Gervonta Davis taken into custody, will do jail time for hit-and-run
Boxing champion Gervonta Davis was taken into custody at Baltimore Central Booking on Thursday, less than a month after he was ordered to serve three months of home detention for a hit-and-run crash.
The 135-pound contender, who had been serving 90 days of home detention for a hit-and-run conviction early this month had an “impromptu hearing” and was ordered to spend the remainder of his sentence behind bars.
“Tank” Davis received a prison sentence of two-plus years on May 5 but the sentence was suspended. The boxing star would not spend time behind bars if he fulfilled other requirements. Why the impromptu hearing was held, and the sentence was changed was not immediately clear. Davis also received 200 hours of community service and three-years probation from Handy in Circuit Court for Baltimore City.
Davis, 28, was sentenced May 5 after pleading guilty last year to being involved in a hit-and-run crash in 2020 that injured four people, including a pregnant woman.
Davis reportedly left a restaurant in downtown Baltimore in a Lamborghini Urus SUV, following a police escort. Reports state that the boxing champ split from the escort, ran a red light on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and struck a Toyota Solara. Four adults were in the Toyota, all of whom were transported to a nearby hospital.
Davis is one of boxing’s biggest stars, with a 29-0 record and 27 knockouts.
