Former three-division champion Gervonta Davis was arrested in Miami on Wednesday, two weeks after an arrest warrant was issued on charges of battery, false imprisonment and attempted kidnapping, Miami Gardens police announced.
According to police, the department and the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force conducted a three-county surveillance operation to find Davis and arrest him without incident in the Miami Design District.
According to jail records, Davis was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Wednesday at 10 p.m.
An arrest warrant was issued on January 14. Police say that on October 27, Davis went to a strip club and met with his ex-girlfriend. Davis allegedly took a woman who worked at the club as a VIP cocktail waitress into a back room, attacked her and pinned her down.
The police report states that Davis grabbed the woman by the hair and throat and told her, “You think I won’t find you,” and then took her to the club’s parking lot, where he eventually released her.
The woman told police she met Davis in 2022 and in 2025 they dated for five months before the relationship ended and she no longer contacted him.
The woman, Courtney Rossel, filed a report with Miami Gardens police and filed a separate civil complaint against Davis.
“What the police said is exactly consistent with our lawsuit. So regardless of what investigation they did, they felt it was enough for the judge to sign the arrest warrant,” the woman’s attorney, Jeff Chukwuma, told ESPN on Jan. 14. “The state’s attorney had to make a decision earlier on exactly what our civil complaint covered.”
Earlier this month, lawyers handling the woman’s civil case said in court that they had repeatedly tried to serve Davis with the complaint, but to no avail.
Davis trained in October for his fight with Jake Paul at the Kaseya Center in Miami. He was removed from the card after the lawsuit was filed and replaced by Anthony Joshua. His last fight was in March, when he drew with Lamont Roach Jr.
Davis has a history of legal troubles, including allegations of domestic violence. Many of the cases brought against him were dismissed. In 2023, Davis was sentenced to three years probation and 90 days of house arrest in connection with a hit-and-run case in Baltimore.
It was unclear how Davis’ arrest in Florida would affect his probation in Maryland.