Former Knicks star Amar’e Stoudemire was arrested in Miami early Sunday morning on misdemeanor battery charges, with a bond set of $1,500.
According to Miami-Dade County records and an arrest report obtained by the Miami Herald, Stoudemire was taken into custody around 4 a.m., with the report saying one of Stoudemire’s daughters reported to the police that the ex-Knick “punched her in the jaw and slapped her hard enough to draw blood.”
“I observed blood stains on the victim’s sweater and sweatpants,” the arrest report states, per the Herald. “The mother of the victim showed me the photo she received from her daughter, which shows the victim crying and blood running down her face.”
The report also says Alexis Stoudemire, Amar’e’s ex-wife, came to the residence to pick up her children because Amar’e told her the daughter was “being disrespectful,” and the victim claimed her father accused her of “giving attitude” to her grandmother.
Stoudemire then said he called Alexis to pick up the children because the victim “was sad because she received a whooping for being disrespectful and a liar.”
Amar’e, who spent 14 years in the NBA and was a player development assistant with the Nets in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons, had received his MBA from the University of Miami earlier Saturday, according to his Instagram.
He is scheduled for an arraignment hearing on January 17.
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