By Jun Medina Special Correspondent
People's Journal
Las Vegas police said they were seeking boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. for questioning about a domestic battery report lodged on Thursday (Friday in Manila) by his former girlfriend Josie Harris.
Police said they were called to a home at the 3800 block of Tropical Vine Street in southwest Las Vegas to investigate a family disturbance, according to local TV Channel 8.
Las Vegas police spokesman Barbara Morgan said Harris alleged that she was hit by Mayweather during an argument and that they were looking for Mayweather to get his side of the story.
“We’re looking to talk to him as a potential suspect,†Morgan said.
Morgan said, however, that no warrant had been immediately filed and no formal charges have brought on Mayweather, 33, who has faced similar charges before.
It is the latest negative publicity on the unbeaten American boxing superstar, who last week unleashed a racially offensive and expletive-filled Internet attack on Filipino pound-for-pound boxing king Manny Pacquiao. The thrash-talking boxer later apologized after being widely criticized by the media and by boxing fans for his 10-minute video rant.
Pacquiao merely ignored Mayweather’s outburst and suggested that Mayweather is actually helping promote his November 13 fight against Antonio Margarito for the vacant World Boxing Council junior middleweight title a the Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas.
Las Vegas police said Harris, the mother of three of Mayweather’s children, went to Southern Hills Hospital but she was immediately released.
Police Officer Bill Cassell confirmed Harris was taken to hospital for treatment, but her injuries were not described as serious.
Agence France-Presse reported that a lawyer for Mayweather said he had been in touch with police and that the fighter would cooperate with authorities.
Morgan said Mayweather, was not at the Las Vegas house when officers responded to the report of domestic violence shortly after 5 a.m. on Thursday.
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