HE SUBMITTED
McGregor turns himself in, charged after rampage
UFC star Conor McGregor was arrested late Thursday night, following a ruckus earlier in the day at Barclays Center, officials said.
McGregor, accompanied by his lawyer, turned himself in at the 78th Precinct station house in Brooklyn and is expected to be charged with criminal mischief and reckless endangerment, law enforcement sources said.
The 29-year-old Irish brawler hurled a hand truck at a bus in which a fellow fighter wound up injured following a press conference at Barclays for Saturday’s UFC 223, which includes a fight between lightweights Khabib Nurmagomedov and Max Holloway.
McGregor was upset because UFC officials have decided to strip him of his lightweight title, officially after the fight between the contenders.
McGregor hasn’t fought for UFC since November 2016. McGregor’s last action was a boxing match which he lost to Floyd Mayweather Jr. on Aug. 26, 2017.
Cian Cowley, 23, was part of McGregor’s entourage and added to the mayhem on Thursday, a law enforcement source said. He also turned himself in at the 78th Pct. station house and was arrested for assault, officials said.
McGregor and his team showed up at Barclays at the end of a press conference looking for a fight with Nurmagomedov — but fellow fighter Michael Chiesa is the one who ended up hurt. McGregor allegedly hurled a hand truck through the window of a bus carrying fighters scheduled to brawl on Saturday’s card, sources said.
“Conor went bananas and put a beating on the van that we were in looking for Khabib,” Chiesa’s coach Rick Little told MMAJunkie.
“Everything happened so fast, it was just like we got jumped.”
Chiesa later announced on Twitter his bout against Anthony Pettis on Saturday had been cancelled.
Video posted by TMZ appears to show McGregor in the arena’s parking garage, hurling the dolly at the bus and smashing its front window.
In another video posted by UFC fighter Felice Herrig, McGregor can also be seen throwing a metal barrier and metal garbage can around the lot.
Afterwards, McGregor and his entourage left Barclays and jumped into a waiting SUV, footage posted on Instagram by a Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter shows.
The FDNY confirmed one victim was transported from the scene to Methodist Hospital at 1:39 p.m. with a possible head wound.
“After this disgusting, despicable move, I think everybody’s relationship with Conor’s gonna be not so great,” UFC President Dana White said. “Not a great career move.”