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Taiwanese women exploited by American MMA fighter's porn videos
Taiwanese among 36 Asian women secretly filmed in American MMA fighter's porn videos
By Keoni Everington,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
2018/03/15 19:07


Schulte (center). (Instagram image)

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) -- Taiwanese women are among the 36 Asian women an American mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter and self-proclaimed "pick-up artist" who have unwittingly appeared in his pornographic videos online.

A Taiwanese woman yesterday on the Facebook group Breaking News Commune (爆料公社) posted a warning that a 32-year-old American MMA fighter named Jaymes Schulte has been secretly filming one-night-stands with Taiwanese women and posting them on a porn website for profit. It is not clear whether she was also a victim of these alleged unauthorized videos.

She also said that the names and descriptions of the videos contain obscene and degrading language and she fears many Taiwanese women have been victimized. She reminded any women that come in contact with him to be extremely cautious and if they discover they have been included in any of his videos online, they should contact the authorities immediately.

According his numerous social media accounts, Schulte is a an American professional MMA fighter and he claims to be a "Pick Up Artists" who enjoys shooting "travel porn videos." On the adult video website PornHub, Schulte has an account titled TravelPorn with over 3,000 subscribers and 800,000 views, which contains videos of at least 36 Asian women performing sexual acts with him.

In one Instagram post, Schulte says that he was accused of rape by a Japanese tourist in Hawaii, and was held for a day in jail. However, he claims that after police saw the sex video he shot of the him having consensual sex with the woman, the charges were dropped.


Screenshot of Schulte Intagram post. (Image from 爆料公社)

On his PornHub page, he charges US$10 for individual sex videos and US$250 for lifetime membership and lists PayPal and bitcoin as methods of payment.

Also on the page, Schulte says that he has sex with over 100 women a year, who he claims he has met through his pick up artist tactics, for which he offers viewers a US$250 fee to teach them.


Screenshot of Schulte's YouPorn page. (Image from 爆料公社)

From his Instagram, it is evident that in addition to Taiwan, he has also recently traveled to Mexico, Indonesia, Hawaii, Guam, Thailand, Japan, Shanghai, Beijing. In each location he can be seen posing with young Asian women he has apparently met in those locales.

On Tuesday (March 13), announced on Facebook that he has encountered financial difficulties and so he has decided to sell his sex tapes so that he can save about US$5,000 and quickly return to Asia.

Schulte, who goes by the MMA fighting nickname the "Underdog," has a less than impressive professional fight record of 2 wins and 4 losses, with both wins coming from fighters with losing records.


Screenshot of Schulte Intagram post.


Schulte Instagram post in Beijing. (Image from 爆料公社)


Screenshot of Schulte's YouPorn page. (Image from 爆料公社)

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Conor McGregor arrested after rampage at UFC event
By Matt Bonesteel and Des Bieler April 6 at 10:33 AM
UFC fighter Conor McGregor allegedly attacked a bus carrying fighters and staffers at a UFC event on April 5. It's not his first time causing controversy. (Allie Caren/The Washington Post)

Mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor turned himself in to police Thursday and was arrested and charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief after his role in a fracas that left UFC fighter Michael Chiesa in the hospital with a facial laceration. The incident took place after a media event ahead of Saturday’s UFC 223 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

According to the Independent, McGregor was held overnight and remained in police custody early Friday morning as he awaited a court appearance in Brooklyn. MMA Fighting reported that Cian Cowley, McGregor’s SBG teammate, also was charged with one count of assault and one count of criminal mischief over the incident.

McGregor was led out of the 78th Precinct in Brooklyn for a court appearance Friday morning, according to video posted by New York’s WNBC.

Three matches scheduled for Saturday’s UFC 223 card were scrapped because of the incident, cutting the card to 10 bouts. Chiesa, who was to fight Anthony Pettis, was cut in the face and was in the hospital; he has been deemed unfit to fight by the New York State Athletic Commission and the UFC medical team. Ray Borg, a flyweight who was scheduled to battle Brandon Moreno, also was deemed unfit to fight after suffering corneal abrasions. Artem Lobov, a McGregor friend and ally who was part of the incident, also was pulled from the card.

Separately, Max Holloway, who was scheduled to fight Khabib Nurmagomedov for the UFC lightweight belt in the headline bout, was declared medically unfit to fight by the athletic commission before Friday’s weigh-in.The status of the title bout remains unclear. According to MMA Junkie, Anthony Pettis — who had been scheduled to fight Chiesa — has been called upon to fight Nurmagomedov, although reports indicated other fighters might still be chosen.

UFC President Dana White said Friday morning that he had been in contact with McGregor, and that the fighter had attempted to justify his actions. White said the fracas was not prompted by McGregor getting stripped of his lightweight belt earlier this week, but rather by previous bad feelings between McGregor’s camp and Nurmagomedov, the Russian fighter scheduled to face Holloway for McGregor’s vacated belt in Saturday’s main event. Nurmagomedov was filmed in a confrontation at a hotel with Lobov, the McGregor friend, earlier this week.

