| Dolphin Player Arrested in Broward County |
| The girlfriend of Dolphins practice squad player Wilfred "Will" Billingsley this morning said she won't press charges after a Broward County judge ordered him held on $4,000 bail for allegedly trying to throw her outside their Wilton Manors home.
"He didn't do anything," Leah Michelle Boyd said as she stuck her head out of the door at Billingsley's townhouse in the 2700 block of Northeast Eighth Avenue. She slammed the door shut.
It will be up to the Broward State Attorney's Office to decide whether it will pursue charges against Billingsley, said Wilton Manors police spokesman Detective David Jones.
Judge John Hurley this morning ordered Billingsley, a cornerback, to avoid any contact with Boyd, his girlfriend of several years.
Billingsley, 25, also was ordered to not return to his home, where police said he and his girlfriend have lived for four months.
Wilton Manors police arrested Billingsley at about 6:40 p.m. Monday on misdemeanor charges of domestic battery and resisting arrest.
"We only heard about it late last night," said Harvey Greene, Dolphins senior vice president for media relations. "We're just now in the process of gathering information and won't have a comment at this time."
Police arrested Boyd, also 25, on a charge of obstruction after police said she interfered with Billingsley's arrest. She was freed from custody at about 2 a.m. today, on the condition she appear before a judge at a later date.
During an argument, Billingsley grew angry when Boyd placed his shoes outside their home, Jones said. He didn't want them outside, police said.
Billingsley then "tried to physically throw her outside the residence through the front door," a police report said.
As Billingsley held her horizontally, Boyd resisted, holding onto the door and door frame, police said.
When police arrived, they found Boyd had scratches on her left upper arm and neck area, police said.
Meanwhile, they found Billingsley sitting outside on the ground in his yard. A police officer handcuffed his left hand, but Billingsley then pulled his right arm away, saying he "couldn't go to jail," police said.
He "pushed and pulled" to prevent being arrested, but police were able to place the other handcuff on his arm and take him into custody.
At some point during police's visit to the home, one of the couple's dogs, possibly a Boxer breed, bit a police officer, seriously injuring his right thumb, Jones said.
The officer, whose name wasn't provided by police, was taken to Holy Cross Hospital, where he was treated and released. The officer's injury will require visits to a hand specialist, Jones said.
Billingsley's agent could not be reached for comment.
Billingsley originally signed with the Dolphins in April 2008 as an undrafted free agent out of North Carolina A&T.
He spent all last season on the team's eight-man practice squad.
He returned there this season after failing to make the active roster out of training camp
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Posted By Brett Schwartz on October 06, 2009 11:23 am | Permalink  |