'Dancing with the Stars' star Artem Chigvintsev won't face domestic violence charges, DA says

NAPA COUNTY, Calif. -- A "Dancing with the Stars" pro arrested connected suspicion of felony home unit successful Napa, California past month volition not beryllium facing transgression charges.

Napa County District Attorney Allison Haley announced connected Tuesday her bureau declined to record charges against Artem Chigvintsev, 42, aft a transgression probe and "careful valuation of the grounds presented to the DA's office."

Artem Chigvintsev is seen extracurricular 'Dancing With The Stars' Rehearsal Studio connected October 07, 2021 successful Los Angeles, California.

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"While we instrumentality each apprehension earnestly and basal firmly against home violence, we person an ethical work to lone record charges erstwhile supported by the evidence," DA Allison Haley said successful a property release.

"We are required to beryllium immoderate and each transgression complaint 'beyond a tenable doubt' which is the highest modular successful the American transgression justness system. If the disposable grounds doesn't emergence to this level of proof, past we cannot ethically record charges."

Chigvintsev was arrested for felony home violence, according to Napa County, California, jailhouse records, successful August.

He was booked connected California penal codification 273.5(a), which makes it amerciable to injure a spouse, cohabitant oregon chap genitor successful an enactment of home violence.

The Napa County District Attorney's Office said it whitethorn revisit a home unit lawsuit if it learns of different incidents, oregon different learns of facts oregon grounds not antecedently known.

Chigvintsev was joined to erstwhile WWE wrestler Nikki Garcia.

Garcia filed for divorcement from Chigvintsev earlier this month aft 2 years of matrimony pursuing Chigvintsev's home unit arrest.

The 2 stock a child, 4-year-old Matteo.

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