“Conor and I talked through text yesterday, obviously the worst conversation we have ever had, ” White said during a Friday morning appearance on Fox Sports 1’s “First Things First,” adding that the conversation took place before McGregor turned himself in. “It’s not that I don’t think he understood what happened, it’s just … he justified it, it was justified to him. … [He thought] it had to be done.”

White said McGregor and his crew — “20 hoodlums they flew in from Ireland” — gained access to the arena thanks to “people on the inside” who were covering the event for McGregor’s company. The confrontation came when the McGregor entourage attacked a bus filled with fighters and staffers, including Nurmagomedov, as the bus began to leave Barclays Center following Thursday’s media event.

“These buses are full of a ton of fighters and their cornermen,” White said. “And they’re just throwing things into the windows not caring who they hit. … They hit Mike Chiesa. Mike Chiesa has nothing to do with this. … Many of the fighters and cornermen have nothing to do with this situation.”

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In an appearance later Friday on ESPN’s “Get Up!” White said the incident was not a stunt meant to generate publicity for UFC, which has lost a number of star fighters in recent months to boxing (McGregor fought Floyd Mayweather in a lucrative bout last year), pro wrestling (Ronda Rousey) and a combination of wrestling and failed doping tests (Brock Lesnar).

“This is the last stunt on Earth we would ever pull. I mean, this is embarrassing for the sport and obviously for the UFC,” White said. “This is the furthest thing from a stunt.”

White added that McGregor won’t be getting any sort of bailout from UFC.

“Normally, yes — I would dive right in and do everything in my power to help one of my guys,” White said on the ESPN show. “But not in this situation. He came into the Barclays Center, attacked our fighters, and attacked my staff with a bunch of guys — no. You don’t get my help on this one.”

Videos posted to social media showed a chaotic scene Thursday, with at least one guardrail being flung and general disorder. (A fuller video of the bus incident is here; it contains explicit language.)

“Conor went bananas and put a beating on the van that we were in,” Chiesa’s coach Rick Little told MMA Junkie. “A million security guards had to restrain him. Mike’s cut up now. He’s got marks on him, for sure. I don’t think too serious. Everything happened so fast, it was just like we got jumped.”

Little told the site that his fighter had been cut by shattered glass. And some media members at the arena reported that the target of McGrergor’s ire was apparently Nurmagomedov, who seemed to believe that was the case.

“I am laughing inside,” the Russian told MMAFighting’s Ariel Helwani. “You broke window? Why? Come inside. If you real gangster why don’t you come inside? This is big history gangster place. Brooklyn. You want to talk to me? Send me location. I am going to come. No problem.”

White on Thursday called the incident the most despicable thing in UFC history, according to ESPN’s Brett Okamoto.

“You want to grab 30 [expletive] friends and come down here and do what you did today?” White said in a video posted by Okamoto. “It’s disgusting. And I don’t think anybody is going to be huge Conor McGregor fans after this. I don’t know if he’s on drugs or what his deal is, but to come and do this and act like this?”

White had announced earlier this week there would be “no interim champ” following Saturday’s scheduled lightweight main event between Max Holloway and Nurmagomedov.

“When this fight is over, champion,” White said at a news conference, gesturing to Nurmagomedov and Holloway. “One of these guys will be the champion.”

This news was not taken well by McGregor, the previous permanent holder of that title.

“You’s’ll strip me of nothing,” he tweeted very early Thursday morning, before calling UFC officials an unprintable word.

McGregor won the lightweight title by defeating Eddie Alvarez at UFC 205 in a November 2016 bout but stepped away from the octagon to train for last year’s lucrative boxing match against Floyd Mayweather. Tony Ferguson stepped in to win an interim lightweight belt in McGregor’s absence, but White said Saturday’s bout between Nurmagomedov and Holloway will decide a new official champion.

“Tony Ferguson isn’t being stripped. The only person here who is losing a belt is Conor. Conor’s losing the belt, these two are fighting for the belt,” White said at the news conference.

Before Thursday’s fracas, White insisted that McGregor “is coming back this year, 100 percent,” adding, “We’ll see how this thing plays out [with the lightweight title], and we’ll go from there.”

He later reiterated that stance on Fox Sports’ “UFC Tonight,” saying: “Conor does want to fight. Conor and I have been talking a lot. Conor does want to come back, he does want to fight, so he will fight this year.”

That was before Thursday’s events, which figure to forever change McGregor’s relationship with UFC.

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Putin’s Top MMA Fighter: Backed by Trump, Busted by the FBI
When Donald Trump and his personal lawyer decided to go in on a new MMA league, Russian fighter Fedor Emelianenko was their main man. Now he’s being questioned by the FBI.
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05.06.18 9:06 PM ET

The Russian fighter was in Chicago, killing time with his entourage in the days before a mixed martial arts bout, when the call came.

