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UF football player charged with 2 felonies, suspended

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Justin Watkins, incoming freshman and four-star recruit of the UF football team, was in Alachua County jail Tuesday on four criminal charges.

The 19-year-old is facing two third-degree felony charges u2012 one for the kidnap and false imprisonment of an adult and the other for domestic battery by strangulation u2012 and two first-degree misdemeanor battery charges, according to Alachua County court records.

According to the July 20 arrest report obtained by WCJB Gainesville (TV20), Watkins struck a women with both open and closed fists, pinned her down on a bed and choked her multiple times.