Gervonta Davis, one of the best pound for pound boxers in the world, has been cornered and will go to jail

Gervonta Davislightweight champion world boxing associationwas arrested for violating the conditions of the house arrest to which he was sentenced just under a month ago for responsibility in a car accident that took place in November 2020.

Following a Thursday hearing involving the 28-year-old boxer and his attorney, Michael Tomko, Baltimore Circuit Judge Althea M. Handy ordered Davis transferred to the Baltimore Arrest Center, his hometown . serve the remaining time of his 90-day prison sentence which had been applied to him on May 5th.

The former super featherweight and super lightweight world champion was found guilty of cause an accident, in which four people were injured, and leave the scene without providing assistance to the victims. The boxer, who in February had admitted his responsibility for the incident, was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment and 90 days of house arrest with suspended sentence.

At the time, Judge Handy ordered the sentence to be carried out in Baltimore because Davis had to sit on a panel for the organization. Mothers against drunk drivingg (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers), participate in an education program at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, and perform 200 hours of community service in activities other than boxing.

The magistrate identified the home of Calvin Ford, Davis’ childhood coach, as a place to carry out house arrest. However, in recent days it was revealed that the fighter had been staying at the Four Seasons hotel in Parkland (Florida) and in a loft located in a residential complex in Locust Point, South Baltimore (purchased for $3.4 million), for which the benefit was revoked.

“The reason I didn’t want it in Florida was because it wasn’t a vacation. He was serving a sentence. And I was considerate enough to allow him to do so under house arrest,” Judge Handy said during Thursday’s hearing, according to the paper. The Baltimore Banner. And he clarified that he had never received a request to change the place of execution of the sentence.

in the audience, The boxer’s lawyer argued that Calvin Ford’s house was too small to even house the security team that works 24 hours a day with Davis and that for this reason the purchase of the Locust Point loft had been decided. And he tried to take responsibility for not asking for a change of address. “I don’t think Mr. Davis did anything wrong but listen to his counsel,” said Michael Tomko. 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, in a Lamborghini Urus, ran a red light, colliding with a Toyota Solara at the intersection of Martin Luther King avenues Jr. and Washington, in downtown Baltimore, and then crashed into a convenience store fence. Four occupants of the Toyota (including a pregnant woman) were injured, but the boxer didn’t help them, leaving the place immediately.

In February of this year, and after a judge rejected a non-custodial sentence five months earlier, Davis pleaded guilty to four traffic violations leading up to the sentence he received in May and for which he is now being arrested. .