More trouble for Floyd

Nov. 24, 2010
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POLICE REPORT: Mayweather troubles go on

Shooting victim says boxer tried to force him off road

By FRANCIS MCCABE
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Legal troubles continue to mount for champion boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr.

On Monday, Mayweather was accused of assault with a deadly weapon for trying to force another vehicle off the road, according to a Las Vegas police incident report .











Mayweather was not arrested, according to jail records.

The accuser was 26-year-old Quincey Williams, a former Mayweather acquaintance and employee. Williams also was the victim of an August 2009 shooting at a local roller skating rink that investigators said involved an associate of the boxer. Ocie Harris was indicted on two felonies, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon in connection with the shooting.

According to an incident report filed Monday, Williams said he was driving a red Mazda sedan on Arville Road, near Spring Mountain Road, when Mayweather, in a white Bentley, made a U-turn and "tried to run him off the road."

The report said the Bentley did not strike the Mazda, and no other witnesses were listed.

Mayweather's attorney, Karen Winckler, would not comment.

Williams said Tuesday he has feared for his life since the skating rink shooting. "He (Mayweather) feels like he's entitled to do whatever he wants and get away with it. He wants to walk around and intimidate people like he's some type of thug."

Williams said he was a young boxer when he first met Mayweather after his success in the 1996 Olympics. Williams later worked for Mayweather but said he quit because of low pay.

Williams said their relationship soured after he sent a text message to Mayweather saying he hoped the undefeated boxer would lose.

Months after the text message was sent, on the evening of Aug. 23, 2009, Williams told authorities Mayweather threatened his life at the Crystal Palace Skating Center on Boulder Highway, north of Flamingo Road.

Authorities allege that around 10 p.m. that day, Harris, a Mayweather bodyguard, shot at a BMW containing Williams and another man, Damein Bland, as the vehicle was leaving the skating rink. The car was hit six times.

No one was injured, and Mayweather was not charged.

Williams reiterated Tuesday that he thinks Mayweather told Harris to shoot him. Williams said he did not know Harris, who is from Chicago, before that night.

Monday's incident is expected to be reviewed by detectives. The case then could be forwarded to the Clark County district attorney's office for review.

Police spokesman officer Marcus Martin would not comment on the case because there was an ongoing investigation.

If the accusation has validity, a Las Vegas justice of the peace could revoke Mayweather's bail in his domestic violence case.

Monday's incident is the latest in a series of criminal investigations involving the boxer.

Earlier this month, Mayweather was accused of misdemeanor battery by a security guard at the Southern Highlands development. Mayweather was accused of poking the security guard several times in the face following the Nov. 15 confrontation over a parking citation, authorities said.

Police are investigating that report, and Mayweather has not been charged.

Meanwhile, Mayweather awaits a January preliminary hearing in Las Vegas Justice Court for several felony charges, including felony coercion, grand larceny, and robbery in connection with a Sept. 9 domestic violence incident with his three children and their mother, Josie Harris.

Mayweather is free on $31,000 bail in that case.

Harris has accused Mayweather of domestic violence in the past, only to recant her story or stop cooperating with police.

In December 2003, she told police he assaulted her outside a nightclub during an argument over another woman. But at the July 2005 trial, Harris testified that she had lied about being beaten. She told the jury Mayweather was a "teddy bear" who had never laid a hand on her. The jury acquitted Mayweather of the felony domestic violence charge.

In 2002, Mayweather pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor domestic violence charges.

In 2005, he was convicted in the unprovoked beating of two women in the Ra nightclub at Luxor. He received a suspended one-year jail sentence and an order to undergo counseling.

Mayweather does not hold a world championship boxing title but has won nine championships in five different weight classes.

He was rated by The Ring Magazine as the No. 1 "pound for pound" fighter from July 18, 2005, to June 2008. The magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007, and the Boxing Writers Association of America named him Fighter of the Year in 2007.

Contact reporter Francis McCabe at fmccabe@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-1039.

