Olympian bonds out after police

His estranged wife appeared in bond court Saturday to speak with Cuervo.“I was literally recoding because he’s an athlete, and I didn’t want anything to happen to him, and if something did happen to him, I wanted to make sure that I had the footage,” she said.Kerley, a former 100-meter world champion who won silver and bronze medals in the last two Summer Olympics, had been on the run from the law. “I want to proceed with pressing charges on him,” she told the judge.“This is a domestic violence situation, strong-arm ronnery,” said a prosecutor during Saturday’s bond hearing.Cellphone, surveillance and body-worn camera video captured the moment officers deployed a Taser and took Kerley into custody. While the suspect is being held down and handcuffed by officers on the pavement, one officer is seen punching him multiple times.Kerley was held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center before he posted bond on Saturday.Hours later, 7News cameras captured the 29-year-old after he bonded out of jail in West Miami-Dade.Police said he refused to get back or get away.Kerley’s girlfriend, reality TV star Cleo Rahman, provided 7News with cellphone video of the scuffle between officers and her boyfriend. She was also arrested for allegedly resisting arrest.Copyright 2024 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.According to Miami-Dade Police, detectives had been looking for the Team USA sprinter since May 2024, when he was accused of strangling his wife twice.WEST MIAMI-DADE, FLA. (WSVN) – An Olympic athlete faced a judge for a second time after a confrontation with police officers in South Beach’s entertainment district led to his arrest.Rahman, who starred in the reality series “Bad Girls Club,” spoke with 7News after she bonded out of jail Friday.Frederick Kerley stood before Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Ritamaria Cuervo, late Saturday morning.Detectives said Kerley walked into an unrelated traffic stop as he was walking toward his car.After Kerley was apprehended for this incident, he was charged in the domestic violence case.
Miami Beach Police officers caught up to Kerley late Thursday night when, they said, he interfered with a crime scene on the 100 block of Ninth Street, between Collins Avenue and Ocean Drive.