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Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr., center, is greeted by unidentified friends, as he exits the Clark County Detention Center after posting bail on a grand larceny charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint, Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 in Las Vegas. Mayweather’s lawyer, Richard Wright, says the charge stems from an allegation that Mayweather took an iPhone from Josie Harris, his ex-girlfriend and mother of three of his children.
Published Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 | 12:15 p.m.
Updated Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 | 5:40 p.m.
Josie Harris is seen here with Floyd Mayweather Jr. on April 14, 2010, at his gym in Las Vegas. Mayweather Jr. was arrested in Las Vegas on a felony theft charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint by his ex-girlfriend.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was jailed briefly Friday on a felony charge after his ex-girlfriend alleged he beat her and stole her cell phone during an argument in front of their three children.
Mayweather, 33, said nothing as he was released from the Clark County jail on $3,000 bail after being booked on a grand larceny charge. He could face up to five years in state prison if he is convicted of taking items valued at less than $2,500.
He is scheduled for an initial appearance Nov. 9 in Las Vegas Justice Court.
Mayweather's lawyer, Richard Wright, denied Mayweather was guilty of the criminal charges based on allegations by Josie Harris.
"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.
In a request for a Clark Court Family Court protection order, Harris said Mayweather threatened to kill her in a confrontation about 5 a.m. Thursday at a home she says is listed in his name in southwest Las Vegas.
She said he was angry about her a relationship with another man.
The document says Harris and Mayweather lived together for seven years and separated in May after 15 "on and off" years.
It says Harris sought another protection order five years ago and alleges that Mayweather battered another former girlfriend. The document does not mention an iPhone.
Harris also filed a police complaint Thursday. It has not been made public.
The nine-page request for a protection order alleges 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 call 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."
Police said Thursday that Harris was treated at a Las Vegas hospital for minor injuries.
A judge granted a 30-day protective order and Mayweather was served with a copy of the document when he was released from jail, Clark County courts spokeswoman Jillian Prieto said.
Mayweather is considered one of the sport's top performers, with a record of 41-0 and 25 knockouts. He goes by the nickname "Money" and earned more than $20 million in May from his fight in Las Vegas against "Sugar" Shane Mosley.
Mayweather made headlines earlier this month with an online video laced with expletives and sometimes racial rants against boxing rival and Philippine sensation Manny Pacquiao, who faces Antonio Margarito on Nov. 13 at Cowboys Stadium near Dallas.
Fans have called for Mayweather to fight Pacquiao in what could be the richest fight in boxing history, but negotiations have stalled amid suggestions from Mayweather's camp that Pacquiao has used performance-enhancing drugs. Pacquiao responded with a defamation lawsuit that is still pending.
Mayweather said during the video that he's on vacation "for about a year" and would easily defeat Pacquiao after that.
Pacquiao dismissed Mayweather's video as an "uneducated message," and Pacquiao's trainer, Freddie Roach, labeled it "a really cheap low blow."
Mayweather has been arrested several times since 2002 in battery and violence cases in Las Vegas and in his hometown of Grand Rapids, Mich.
He was convicted in 2002 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 for a bar fight.
He was acquitted by a Nevada jury in July 2005 after being accused of hitting and kicking Harris during an argument outside a Las Vegas nightclub.
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."
kinda sounds like the Tre'von Willis case
if Mayweather really hit her, she would be KTFO or dead.
tom duh - mayweather is a tiny guy, he's not as hard hitting as people think. anybody with some basic MMA training would destroy may in a real fight. thats fact. the only reason he wins in the boxing ring is cause he's super fast and he dances around avoiding the other fighter the whole time. he's scared of manny cause he knows manny would catch him. lock him up or make him fight manny(for free) to stay out of prison. better yet throw him in the octagon and see what happens to him, wouldnt be pretty
Karma.
He looks pretty devastated about the charges against him in his mug shot!!
Did he make it through the arrest, booking process, and release in less that 3 hours ala' Paris HIlton? If not, he must not be that big of a celebrity.
Karma ditto. Stay off the Internet video rants.
hahahah f u mayweather midget. fight manny or quit already.
