Rapper Rick Ross arrested in Miami Beach on domestic violence charges

Rapper Rick Ross was arrested by Miami Beach police early Thursday on domestic violence charges, including felony battery by strangulation, according to Miami-Dade jail and court records.

Ross, whose legal name is William Leonard Roberts, was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at 6:10 a.m. this Thursday.


The 50-year-old rapper faces one felony count of battery by strangulation and one misdemeanor count of battery stemming from a late-August altercation at his residence in the Star Island community of Miami. Both charges are listed as involving domestic violence.

The arrest affidavit says Ross and the alleged victim had been in a relationship for about a year and were living together at the time of the alleged incident.

The woman told investigators that on Aug. 28 she was awakened around 7:44 a.m. by Ross, who she said was angry because she had been tagged in a photo on Instagram. Police said Ross questioned her about whether she was lying to him and allegedly slapped her in the face.

Later that morning, according to the affidavit, Ross accused the woman of being involved with another person and continued questioning her while she was in a bathroom. The woman told police Ross struck her in the chest several times and restricted her breathing by grabbing and twisting the collar of the hoodie she was wearing.

The affidavit alleges Ross then grabbed the woman by her ponytail and slammed her against a wall before striking her in the face, causing a busted lip. The report states he then pushed her to the floor, turned on the shower and attempted to spray her with the shower head. The woman was eventually able to leave the bathroom and later gathered her belongings and left the residence after Ross left, according to the affidavit.

Police said the woman later provided detectives with a sworn statement and timestamped photographs of her injuries. Investigators also reviewed surveillance video from the residence that they said showed a friend arriving to pick her up and being turned

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