 

I remember an ex-girlfriend of Floyd, maybe it was his baby mama, said a few years ago that Floyd (or his entourage) tried to run her off the road too.

 

What the fuck is Floyd doing?

 

In all honesty, I think living in Vegas on the nightlife scene has really driven him crazy. Ive seen 100's of people that live the highlife at night come and go. It just ruins your sense of reality if you do it for too long.

 

What a psycho.

 

This just in. Floyd is still a douchebag.

 

Agreed WTF!

 

You're still alive?

 

This could be it. Maybe he cant handle the type of life he's living.

 

Floyd's lost it! What a pity. Just like Lewis-Bowe and the signed Holyfield-Tyson fight of 1991...we're just not destined to see the GREAT matchups in our lifetime.

 

Everytime Floyd misbehaves he makes Slystaff cry.

 

There are tonnes more brothers out there, in the inner city, ghetto slick, ready to kick Manny's ass.

Why don't you stop dreaming of Bristol Palins Sasquatch fanny in your face and go and find one!!!

 

Poor Stafford must buy Kleenex by the case.::

 

He dotes on Floyd. He breaks Sly's heart so.ointlaugh:

 

Yup. Kleenex is in business because of me...during these dark times..

 

Come on.

There's nothing to this. Cars weren't damaged...no witnesses...sounds like heresay. How can this guy prove it was Floyd? Just a complaint. This goes no where.

 

It won't stick.

 

Damn WE all know Mayweather is afraid of Pacquiao...but this is toooo much now!!!! :dunno:

 

Mayweather lost his sense of reality a long time ago.

But unless there's serious evidence(Damaged cars, witnesses, etc.), then its probably just heresay, as Musze pointed out.

But yeah Floyd living the celebrity and Vegas lifestyle has definitely lost his grip a long time ago. And one day he will find himself in something that money won't be able to buy his way out of.

 

Floyd has never shown fear of another fighter at any point in the past..so it's highly unlikely that he's scared of the tiny Filipino.

Floyd, at the time, had more reason to be scared of the larger undefeated Corrales...who was knocking people out left right and centre than he does of the smaller Manny who's been beaten in recent memory by Morales.

THINK, mofo, think!

 

It's not hearsay, but otherwise I agree.

 

:giggle: Mayweather is scared of Pacquiao...not of fighting him but of being KTFO by him. In his mind he is replaying the Marquez fights vs. Pacquiao, I can do the same thing just better, my defense is better, my chin is better,etc..but their is doubt in Mayweather's fragile mind. This fight is Mayweather entire career..if he gets beat by Pacquiao, what he has previously accomplish won't mean much...


and TINY filipino...i see you are easily influence by Mayweather sr. words...lil man...midget..etc..etc...

 

I didn't know that Professor Charles Xavier was among us....

 

:scared2: Yup...but deep down Mayweather knows he can't get up from the canvas 4 times like Marquez did...

 

I don't believe for a second Floyd is afraid of Pacquiao. His ego is too huge. I do believe he wants everything on his terms.

 

Funny thing is, he is. He is scared of a small Filipino man with jeans pulled up really high and a leather belt. That's how Floyd roll, he so gangster.

To put it simply, if he wasn't scared of Pacquiao, he would have agreed to fight him whether he thinks he's on PEDs or not.

 

Yep.

 

A LENGTHY Stint in Jail is the BEST Thing for Floyd Mayweather...It would Suck for BOXING FANS, but for Floyd as a PERSON, the Best Thing for him is Jail Time...Dude is Soooooooooooooo REMOVED from Reality, he's Got Such an EXTREME Sense of ENTITLEMENT that it's Become UNHEALTHY for him...

Time Behind Bars will HUMBLE Floyd...

REED:mj:

 

I agree Musze.

By the way mIKE, how do you know it's NOT heresay? Were you there?

 

this seems really minor and with no way to prove. but given that it's PBF, it's probably true.