Sedriques Dumas calls reporting of domestic violence arrest ‘clout chasing’ (Updated)

The UFC signed Sedriques Dumas after a first-round submission win on the August 30, 2022, version of Dana White’s Contender Sequence. With the win, Dumas moved to 7-0 as knowledgeable fighter with 4 knockouts, two submissions and one choice. The UFC has booked Dumas to make his promotional debut on March 11, 2023, on the Petr Yan vs. Merab Dvalishvili ESPN+ card.

On-line information present that Dumas was arrested on a home violence cost in 2016.

In keeping with the arrest report, on the morning of Christmas Eve 2016, the Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies have been dispatched to a residence in Pensacola, Florida. As soon as there, deputies spoke to a girl referred to within the report as “the mom of Sedriques Dumas baby they usually stay collectively as a household.”

The lady gave a sworn assertion to the deputy, saying that Dumas had borrowed her automobile earlier that night time and that he had not returned residence till roughly 4:15 a.m. When Dumas returned, she requested the place he had been and to see his telephone. In keeping with the report, she requested Dumas a couple of telephone quantity she didn’t acknowledge. At that time, Dumas “obtained mad” and went into the home together with her. As soon as inside the home, Dumas reportedly tried to take the lady’s keys and pushed her. She then stated her glasses poked her within the eye. The deputy famous within the report that her eye was purple and swollen.

The deputy then took a sworn assertion from a witness who acknowledged that he noticed Dumas yelling at Holland and that he additionally noticed him hit her. At that time, the deputy arrested Dumas on a cost of battery home violence.

On January 11, 2017, in response to on-line information, Dumas entered a plea of No Contender/No Contest on the cost. On February 20, 2017, the County Courtroom of Escambia County, Florida, recorded the “Order of Judgment and Sentence” for Dumas. The court docket ordered him to serve 12 months probation and pay the next court docket prices: $273 necessary court docket prices, $201 home violence Belief Fund and $151 Rape Disaster Belief Fund. The court docket additionally required Dumas to finish a home violence intervention program, be topic to drug and alcohol testing and haven’t any contact with the sufferer.

On March 2, 2017, Dumas was arrested for a probation violation below 948.06 of the Florida Statutes which is outlined as, “Violation of probation or group management; revocation; modification; continuance; failure to pay restitution or value of supervision.”

On Could 15, 2017, the court docket recorded that Dumas’ probation was to be reinstated.

Dumas additionally has a 2015 arrest the place the fees have been aggravated assault with a lethal weapon with out intent to kill, trespassing on college property with a weapon or firearm and possession of a weapon or ammo by a Florida delinquent grownup.

In keeping with on-line information, Dumas was acquitted on the primary two fees and the prosecution filed Nolle Prosequi on the third cost.

In January 2016, deputies charged Dumas with resisting arrest with out violence. The recorded judgment on that cost is responsible. The court docket sentenced Dumas to time served and ordered him to pay $323 in court docket prices.

In April 2017, in response to on-line court docket filings, Dumas was discovered responsible of 1 depend of loitering or prowling. He was given credit score for time served in that case and ordered to pay $373 in court docket prices.

Since 2017, Dumas has been charged with a number of vehicular-related crimes. The one case that is still open in opposition to Dumas, in response to on-line court docket information, is a November 2022 arrest for DUI alcohol or medication. The court docket date for that case is ready as March 1, 2023.

Dumas’ signing got here earlier than TMZ launched the video of UFC president Dana White slapping his spouse within the face whereas on a household trip on New Yr’s Eve.

Bloody Elbow reached out to the UFC for touch upon Dumas. Sadly, the promotion didn’t reply earlier than the publication of this story.

UPDATE:

After Bloody Elbow’s story on Dumas’ was launched. Twitter consumer @SoozieCuzie shared paperwork pertaining to his arrest. They famous that the UFC might have obtained this info for $24.

@SoozieCuzie additionally launched an arrest report back to counter a story concerning the arrest shared by a separate Twitter consumer.

This tweet elicited a response from Dumas himself. The brand new UFC fighter accused the twitter of ‘chasing clout’, as in attempting to earn recognition by sharing public details about an undercard fighter on the most recent UFC APEX card.