{"id":282199,"date":"2026-05-07T02:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:32:07","slug":"dallas-wings-star-arike-ogunbowale-has-miami-nightclub-battery-charges-dropped-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282199\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Wings star Arike Ogunbowale has Miami nightclub battery charges dropped, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Misdemeanor battery charges have been dropped against Dallas Wings star Arike Ogunbowale, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/wnba\/story\/_\/id\/48695702\/battery-charge-wings-star-arike-ogunbowale-dropped\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to an ESPN report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The network reported that the case against Ogunbowale was dropped by the Florida State Attorney&#8217;s Office during a hearing Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ms. 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,&#8221; her attorney, Mitch Schuster, told ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunbowale, a 29-year-old who&#8217;s entering her eighth WNBA season, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-wings-star-arike-ogunbowale-arrested-for-battery-at-miami-nightclub-e11even\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested<\/a> and charged with misdemeanor battery after police said she punched a man in the face at a Miami nightclub in the early hours of March 5.<\/p>\n<p>A four-time WNBA All-Star, Ogunbowale was celebrating at the club after winning the Unrivaled championship with the Mist that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was arrested without incident and was released on bond later that afternoon.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wings open the season Saturday at Indiana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Misdemeanor battery charges have been dropped against Dallas Wings star Arike Ogunbowale, according to an ESPN report. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2458,294,102,104,103,14421,4213,154,14422],"class_list":["post-282199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-assault","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-wings","tag-indictment","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}