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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley walked retired of the Broward County Main Jail connected Friday nighttime facing accusations of punching his ex-girlfriend astatine a hotel.
Kerley, 29, appeared successful enslaved tribunal connected Friday aft Olympic hurdler Alaysha Johnson told deputies that helium had deed her successful the look and she was bleeding.
“These allegations deficiency merit and the witnesses deficiency credibility. My lawsuit was attacked,” Attorney Richard L. Cooper, who represented Kerley, said successful a statement.
According to a Broward County Sheriff’s Office apprehension report, deputies arrested Kerley connected Thursday nighttime at Le Méridien Dania Beach astatine Fort Lauderdale Airport.
The athletes were staying astatine the edifice on Thursday night up of the Grand Slam Track Miami events starting connected Friday astatine the Ansin Sports Complex successful Miramar.
A Broward County Circuit justice ordered Kerley, a sprinter who won metallic astatine the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and bronze astatine the 2024 Games successful Paris, to enactment distant from Johnson and acceptable his enslaved astatine $1,000.
Kerley was arrested earlier this twelvemonth successful Miami Beach for allegedly attacking a constabulary officer.
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