After pleading guilty to domestic abuse charges, NBA player Jeffery Taylor has officially been put on 18 months of probation. The full police report regarding the incident that took place in September has also been released.
Taylor, a forward for the Charlotte Hornets NBA team, will not spend any time in jail. He was placed on an 18-month probation program that includes a 26-week batterer’s intervention program.
In addition to not drinking any alcohol during the 18 months, Taylor will have to pay $1,800 in court fines for the charges to be expunged from his record.
The police report stated that Taylor and his girlfriend of about 3 years were drinking at HopCat in East Lansing and returned to his room in the East Lansing Marriott at University Place.
At the hotel, Taylor slammed his girlfriend into the wall and struck her right arm, which left a hole in the wall.
An employee of the Marriott hotel witnessed Taylor shoving his girlfriend through a doorway and slamming her head against a wall. The employee separated the parties and Taylor stormed off before police arrived.
While Taylor was being arrested, both he and his girlfriend said they wanted to avoid another ‘Ray Rice incident.’
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