Adult star Drake Von strangled his girlfriend until she 'blacked out,' police allege

This story originally appeared on Out.

Adult film star Drake Von has claimed that his arrest on domestic battery charges was a “publicity stunt,” but the police report detailing the incident paints a different picture.

Von’s arrest stemmed from an argument with his girlfriend that escalated into a physical altercation where he allegedly grabbed her by the throat and “slammed her on the ground” and strangled her “by applying pressure to her throat restricting her breathing” until she “could not breathe and she felt like she passed out,” according to a police report obtained by Out.

The 23-year-old GayVN Award winner, whose legal name is Dawson Bacon, was arrested in connection with this incident in Las Vegas on June 2 and now faces charges of first-degree domestic battery, domestic battery by strangulation, and felony coercion constituting domestic violence with threat or use of physical force.

On June 4, in an exclusive statement sent to Out just two days after his arrest, Von claimed that the incident “was all a publicity stunt” and that all charges against him "will be dropped and [the] case dismissed.”

In a taped interview with Detective D. Groberski, the unnamed victim told police that a verbal argument allegedly turned violent after she threw her Louis Vuitton “promise ring” out of the window of the car. She claims the disagreement continued after they returned home and when she called a friend to pick her up, Von took her cell phone and refused to return it before ordering her to “get onto her knees and apologize to him.”

The victim alleges that Von kicked her with his feet and then “forced her to the ground” and strangled her “with such force that she had difficulty breathing,” causing her to temporarily black out. When she came to, she “got to her feet and ran out of the residence,” where she waited for a friend to pick her up before calling the police, the report reads.

According to police, the victim had a bruise above her right eyebrow, a scratch on her hand, and redness on her neck that was “consistent with her allegations of being strangled.”

The SWAT team had to be called to Von’s apartment because an empty magazine from a fireman was seen on his coffee table when police entered his residence to arrest him. Von, who has a previous arrest for domestic battery, refused to speak to police and requested his attorney.