Mayweather’s son says he saw boxer assault his mother

Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s son told police he witnessed the boxer assault his mother last week, according to an arrest report obtained Monday.

Koraun Mayweather, the 10-year-old son of Mayweather Jr. and the boxer's former girlfriend, Josie Harris, told Las Vegas police he saw his dad "on his mother and was hitting and kicking her" Thursday morning during a domestic dispute at home, according to the report.

Mayweather, 33, has three children with Harris. He also owns the house in the 3800 block of Tropical Vine Street, where Harris lives and the incident occurred.

Harris told police their children witnessed the attack, in which she suffered minor injuries to her face and arms, the report said. She said Mayweather told them "he would beat their asses if they left the house or called the police."

Koraun told police he tried to run from the house but was blocked at the door by James McNair, an associate of Mayweather's.

The boy escaped through a back door, where he jumped a security gate and contacted the security officer, the report said.

Koraun said Mayweather took his cell phone, his mother's cell phone and his brother's cell phone before leaving the scene, the report said.

Mayweather turned himself in and was booked Friday on felony grand larceny -- which is defined as theft of personal property with a value of $250 or more -- for taking Harris' iPhone, valued at about $300, according to police. He posted bail later that day.

Richard Wright, Mayweather's lawyer, said the boxer did not commit grand larceny.

"Josie can't find her iPhone," Wright said Friday. "We're attempting to find it or replace it."

According to the report, Mayweather called Georgia Parker using Harris' cell phone at 6:26 a.m., about an hour after the incident. Parker, who was Harris' friend and roommate, was in the waiting room of the hospital as doctors examined Harris, the report said.

Mayweather told Parker to "get out of the house" and that he had Harris' cell phone.

Wright did not respond to calls seeking comment Monday.

In addition to grand larceny, police have requested that Mayweather be charged with domestic battery.

The Clark County district attorney's office is reviewing the case and will decide whether to approve charges against Mayweather, although a timetable has not been set, said District Attorney David Roger.

A third domestic battery charge in seven years is automatically a felony, Roger said, but Mayweather, who pleaded guilty to two counts of domestic battery in 2002, does not qualify.

"If we do approve domestic violence charges, it will be a misdemeanor," he said.

According to the report, Harris returned from bowling about 2:30 a.m. Friday to find Mayweather already inside the house, talking with their children.

Mayweather gave one of his sons an iPhone as a gift and gave Harris $200 to put under his daughter's pillow for the tooth fairy, the report said.

The ex-couple began arguing about the tidiness of the home, and Mayweather confronted her about a man she'd been with that night, the report said.

As the argument escalated, Harris called police about 3 a.m. and asked that Mayweather be removed from the premises. When officers arrived, Mayweather told police he owned the house and wanted her evicted. Officers explained the eviction process to the boxer, and he left the home, the report said.

Mayweather returned to the house several hours later, Harris said.

Harris told police she awoke about 5 a.m. and Mayweather was standing over her, reading text messages from her phone.

Mayweather asked her if she was sleeping with a man named "C.J." Harris replied, "Yes, that is who I'm seeing now," the report said.

Mayweather then grabbed Harris by the hair and pulled her off the couch, striking her in the head, face and arms, she told police.

During the attack, Mayweather yelled, "I'm going to kill you and the man you are messing around with," and "I'm going to have you both disappear," Harris told police.

She was transported to Southern Hills Hospital and Medical Center and released Thursday morning. She filed a temporary protection order against the boxer later that day.

According to the order, Harris said Mayweather also visited the home a week and a half before the incident and threatened her about her new boyfriend. Police were called, but Mayweather left before officers arrived, she wrote.

Harris has accused Mayweather of domestic violence in the past, only to recant or stop cooperating with police.

In December 2003, she told Las Vegas police that he assaulted her outside a nightclub during an argument over another woman. But at the July 2005 trial, Harris testified that she had lied about being beaten. She said Mayweather was a "teddy bear" who had never laid a hand on her. The jury acquitted Mayweather of the felony domestic violence charge.

In 2005, he was convicted in the unprovoked beating of two women in the Ra nightclub at Luxor and received a suspended one-year jail sentence and an order to undergo counseling.

Earlier this year, one of Mayweather's bodyguards was arrested and charged with shooting at another man in a Las Vegas skating rink parking lot in 2009. The shooting happened after Mayweather confronted the victim over a text message from a few months earlier.

Mayweather does not hold a world championship title now but has won nine championships in five weight classes.

He was rated by The Ring Magazine as the No. 1 "pound for pound" fighter from July 18, 2005, to June 2008. The magazine named him Fighter of the Year in 1998 and 2007, and the Boxing Writers Association of America selected him as Fighter of the Year in 2007.

Contact reporter Mike Blasky at mblasky@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0283.