who surrendered to authorities Friday, was booked into the Clark County jail on a charge of grand larceny and briefly held before posting a $3,000 bond.
Mayweather's attorney, Richard Wright told ESPN that police charged his client with larceny after Harris, who is the mother of three of Mayweather's children, claimed that he took an iPhone from her.
In the State of Nevada, a grand-larceny charge can be lodged when the value of the goods in question is $250 or more.
"He did not commit any grand larceny," Wright told The Associated Press. "Josie can't find her iPhone. We're attempting to find it or replace it. We'll cooperate in the investigation. We expect to get the matter resolved." An iPhone typically costs less than $500.
The domestic battery charge has been turned over to the Clark County District Attorney's office for review.
TMZ reported that Harris, who sought a protection order from the Clark County Family Court, was treated and released from Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas after the incident.
The nine-page court document states that the couple separated in May after living together for seven years and dating "off and on" for 15 years. It further alleges that Mayweather pulled Harris's hair, punched her in the head and twisted her arm while she screamed for their children, ranging in age from 7 to almost 11, to alert 911.
"He yelled and screamed that he was going to kill me and my boyfriend," Harris wrote. "Floyd has threatened to have other people do harm to me as well and if [there] is a way I can be protected from that please help me."
A judge granted a 30-day protective order, which Mayweather was served with as he left the jail, Clark County Court spokeswoman Jillian Prieto told The Associated Press.
Five years ago, Harris, who claims Mayweather beat another former girlfriend, sought a protection order against Mayweather after she claimed he hit and kicked her during an argument outside a Las Vegas nightclub.
Mayweather was acquitted by a Nevada jury in July 2005 after Harris, then 25, recanted her allegations and testified that she lied to police because she was angry Mayweather left her for another woman.
Harris told jurors that Mayweather was a "teddy bear inside" and said she knew "no matter what I did, he would never put his hands on me."
Mayweather, named one of the "Richest and Powerful Sports Athletes of 2010" by Forbes magazine, has been arrested several times since 2002 on battery and violence charges in Las Vegas and in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In 2002, he was convicted of misdemeanor battery stemming from a fight with two women at a Las Vegas nightclub. He received a suspended one-year jail sentence and was ordered to undergo impulse-control counseling.
He was fined in Grand Rapids in February 2005 and ordered to perform community service after pleading no contest to misdemeanor assault and battery following another bar fight.
According to media reports, the Las Vegas Metro Police Department showed up in force at Mayweather’s home early Friday morning after receiving a call at around 5:03 AM from a woman named Josie Harris who told responding officers the Michigan native attacked and threatened to kill her because he was upset over her relationship with another man.
The undefeated boxing champion, who surrendered to authorities Friday, was booked into the Clark County jail on a charge of grand larceny and briefly held before posting a $3,000 bond.
Mayweather's attorney, Richard Wright told ESPN that police charged his client with larceny after Harris, who is the mother of three of Mayweather's children, claimed that he took an iPhone from her.
In the State of Nevada, a grand-larceny charge can be lodged when the value of the goods in question is $250 or more.
"He did not commit any grand larceny," Wright told The Associated Press. "Josie can't find her iPhone. We're attempting to find it or replace it. We'll cooperate in the investigation. We expect to get the matter resolved." An iPhone typically costs less than $500.
The domestic battery charge has been turned over to the Clark County District Attorney's office for review.
TMZ reported that Harris, who sought a protection order from the Clark County Family Court, was treated and released from Southern Hills Hospital in Las Vegas after the incident.
The nine-page court document states that the couple separated in May after living together for seven years and dating "off and on" for 15 years. It further alleges that Mayweather pulled Harris's hair, punched her in the head and twisted her arm while she screamed for their children, ranging in age from 7 to almost 11, to alert 911.
"He yelled and screamed that he was going to kill me and my boyfriend," Harris wrote. "Floyd has threatened to have other people do harm to me as well and if [there] is a way I can be protected from that please help me."
A judge granted a 30-day protective order, which Mayweather was served with as he left the jail, Clark County Court spokeswoman Jillian Prieto told The Associated Press.
Five years ago, Harris, who claims Mayweather beat another former girlfriend, sought a protection order against Mayweather after she claimed he hit and kicked her during an argument outside a Las Vegas nightclub.
Mayweather was acquitted by a Nevada jury in July 2005 after Harris, then 25, recanted her allegations and testified that she lied to police because she was angry Mayweather left her for another woman.
Harris told jurors that Mayweather was a "teddy bear inside" and said she knew "no matter what I did, he would never put his hands on me."
Mayweather, named one of the "Richest and Powerful Sports Athletes of 2010" by Forbes magazine, has been arrested several times since 2002 on battery and violence charges in Las Vegas and in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
In 2002, he was convicted of misdemeanor battery stemming from a fight with two women at a Las Vegas nightclub. He received a suspended one-year jail sentence and was ordered to undergo impulse-control counseling.
He was fined in Grand Rapids in February 2005 and ordered to perform community service after pleading no contest to misdemeanor assault and battery following another bar fight.
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