Rick Ross wants everyone who wrote about his arrest to share the latest update — prosecutors have dropped the felony charge in his domestic violence case.
The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office filed documents Thursday dismissing a battery by strangulation charge against the rapper because of “insufficient evidence,” according to the Associated Press.
Ross, whose legal name is William Roberts II, still faces a misdemeanor charge of battery domestic violence for allegedly assaulting an ex-girlfriend.
The 50-year-old rapper was arrested on Oct. 1. He pleaded not guilty to all charges and was released later in the day on $5,000 bond.
On Friday, his attorney told the AP Ross will continue defending himself against the allegations.
Meanwhile, the “Hustlin'” rapper addressed the dismissal himself in an Instagram Story, urging anyone who reported on his arrest to update their followers.
“Everyone who shared the beginning, make sure to share the ending,” he captioned a screengrab of an article, adding “heavy marinara.”
The pasta sauce quip was in reference to comments he made when he walked out of jail on Oct. 1.
“I’m totally innocent of these fabricated allegations made against me,” Ross told reporters outside the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
“I’ll be in Dubai tomorrow, Paris Saturday and I plan on having a bowl of rigatoni and heavy marinara Sunday,” he added.
The rapper and entrepreneur surrendered to police two days after his former live-in girlfriend Jazzma Kendrick filed a police report.
The report said Kendrick told detectives she had been living with Ross when he accused her of cheating and allegedly struck her multiple times on Aug. 28.
Kendrick also alleged Ross choked her with her shirt collar and slammed her into a wall. She posted photos of herself with a cut lip in an Instagram Story, according to WorldStarHipHop.
She captioned one photo: “I don’t know a lot of things, but I do know that a man that puts his hands on me, is a man that never loved me and never will.”
The caption over the second picture read: “The day Rick busted my lip and the day I left.”
Kendrick is a model and beauty content creator.
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