“Creed III” and “Ant-Man” actor Jonathan Majors was arrested Saturday over what New York Metropolis police say was his position in a home dispute.
The 33-year-old was taken into custody close to an condo within the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan after the NYPD mentioned that the sufferer “knowledgeable police she was assaulted” and had “minor accidents to her head and neck.”
Mr. Majors faces costs of strangulation, assault and harassment. He was launched from police custody Saturday night time.
Priya Chaudhry, an lawyer for Mr. Majors, mentioned in a Sunday assertion obtained by CNN that the actor is “fully harmless and might be the sufferer of an altercation with a girl he is aware of.”
The lawyer mentioned she is shortly gathering proof to current to the district lawyer. Ms. Chaudhry mentioned she expects all costs can be dropped as soon as that course of is completed.
The proof consists of two written statements from the 30-year-old girl recanting the allegations, video footage from a car the place the incident is alleged to have occurred and testimony from the driving force and different witnesses.
“All of the proof proves that Mr. Majors is solely harmless and didn’t assault her by any means,” Ms. Chaudhry mentioned in her assertion. She mentioned the incident took place as a result of the girl was having an emotional disaster that required her to hunt medical therapy.
In response to the arrest, the U.S. Military pulled two adverts that function Mr. Majors.