Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta star Tommie Lee was charged with battery on Monday, June 10, in Miami, Florida outside the popular Club LIV, NBC 6, Local 10 and 7 News Miami reported.
Lee (nee Atasha Jefferson) was arrested at the scene at 4441 Collins Ave.LIV after 2 a.m., according to arrest records, according to Local 10.
Former Love and Hip Hop: Atlanta The cast member (39) allegedly approached the man, whom she says she has never met, and tried to hand him something. But after he declined the offer, Jefferson allegedly became aggressive, shoving him in the face, swearing at him and threatening to have him killed, according to Local 10.
After the argument, the victim held her until the police arrived at the scene. The police then reviewed the footage of the incident from the surveillance cameras, which confirmed the victim’s statement.
Jefferson was then arrested on the battery charge and taken to Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without incident.
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Tommie Lee on June 25, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.
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Prior to Monday’s arrest, Jefferson was recently indicted in January 2019 on multiple charges, including aggravated assault, cruelty to a child, battery, aggravated stalking and disrupting a public school, according to AJC.com, for allegedly pushing his child’s head into a metal locker and dragging is for hair.
In October 2018, she was first arrested and charged with felony aggravated assault, battery and cruelty to a child after an incident at her child’s high school, according to TMZ. Hours after that arrest, she was arrested a second time after allegedly making contact with her daughter; was arrested at her home and charged with aggravated stalking and obstructing an officer, WSB-TV Atlanta reported.
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Tommie Lee on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.
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Representatives for the Miami Police Department and the Miami-Dade County Jail did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for more information on Monday.
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