Baltimore judge issues warrant for Gervonta Davis over probation violation

Mathew Schumer, Baltimore Sun on Feb 3, 2026

Published in Boxing

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BALTIMORE — A Baltimore Circuit Court judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for Baltimore native and lightweight champion boxer Gervonta “Tank” Davis, accusing him of violating probation in a 2020 Baltimore hit-and-run case.

Baltimore Circuit Judge Althea M. Handy issued the warrant. Hunter Pruette, Davis’ lawyer in the Baltimore case, confirmed to The Baltimore Sun on Tuesday that he filed a motion to quash the arrest warrant, but declined to offer further comment.

Details of the probation case

The Baltimore charges stem from a crash on Nov. 5, 2020. Court records said Davis left the Medusa Restaurant & Lounge in downtown Baltimore around 2 a.m. and drove a Lamborghini after a member of his entourage arranged a police escort to a hotel. Davis, whose license was suspended, diverted from the escort, turned onto Eutaw Street and later Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Court records said Davis ran a red light where the thoroughfare intersects with Washington Boulevard, striking the passenger’s side of a 2004 Toyota Solara. Davis fled before the four occupants of the Toyota were taken to the hospital for cuts, bruises and sprains.

Davis pleaded guilty in February 2023 to leaving the scene of an accident involving bodily injury, failing to notify the owner of damaged property, driving on a suspended license and running a red light.

He was ordered to serve 90 days in home confinement at his trainer’s apartment in Baltimore.

But in June 2023, Baltimore Sheriff’s deputies arrested Davis after he moved twice without the judge’s approval during his 90 days of home detention, first to the Four Seasons Hotel in Harbor East and then to a luxury condominium in Locust Point.

Additional legal troubles

The Baltimore warrant was issued a week after Miami Gardens Police arrested Davis following a two-week manhunt tied to unrelated battery and attempted kidnapping charges.

According to law enforcement, Davis attacked a woman he had previously dated in October 2025 before attempting to force her into his vehicle. Unable to find the boxer, Miami Gardens officials declared him a fugitive, bringing in the U.S. Marshals Service to help locate him. He was eventually arrested while leaving a retail store in Miami.

In the wake of the legal situation in Florida, the World Boxing Association designated Davis a “champion in recess,” which refers to boxers who cannot defend their titles due to injury or inactivity.