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He did not comply with house arrest and was transferred to the Baltimore Arrest Center, his hometown, to serve the remaining time of his 90-day prison sentence for a traffic incident.
Gervonta Davis, lightweight champion of the World Boxing Association, was arrested for breaching the conditions of the house arrest to which he had been sentenced a little less than a month ago due to his responsibility in a road incident that occurred in November 2020.
Following a hearing Thursday involving the 28-year-old boxer and his attorney, Michael Tomko, Baltimore Circuit Judge Althea M. Handy ordered Davis transferred to the Baltimore Arrest Central, his hometown. , to serve the remaining time of the sentence of 90 days in prison that had been applied to him on May 5.
The former super featherweight and super lightweight world champion had been found guilty of causing a crash, in which four people had been injured, and leaving the scene without providing assistance to the victims. The boxer, who had admitted his responsibility for the act in February, was sentenced to a suspended sentence of three years in prison and 90 days of house arrest.
In early May, Gervonta Davis was sentenced to a three-year suspended prison sentence and 90 days of house arrest.
At the time, Judge Handy ordered the sentence to be served in Baltimore because Davis was to attend a Mothers Against Drunk Driving panel, participate in an informational program at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center from the University of Maryland and perform 200 hours of non-boxing community service.
The magistrate set the home of Calvin Ford, Davis’s coach since childhood, as the place to carry out the house arrest. However, in recent days it was detected that the boxer had been at the Four Seasons hotel in Parkland (Florida) and in a loft located in a residential complex in Locust Point, in south Baltimore (which he bought for 3.4 million dollars), for which reason the benefit was revoked.
“The reason I didn’t want him in Florida was because it wasn’t a vacation. He was serving a sentence. And I was being considerate enough to let him do it under house arrest,” Judge Handy justified during Thursday’s hearing, according to The Baltimore Banner newspaper. And she made it clear that she had never received a request to change the place of serving the sentence.
In their last fight, Gervonta Davis knocked out Ryan Garcia in Las Vegas. Photo: Al Bello / Getty Images via AFP.
At the hearing, the boxer’s lawyer argued that Calvin Ford’s home was too small to also house the security team that works 24 hours a day with Davis and that is why the purchase of the loft in Locust Point had been decided. And he tried to take responsibility for not having requested the change of address. “I don’t think Mr. Davis did anything wrong except listen to his lawyer,” Michael Tomko said. However, he could not reverse the judge’s decision.
The incident for which the world champion was convicted occurred on November 5, 2020, when Davis, aboard a Lamborghini Urus, ran a red light, collided with a Toyota Solara at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. boulevards. and Washington, in downtown Baltimore, and then crashed into the fence of a convenience store. Four occupants of the Toyota (including a pregnant woman) were injured, but the boxer did not assist them, instead immediately leaving the scene.
In February of this year, and after a judge rejected a non-prison sentence five months earlier, Davis pleaded guilty to four traffic violations that led to the sentence he received in May and for which he now he was arrested.
