FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – U.S. Olympic sprinter Fred Kerley walked out of the Broward County Main Jail on Friday night while he had two pending cases in Miami-Dade County court.
Records show Kerley, 29 -- who won silver at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and bronze at the 2024 Games in Paris -- has been arrested three times so far this year.
Police officers arrested him on Jan. 2 in South Beach.
Miami-Dade County court records show prosecutors filed a Miami Beach Police Department case against him on Jan. 3 for battery against a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest.
Court records also show Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested Kerley on Jan. 3 and prosecutors filed a case against him on Jan. 4 for battery domestic violence strangulation and robbery by sudden snatching.
Kerley was out on bond in Miami-Dade County when Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies arrested him on Thursday night at Le Méridien Dania Beach at Fort Lauderdale Airport.
According to the arrest report in the case, U.S. Olympic hudler Alaysha Johnson accused Kerley, her ex-boyfriend, of punching her in the face and causing her nose to bleed at the hotel.
A group of U.S. Olympians was staying at the hotel ahead of the Grand Slam Track Miami events starting on Friday at the Ansin Sports Complex in Miramar.
“These allegations lack merit and the witnesses lack credibility. My client was attacked,” Attorney Richard L. Cooper, who represented Kerley, said in a statement.
Kerley appeared in Broward court on Friday and a judge ordered him to stay away from Johnson and set his bond at $1,000.
In Miami-Dade, Circuit Judge Ellen Sue Venzer is presiding over the January cases and Kerley has a hearing at 9:30 a.m., on May 19.