Baltimore boxing champion Gervonta “Tank” Davis has been taken into custody on allegations of domestic violence after a two-week search.
The Miami Gardens Police Department and U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force on Wednesday arrested Davis in the Miami Design District on charges including battery, false imprisonment and attempted kidnapping.
Police said they apprehended Davis, 31, “without incident.”
The charges stem from an incident on Oct. 27, 2025, during which Davis is accused of grabbing his ex-girlfriend, Courtney Rossel, by her hair and throat and forcibly escorting her down the stairs toward a parking garage at about 4:15 a.m. at Tootsie’s Cabaret, a popular gentleman’s club in Miami where she had been working as a VIP cocktail waitress.
Rossel went to police two days later and then filed a lawsuit alleging that Davis had assaulted her on at least four separate occasions and twice threatened to kill her. They dated for about five months.
Two months earlier, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office declined to seek formal charges against Davis in a separate case in which another ex-girlfriend accused him of slapping her in the face.
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Rossel’s attorney, Jeff “Caesar” Chukwuma, has stated that his client wants to see accountability.
Law enforcement held a news conference on Jan. 14 and announced they were searching for Davis, who grew up in West Baltimore and now lives in Parkland, Florida.
As a boxer, Davis holds a record of 30-0-1 and had been the World Boxing Association lightweight champion.
He had been scheduled to fight YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul in a bout that Netflix was going to stream. But the event was canceled days after Rossel filed her lawsuit.
Davis remains on probation for a hit-and-run that happened in 2020 in Baltimore.
He’s being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on $16,000 bond, according to jail records. It’s unclear when he’s set to appear in court.



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