On a Thursday afternoon on April 12th, at a UFC 223 media event, “The Notorious” Conor McGregor was arrested for assault and battery. McGregor turned himself into the NYPD after he chased down and attacked a bus carrying multiple other fighters at the event. McGregor injured two people after he threw a hand cart through the bus window.
Earlier that week, one of McGregor’s teammates got into an altercation with another fighter named Khabib Nurmagomedov with a group of about a dozen people. McGregor and his fellow teammates were let into the event without permission and got into the loading bay where the fighters’ bus was. After he had thrown a garbage can at the bus, he then threw a dolly which shattered the window. Glass from the window came flying back, cutting fighters on their face and into their eyes. McGregor was charged with three counts of misdemeanor assault and one count of criminal mischief, announced the next day by the NYPD chief.
McGregor was released from custody two days later on a bail set at $50k, and is scheduled to come back to court on June 14th. “You can imagine he’s going to be sued beyond belief,” said UFC commissioner Dana White. McGregor has been stipped of his lightweight world title and it is now up for grabs. A final court date has been set on June 14th to determine what happens to “The Notorious” Conor McGregor.