Boxer Taylor to be released to rehabilitation center

A judge on Tuesday ordered boxer Jermain Taylor moved from a private lockdown hospital where he had been held to a rehabilitation center where he will be required to wear an ankle monitor.

Taylor had been at the private hospital to undergo a physical and mental evaluation requested by his attorneys after Taylor's second arrest on a shooting-related charge in less than six months.

A psychiatrist who examined Taylor at the hospital last month recommended he be released on electronic monitoring with drug testing, but Judge Leon Johnson said he wanted to wait until a separate mental evaluation at the Arkansas State Hospital was complete before making a decision.

Court records show Johnson on Tuesday found Taylor fit to proceed to trial after that evaluation and ordered him released to the Recovery Centers of Arkansas with electronic monitoring and behavioral reports.

Full details of the arrangement with the rehabilitation center weren't immediately known. But an official with the organization told Johnson at last month's hearing that the center had space for Taylor at a lockdown center that typically transitions participants into less-restrictive transitional housing after 60 to 120 days.

Taylor was arrested in August in the shooting of his cousin at his home outside Maumelle. He was arrested again in January on accusations he threatened a family and opened fire after a Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Little Rock.

Taylor was briefly released on bail in the January case, but he was rearrested a short time later when his bond in the earlier case was revoked.

READ MORE

Upcoming Events