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BJ Penn clearly drunk as he’s arrested. I
hope he receives the assistance he needs… pic.twitter.com/5Idv7tXSl7— Michael Morgan (@mikewhoatv)
January 25, 2021
B.J. Penn
had another run-in with the law this past weekend.
According to a report from
MMAFighting.com, the UFC Hall of Famer was arrested on
suspicion of DUI in Honokaa, Hawaii, after police received a
reckless driving complaint. Penn was eventually released after an
investigation, but his blood-alcohol level was not provided.
Additionally, video of what appears to be a belligerent Penn being
guided into a police car surfaced on Monday. Further details
regarding Penn’s latest arrest were not provided by
authorities.
Penn was also
investigated for a possible DUI in Hilo, Hawaii, after flipping
his truck in February 2020. The results of Penn’s blood-alcohol
test prompted the investigation, and the ex-fighter was allegedly
at a bar called the Lava Shack prior to the accident.
In December, a
paternity suit was filed against Penn by a woman with whom he
fathered a child in June 2019.
The former UFC champion has been involved in a string of troubling
events in recent months. In August 2019, videos captured Penn in
what appeared to be a bar fight outside Lava Shack. Two months
earlier, Penn was involved in a
fight with a bouncer outside a Hawaii strip club. No arrests
were made in either incident.
Earlier in 2019, Shealen Uaiwa, the mother of Penn’s children,
filed a restraining order against the former champion in which
she accused the ex-champion of verbal, physical and sexual abuse as
well as drug addiction.
Penn last competed at UFC 237, where he dropped a unanimous
decision to Clay Guida for
his seventh consecutive defeat. The 42-year-old Hawaii native was
still supposed to receive one final Octagon bout against Nik Lentz, but
UFC president Dana White decided that Penn was
done competing in the promotion upon seeing the street fight
videos.
This article first appeared at Recent News on Sherdog.com
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