Huge Tigger denies all costs after his arrest on felony battery and youngster cruelty counts following spouse’s viral publish.
Huge Tigger is talking out after his arrest final weekend, posting an unequivocal denial on Instagram whereas his authorized scenario grows extra severe by the day.
The veteran V-103 morning host and former face of BET’s “Rap Metropolis: Tha Basement” was booked into the Fulton County Jail on June 20 on costs of aggravated battery and third-degree cruelty to kids, posting $10,000 in surety bonds earlier than strolling out the identical day.
His post-arrest Instagram assertion, posted to his bigtiggershow account, reads: “I unequivocally deny each allegation that has been made towards me. As a result of that is an lively authorized matter, I’m restricted in what I can say. What I can say is that I’ve full confidence within the details and within the authorized course of.”
The case traces again to a Could 9 argument on the couple’s Sandy Springs house that his spouse, Alicia Brown, described to investigators.
In line with the arrest warrant obtained by 11Alive, the dispute began over textual content messages between Huge Tigger and a feminine co-worker and escalated bodily when he allegedly pushed Brown into an workplace door, inflicting a deep laceration above her left eye that required quite a few stitches.
The warrant famous that seen disfigurement above the attention remained a month later. A Ring digicam reportedly captured the shove.
The cruelty-to-children cost stems from the couple’s 13-year-old son being inside the house and in a position to hear all the things from his upstairs bed room throughout the confrontation.
What kicked all of this into public view was Brown herself.
On June 6, she posted a video to Instagram displaying her stitched face and a black eye, captioning it “Somebody ask my husband why my face occurred” and tagging Tigger’s co-host Francesca Amiker within the course of.
The publish went viral virtually instantly, and Brown confirmed in feedback that she and Tigger have been divorcing over his relationship with Amiker.
Amiker, a four-time Emmy winner who joined the V-103 morning present simply weeks earlier, denied the affair in a written assertion calling the claims “utterly false.”
Brown later issued her personal follow-up assertion based on TMZ, clarifying that she “by no means known as my husband an abuser” and that “social media has drawn its personal conclusions.”
Huge Tigger broke his silence on June 12, earlier than the arrest, releasing a public assertion that categorically denied all of it.
“I need to say categorically that these allegations and accusations which were circulating are false,” he mentioned. “Moreover, it’s necessary to make clear that Francesca and I’ve by no means been something greater than buddies and revered colleagues.”
When AllHipHop reported on the investigation deepening weeks in the past, no arrest had but been made.
Tigger hasn’t been on air for the reason that arrest, with Frank Ski filling his slot on V-103.
Sandy Springs police arrested him on June 20, two weeks after Brown’s viral publish first put his identify within the streets.
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