Nearly a month after Rick Ross turned himself in to Miami Beach Police to face domestic violence charges, prosecutors have dropped a felony charge of battery by strangulation and misdemeanor battery. NBC’s South Florida station reports that the rapper, whose real name is William Leonard Roberts II, will now face only one charge of misdemeanor battery/domestic violence. Roberts, who will be arraigned on Friday, has pleaded not guilty to the charge.
Reports from early October pointed to an alleged incident that took place on Aug. 28 at Roberts’ home on Star Island. An anonymous woman, who claimed to be the rapper’s live-in girlfriend, told police that she and Roberts had an argument about whether or not she had lied to him that escalated to the point that he allegedly slapped her, “restricted her breathing by twisting the collar of her hoodie,” and hit her against the wall. Police said the woman “provided photographic evidence of her injuries with time stamps coinciding with the event,” according to NBC.
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