Former IBF junior middleweight champion, Kassim Ouma is in trouble again after a judge in the United States city of Los Angeles issued an arrest warrant to have him behind bars for missing a court session where he had to answer to charges of drugs possession.
Ouma was charged with felony cocaine possession stemming from an incident where he allegedly knocked out a man who made gay advances toward him in April last year.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney filed the charge against Ouma on the 18th after he roughed up the man with whom he had started a conversation en route his home.
According to court documents quoted by the website, TMZ, Ouma was supposed to be in front of the judge on August 5 for a progress report in the case.
When Ouma’s attorney told the court the former IBF junior middleweight champion was in Uganda and not in Los Angeles, the judge issued a bench warrant worth $30,000.
The 36-year-old boxer will now have to meet the warrant before facing the court again to respond to the charges against him. It’s not the first time that the Ugandan prize fighter has landed in trouble outside the ring in 2002 he tested positive for marijiana after claiming the vacant United States Boxing Association light middleweight belt against Darrel Woods, but that was not the end of his troubles as the same year was involved in a drive way shoot out in Florida.
