Boxing champ Taylor pleads not guilty to Arkansas assault charges


  • Boxing
  • Wednesday, 21 Jan 2015

Jermain Taylor, of Arkansas, speaks during a news conference at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada February 13, 2008. REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) - Boxing champion Jermain Taylor pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to multiple criminal charges related to allegations of threatening a family at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Little Rock, and was ordered held pending $50,000 bond.

Taylor, who appeared before Little Rock District Judge Alice Lightle in a video link from the Pulaski County jail, was taken into police custody on Monday.

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