Boxer Floyd Mayweather SMILES in mugshot photo following domestic violence arrest

Floyd Mayweather Jr. has been freed from a jail in Las Vegas after posting bail on a felony theft charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint by his ex-girlfriend.

The 33-year-old boxer said nothing as he left the Clark County jail on Friday after surrendering for booking on a grand larceny charge. Bail was $3,000.

Mayweather's lawyer, Richard Wright, says the charge stems from an allegation that Mayweather took an iPhone from Josie Harris, his ex-girlfriend and mother of three of his children.

Harris said in court papers, filed to request a protection order, that former Dancing With The Stars contestant Mayweather threatened to kill her in a confrontation about another man that took place in her Las Vegas home at 5 a.m.

The Associated Press cited the nine-page protection order-request, which alleges Mayweather pulled her hair, punched her in the head and twisted her arm while she screamed for her children, ranging in age from 7 to nearly 11, to call the police.

'He yelled and screamed that he was going to kill me and my boyfriend,' Harris wrote. 'Floyd has threatened to have other people do harm to me as well and if (there) is a way I can be protected from that please help me.'

Police told the wire service that Harris was treated for minor injuries. A judge granted a 30-day protective order.

But Mayweather's lawyer, Richard Wright, told the AP that the larceny charge stems from an alleged misunderstand over Harris's lost iPhone and denied he was guilty of the charge.

The website TMZ claims that the Las Vegas police have also recommended that Mayweather should be charged with domestic abuse as well as the larceny charge.

The controversial boxer made headlines earlier this month when a video surfaced of him taunting Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao with ethnic slurs.



Mug shot: Floyd Mayweather smiles for his police mug shot photo following his Las Vegas arrest after a domestic incident with his ex-girlfriend.



Out of jail: Mayweather posted bail for the larceny charge which his lawyer claims is about a misunderstanding over an iPhone.



Protective order: Mayweather's ex-girlfriend claims in a protective order request that the boxer pulled her hair and threatened to kill her.



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