Former three-weight world champion Gervonta Davis was arrested in Miami on Wednesday, two weeks after an arrest warrant was issued on multiple felony charges. Miami Gardens police confirmed Davis was taken into custody following a three-county surveillance operation carried out alongside the United States Marshals fugitive task force.
According to police, Davis was apprehended without incident in the Miami Design District and booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 10 p.m. Wednesday. The warrant, issued on January 14, lists charges of battery, false imprisonment, and attempted kidnapping stemming from an alleged incident on October 27.
Police allege Davis entered a strip club in Miami Gardens and confronted his ex-girlfriend, who worked there as a VIP cocktail server. The report states Davis took her into a back room, attacked and restrained her, then dragged her to the parking lot before eventually releasing her. The woman told police she had dated Davis for five months in 2025 after first meeting him in 2022, and that the relationship had ended prior to the incident.
The woman, Courtney Rossel, filed both a police report and a civil lawsuit against Davis. Her attorney said earlier this month that the criminal investigation aligned with the civil complaint and that multiple attempts to serve Davis had failed prior to the arrest warrant being issued.
Davis was training in October for a scheduled fight against Jake Paul at Miami’s Kaseya Center but was removed from the card after the lawsuit was filed and replaced by Anthony Joshua. He last fought in March, earning a draw against Lamont Roach Jr. Davis has a history of legal issues, including a 2023 sentence of probation and house arrest related to a hit-and-run case in Baltimore.
An update later confirmed Davis posted a $16,000 bond and was released from jail within hours of his arrest. It remains unclear how the Florida charges could affect his existing probation in Maryland, with his boxing future now uncertain.
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