Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 | 6:45 p.m.
Roger Mayweather, 48, the uncle and head trainer for unbeaten boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., was arrested in Las Vegas on Sunday on charges of coercion with force and battery via strangulation.
According to the police report, Melissa St. Vil, 25, a professional boxer whom Mayweather once trained, called 911 at 10:01 a.m. on Sunday and screamed out her address before the phone was disconnected.
When officers arrived, they found Mayweather in the kitchen behind St.
Vil with his arms around her. According to the report, St. Vil was coughing and spitting blood and had redness on her throat. Paramedics said they noticed defense wounds to the side of Mayweather’s face and a laceration on the top of his head.
The report said that St. Vil struck Mayweather on the head with a lamp as he was choking her. Paramedics reported to police that a broken lamp they discovered had blood on the inside of the lampshade.
The arrest puts in question Mayweather's ability to work his nephew’s corner for Mayweather Jr.’s Sept. 19 return to boxing against Juan Manuel Marquez at the MGM Grand Garden.
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