{"id":416323,"date":"2026-10-02T02:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416323\/"},"modified":"2026-10-02T02:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T02:16:07","slug":"rapper-rick-ross-arrested-in-miami-beach-on-domestic-violence-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416323\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Rick Ross arrested in Miami Beach on domestic violence charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"2L3VD7PEWNBANHX7D5UUMRXOAQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Rapper Rick Ross was arrested Thursday in Miami Beach on domestic violence charges after a woman told police he struck and strangled her in August, according to an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5CSG4DGXWZDE5L4OPG6XTUW4MA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Ross, 50, whose real name is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/07\/28\/rapper-rick-ross-apologizes-for-saying-he-doesnt-hire-female-artists-because-he-would-have-sex-with-them\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2017\/07\/28\/rapper-rick-ross-apologizes-for-saying-he-doesnt-hire-female-artists-because-he-would-have-sex-with-them\/\">William Leonard Roberts II<\/a>, faces charges of felony battery by strangulation and misdemeanor battery. The rap mogul surrendered at a Miami Beach police station Thursday morning on his attorney\u2019s advice, according to the affidavit from Miami Beach Police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Rick Ross was arrested Thursday in Miami Beach on domestic violence charges after a woman told police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-416323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416323","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=416323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}