FORMER WRESTLER INDICTED ON FALSE IMPRISONMENT CHARGES
  • 10/18/2005 (9:41:52 pm)
  • Georgiann Makropoulos

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Former wrestler indicted on imprisonment charges

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 10/18/05

Former pro wrestler Harrison Norris Jr., 39, of Cartersville, has been indicted and arrested on charges of false imprisonment, the FBI announced today in a press release.

Norris, who wrestled under the name Hardbody Harrison in the now-defunct World Championship Wrestling organization from 1994 to 1999, faces a nine-count federal indictment that includes trafficking women for commercial sex acts.

Harrison had been released on bond after his August 2004 arrest in Smyrna on three charges of false imprisonment.

Smyrna police spokesman Clark Pino, in an interview last year, said that Harrison befriended women by bailing them out of jail and giving them a place to stay, then forced them into prostitution to repay the debt.

Pino said Harrison was arrested after Smyrna officers, who had been called to a business dispute at Citi Trends Fashions in the Belmont Hills Shopping Center, were asked for help by three women who said Harrison was holding them against their will.

"A total of seven females were with Harrison, of which three stated they were being held against their will and forced into prostitution for him," Pino said last year.

The three women said they had been forced to live at Harrison's home in Cartersville for 11 days to three months, Pino said.

In 2000, Harrison sued Atlanta-based World Championship Wrestling, alleging racial discrimination by the organization. In court papers for the lawsuit, he said he was supporting himself by competing in no-holds-barred Toughman competitions. The suit was dismissed in 2003.

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