Florida prosecutors dropped the most serious of...

Florida prosecutors dropped the most serious of the charges facing Aaron Pryor after the professional boxer’s alleged victim in a reported assault could not be found to testify.

Pryor pleaded no contest to two related lesser charges in a Miami courtroom and was fined $5,000. Had he been convicted of all charges, Pryor could have been sentenced to as much as two life terms in prison.

Investigators alleged that Pryor, intoxicated on crack cocaine, had attacked the 26-year-old female victim with a pistol and a stick at his home last February. Police said the woman was found naked and bound on Pryor’s bedroom floor.

Pryor had pleaded not guilty to a sexual assault charge, which was dropped. Pryor’s attorneys accused the woman of being a prostitute.