American rapper Rick Ross has been released after posting a $5,000 bond following his arrest in Miami Beach on domestic violence-related battery charges.

The 50-year-old rapper, whose legal name is William Leonard Roberts II, voluntarily surrendered to Miami Beach police early Thursday, October 1, 2026. He was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center at about 6:10 a.m. on one felony charge of battery by strangulation and one misdemeanor battery charge, with both charges listed as involving domestic violence.