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March 4, 2014
Antonio Tarver made millions in the boxing ring, held numerous championship belts and starred opposite Sylvester Stallone in the sixth installment of the “Rocky” movie franchise.
And late Saturday night, Tarver was reportedly arrested in Florida on a fugitive warrant issued in Nevada.
According to The Tampa Tribune, Tarver was arrested by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper in Pinellas County near Tampa at 11:30 p.m. Saturday and booked into the Pinellas County jail, just outside Tampa. Citing a police report, WFLA-NBC8 reported that Tarver is being held without bond on an insufficient check and theft charges filed by law enforcement officials in Clark County, Nevada.
Las Vegas is in Clark County.
According to WFLA, Clark County records show that charges were first filed against Tarver in June 2013.
TMZ reported that Tarver was initially pulled over in Florida for a possible “routine tag violation,” and that the warrant stems from a failure by Tarver to appear in court. TMZ later reported that Wynn Casino in Las Vegas alleges Tarver owes an unpaid gambling marker, which is the root of the legal issues.
Tarver, 45, has a career record of 29-6. He exploded onto the amateur scene in the mid-1990s, winning gold at the 1995 World Amateur Championships and Pan American Games before taking bronze at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.
More than six years after turning pro, Tarver won his first major professional world championships, defeating Montel Griffin for the WBC & IBF light heavyweight titles. Tarver also faced Roy Jones Jr. three times in one of modern boxing’s most famed trilogies. After losing the first fight on a controversial decision in 2003, Tarver beat Jones in 2004 in one of boxing’s greatest upsets, and then won the rubber match by unanimous decision in 2005.
Tarver’s most notable mainstream fame came not in the squared circle but on the big screen, when he starred as Mason “The Line” Dixon in 2006’s “Rocky Balboa.”
According to the reports, Tarver remains jailed in Florida.
