Bengals cornerback arrested

Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Mackensie Alexander was jailed Wednesday on a charge of misdemeanor battery after deputies say he beat up a man shortly after returning to Florida to help search for his missing father. Alexander, 26, and another man, 28-year-old Evins Clement, were arrested by Collier County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday night, not long after Alexander arrived back in southwest Florida where he grew up and his family still lives in the small farming community of Immokalee. Bail for the men was set at $2,000 each at a Wednesday afternoon court hearing, and they were released later that day. Alexander had left Bengals training camp earlier Tuesday to assist in the search for his 65-year-old father, Jean Alexandre, a Haitian immigrant who uses a French spelling of the family’s surname. Investigators say Mauricet Etienne told them he, Alexandre and others drove about 80 miles to pick palmetto berries in Okeechobee County on Monday. According to Alexander’s arrest report, he and Clement had gone to the home of the man he’s accused of assaulting “to discuss a previous incident.” The report says Alexander tried to convince Etienne to go with them, but he refused, saying he was scared of retaliation. Etienne told deputies that Alexander then threatened to get a gun from his car. When Etienne still refused to go with them, he said Clement grabbed him and Alexander began punching him in the face. Clement and Alexander fled when they heard sirens

approaching but were arrested a short time later.