Hey, Floyd, ok, we got the message, now we all know, you're hot for iPhone and that's ok, but you cannot go on like that, you know, running around chasing iPhones.
I mean, what's next for you, ...trying to get Obama's BlackBerry? (Don't even think about it ...:)
A man no matter what should never hit a woman. Floyd evidently cared and she cared about him to have 3 children. Floyd: time to grow up! Be a man and not a horrible example to your children. Violence does not beget violence and you could have seriously injured the mother of your children. Your hands if you are as good as you say should be classified as lethal weapons. What would you say to your children if you killed their mother? Sorry?! Get real!!!
Do the boxing authorities need to step in put some restraints on this guy, just like the Steelers did to Ben R., the quarterback? Out of control, rich athletes need some limits....and some HUMILITY!
its funny that he cried foul cuz manny would not submit to all the drug tests and other BS he was trying to pull but had no problem with sugar shane (who owns part of the promotion co.) I mean this guy is a jerk in every sense and any boxing mathces in the future should have a stipulation that he cant beat on a woman for six months before the fight.
lol rebel and primetime why don't you go into the ring with him then, mayweather broke 7ft 400lb wrestler paul wights nose playacting ffs, tyson also went around with a ton of bodyguards too
yes mayweather would lose an mma fight, thats not his area, put any mma fighter his size in a boxing match and he would kill them, and that includes gsp
Just BOY being BOy, this is how he enjoys a Family Vacation!!!
Here is the Floyd Mayweather Jr White America never gets to see...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi3LrdjXXGM
If he hit her then he's a punk. Only a punk would hit a woman.
Maybe Manny should wear a dress and a wig in the ring and Mayweather will finally agree to fight him.
Floyd, take a lesson from Muhammad Ali and be a good role model.
What's wrong with you?
Fame comes and goes, money comes and goes, it's all up to you.
Your predictable future is jail time acting this way.
Yeah, but how long did he spend in the booking process?
Incognito and primetime
Mayweather world dismantle both of you guys so fast your flip flops and tapout t-shirts would spin. I guarantee you wouln't step in the ring with that man and live.First exchange and you would poo yourselves. I do admit he would get hugged to death in the UFC though.
fools.
Mayweather please face the Pacman...
Its time, if you truley were as good a fighter as Ali this match would have been done by now.
wtf
I saw that video. How full of oneself can someone be?
If it's phony promotion it sucks, if it's for real, it's sad.
Really dude, get a hold of yourself.
You're just not that important in the big scheme of things.
Say hello to Paris Hilton. Two peas in a pod.
Don't talk any bs, guys. Floyd is still a great fighter in his class of weight.
But I also think it's time for him to fight Manny, instead of hurting his wife.
Come on, it's your turn, Floyd, to fight the Pacman, no matter whether or not Manny is completely coked-up or not.
Never again hit your wife.
I think Money Mayweather should fight Bjork! She beat that Asian reporters butt!!!
Any man that has to use violence to prove his manhood is a punk. Machismo is not what the world is all about. Floyd Mayweather is a punk nobody wanting to be a somebody; racial slurs, domestic violence and grand larceny are his way of trying to prove he is a man, but can't becasue he is a mental midget. His lawyer, a fast talking, blabbering goon of a lawyer will do anything and say anthing to get a client freed; Floyd is out on this one for now, but for how long?What's next for Floyd Mayweather ...murder? Like OJ Simpson who also was a mental midget it could very well be a result that will finally put him away for good.
Save your money Floyd because you may need it to keep yourself out of jail ... I for one will never watch any fight in which you are engaged; I will not contribute to your rich account.
Floyd, if there is one word that would make a difference in your life in the biggest way possible it is....humility.
That video of you in the studio shows that you act like you are about twelve years old.
If money did that to you, think about giving all your money away to help others and start living a life that makes a difference.
Ego, flash and cash isn't it.
He should have been arrested for what he did to his cars! Customized? More like ghettoized. Trash...he ruined them! This guy has no class.
I love the mug shots in Vegas. If I had to get arrested, it would definitely be here!
I heard Floyd "The Coward" Mayweather, doesn't want to fight Pacquiao, because he doesn't want to get beat up and then have Manny take his phone....haha