{"id":261650,"date":"2026-05-07T06:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261650\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:10:19","slug":"misdemeanor-battery-charges-against-dallas-wings-star-arike-ogunbowale-dropped-in-miami-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261650\/","title":{"rendered":"Misdemeanor battery charges against Dallas Wings star Arike Ogunbowale dropped in Miami, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"

MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Misdemeanor battery charges have been dropped against Dallas Wings<\/a> star Arike Ogunbowale<\/a>, according to an ESPN report.<\/a><\/p>\n

The network reported that the case against Ogunbowale was dropped by the Florida State Attorney\u2019s Office during a hearing Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMs. Ogunbowale is a person of outstanding character, and we are excited that these charges have been dismissed so she can resume her focus on her professional career,\u201d her attorney, Mitch Schuster, told ESPN.<\/p>\n

Ogunbowale, a 29-year-old who’s entering her eighth WNBA season, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery<\/a> after police said she punched a man in the face at a Miami nightclub in the early hours of March 5.<\/p>\n

A four-time WNBA<\/a> All-Star, Ogunbowale was celebrating at the club after winning the Unrivaled championship<\/a> with the Mist that night. According to Miami-Dade County police records, Ogunbowale punched the man in the face, knocking him to the ground, and security cameras captured the act.<\/p>\n

The Wings open the season Saturday at Indiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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AP WNBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/wnba-basketball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Misdemeanor battery charges have been dropped against Dallas Wings star Arike Ogunbowale, according to an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86359,31217,112998,3156,123,125,124,85825,112999],"class_list":["post-261650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-arike-ogunbowale","tag-dallas-wings","tag-florida-state-attorneys-office","tag-indiana","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-misdemeanor-battery","tag-mitch-schuster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}