According to The Washington Post, D.C. police attempted to arrest Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL) last year after a woman accused him of assault.

However, a lieutenant ordered police not to arrest the Florida Republican after the woman “changed her account after appearing to talk to the congressman,” the outlet stated.

Police reportedly tried to obtain an arrest warrant for Mills the next day from then-interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin.

The outlet said the request was denied.

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The body-camera footage and documents show that Richard Mazloom, the police officer who first responded to the accuser’s 911 call, disagreed with his superior’s decision to classify the incident as a “family disturbance” after the woman recanted and said Mills had not assaulted her.

“Unfortunately, I have bosses that are making this into a family disturbance — a domestic disturbance — instead of an actual domestic assault,” Mazloom told the alleged victim, according to the body-camera footage that a judge ordered released to The Post last month.

Before changing her account, the woman had shown Mazloom bruises on her arms and marks on her face, the body-camera footage shows. Tearful, she told the officer that Mills had harmed her during an argument and forcibly removed her from his Southwest Washington penthouse apartment, according to the footage.

“I just wanted to make record of this because I don’t want it to happen to anyone else,” the woman told Mazloom when he interviewed her at a hotel bar near the congressman’s apartment more than six hours after the 4:30 a.m. altercation. Mazloom’s body-camera footage shows her sipping what she later said was an alcoholic beverage.

Soon after, with Mazloom’s body camera still recording, the woman could be heard talking on her phone. She told Mazloom that “he wants me to say” that the marks on her body “were from our vacation and that I bruise easily.” Mazloom later told fellow officers that he understood that the person she had been speaking to on phone was the congressman, according to the footage.

Mills and the woman, whom The Post is not identifying because she had alleged to be the victim of domestic abuse, had just returned from a trip to Dubai where, in separate conversations with police, they both said she had suffered bruises while riding a camel.

The prospect of an arrest seemed imminent enough at one point that the investigators agreed to summon a transport vehicle to take the congressman to a station house to face charges, the body-camera video shows.

“This was from more than a year ago and the case was closed, and I was found to have had no wrongdoing. Even the MPD police supervisor who showed up determined no assault or probable cause had taken place,” Mills told TMZ.

The February 2025 incident is part of a House Ethics Committee investigation into Mills.

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Mills told The Washington Post earlier this month via text that the woman’s initial claim that he assaulted her is “patently false.”

“I’m not commenting on any more of this as there was no crime committed or anything left to say,” Mills wrote, according to The Washington Post.

The report comes amid former Congressman Eric Swalwell facing allegations of sexual assault and harassment from multiple women.

Alleged Victim Of Eric Swalwell Accuses Him Of Drugging, R*ping Her

Meanwhile, Roger Stone said a "bombshell" report on Mills to be released on Monday makes Swalwell "look like Mother Teresa" in comparison.

"Time to flush this little turd, Muslim, arms, dealer, stolen valor, and abuser of women," Stone said.

Newsweek explained further:

Mills is facing renewed scrutiny over sexual misconduct accusations as similar scandals led Swalwell and Representative Tony Gonzales, a Texas Republican, to resign last week. While Mills has described comparisons with the other lawmakers as unfair, some on Capitol Hill are calling for him to resign, which could further erode the GOP's slim majority in the House.

If Mills, who has served Florida's 7th Congressional District since 2023, is removed from Congress or resigns, it may affect the Republican Party ahead of November's midterm elections, in which they hope to protect their narrow majority.

Mills, however, has resisted calls to step down and has argued he's being unfairly grouped with lawmakers accused of sexual relationships with staffers, something he denies.

House Republican leaders have said they are awaiting the outcome of an active Ethics Committee investigation into the congressman before considering disciplinary action.

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