January 29, 2026
He was was arrested on prices of battery, false imprisonment, and tried kidnapping.
After evading regulation enforcement for 2 weeks after authorities introduced an arrest warrant for him, boxer Gervonta Davis was arrested on prices of battery, false imprisonment, and tried kidnapping.
According to ESPN, the embattled fighter was apprehended in Miami, Jan. 28, after Miami Gardens law enforcement officials and the United States Marshals fugitive process drive had been looking for him in Florida. He was taken into custody with out incident. He is at the moment housed on the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
The prices stem from an incident that came about in October 2025.
Davis, who is thought to the boxing world as Tank, is accused of home violence after his former girlfriend, Courtney Rossel, filed a civil lawsuit towards the boxer in November. She accused him of battery, aggravated battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, and intentional infliction of emotional misery. A police report was filed on Nov. 3, with the Miami Gardens Police Department claiming that Davis allegedly assaulted Rossel at a gents’s membership named Tootsie, the place she labored as a VIP cocktail server. The alleged incident occurred in a again room of the membership the place there have been no cameras. She acknowledged that she was dragged by a stairwell, kitchen, and the again exit earlier than being bodily assaulted within the parking storage.
Tank isn’t any stranger to being in bother with the regulation. In August, after being arrested in July, following an accusation of hanging the mom of his two kids throughout a custody alternate, prosecutors dropped a domestic violence case after she refused to press prices towards the boxer.
Due to his latest points, the undefeated boxer is now a former world champion, because it was introduced that the fighter has been stripped of his World Boxing Association light-weight title shortly after law enforcement officials in Florida issued an arrest warrant. Tank, who has a document of 30-0-1, with 28 knockouts, has not fought since a controversial majority attract March 2025.
If convicted, he faces as much as a 12 months in jail and/or probation for battery, 5 years for false imprisonment, and a felony carrying a most 15-year sentence for tried kidnapping, with aggravating elements probably rising the penalties.
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