FBI agents were looking for him. A fearsome heavyweight known as “The Last Emperor”—and who’s beloved by Russian President Vladimir Putin—Fedor Emelianenko had been in America for only five days before the feds appeared at his hotel near O’Hare Airport on Tuesday, April 24.

A decade before, Emelianenko had headlined an MMA league championed by Donald Trump and his personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. The outfit went bust after only two fights.

Now, Cohen is the subject of a major federal investigation. Two weeks prior to the rendezvous with Emelianenko, the FBI raided Cohen’s New York home, office, and hotel room in search of records related to his payout to porn star Stormy Daniels in the run-up to Election Day. (Cohen is also reportedly being eyed by special counsel Robert Mueller in his probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election.)

Jerry Millen, Emelianenko’s manager, declined to discuss what the G-men asked the 41-year-old warrior, who won his Bellator slugfest in 48 seconds four days later. The FBI interview was first reported by The Telegraph of London, then the Associated Press.

“His thing is inflicting death on people. He’s abnormally strong.”
— Donald Trump, on Fedor Emelianenko

“They told us they’d be at the fight on Saturday,” Millen said of the federal agent and a translator, who came from the FBI’s Chicago bureau and chatted up Emelianenko for 20 minutes before handing him their business cards. “They said they’d be in plainclothes and we won’t know they’re there.”

When asked if Emelianenko has a relationship with Cohen, Millen replied, “Not that I know of.”

It’s unclear whether the FBI interest in Emelianenko, a slightly pudgy bruiser with a shaved head and stony gaze, is connected to either inquiry. But Millen, who partnered with Trump on a failed reality TV show featuring Emelianenko, said everything the MMA legend does is above board.

“Fedor is one of the best people I know,” Millen added. “He’s not involved in any goofy **** at all.”

Millen wants President Trump to attend Emelianenko’s next fight in the fall. And he hopes the Russian president will make it, too. “It would cause havoc, but if Trump and Putin want to meet, why not meet at Fedor’s fight?” Millen told The Daily Beast.

“Fedor works for Putin,” Millen said. “He’s very close to Mr. Putin and a big supporter of Mr. Putin and he’ll probably go back to work, after this is all over, for the government of Russia as sports ambassador.” Indeed, Emelianenko was a member of Putin’s United Russia Party and in 2012 was placed on the Russian president’s sports advisory council.


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Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi (R) shakes hands with world champion Fedor Emelianenko as President Vladimir Putin (L) sits next to them during a reception in Konstantinovsky Palace after a mixed fight event in St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Donald Trump loves Fedor,” the manager added. “So what better place to meet [than] at the next Bellator event?”

When asked if his dreams of a Putin-Trump showdown was all talk, Millen answered, “If I can make it happen, I will. I think it’d be awesome if Trump and Putin were in the ring together for a Fedor fight.”

Emelianenko was linked to the future American president as early as 2008, when the Affliction apparel company launched an MMA league in answer to the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

Before Affliction’s MMA venture, the UFC had prohibited its fighters from wearing Affliction duds during events. “I don’t like the way they do business,” UFC President Dana White told Bleacher Report of the clothing line, which had been sponsoring the sport’s fighters. In response, Affliction launched a league of its own.

“I think it’d be awesome if Trump and Putin were in the ring together for a Fedor fight.”
— Jerry Millen, Fedor Emelianenko’s manager

Enter Donald Trump.

In May of that year, at a press conference at Trump Tower, the real estate mogul declared his partnership with Affliction and announced its first pay-per-view fight. Emelianenko would be the star of the July 2008 bout—titled “Affliction: Banned,” in a nod to the turf war with the UFC.

Trump held another presser one month later to announce the signing of Belarusian fighter Andrei Arlovski. “I’ve got a lot of money. That helps, right? But also and perhaps more importantly, I seem to get a lot of attention,” Trump told reporters.

“If we make money, that’s great,” Trump added, “I think we will. I think it will be successful. What I do is usually successful.”

Cohen was named Affliction Entertainment’s chief operating officer in a press release touting “Banned,” which drew thousands of fans to the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, and starred a Megadeth performance. Cohen said he was “nearly speechless” that Trump and Affliction trusted him to make MMA magic happen.


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Fedor Emelianenko and his team with Oscar De la Hoya, Tom Atencio, and Donald Trump during the MMA WAMMA Heavyweight Championship bout at AFFLICTION Day of Reckoning, Jan. 24, 2009, in Anaheim, California.

“This is like having Ali, Frazier, Tyson, Holyfield and other top heavyweights all on the same boxing card,” Cohen said at the time. “It’s unprecedented and will revolutionize the way MMA fans view this sport.”

Even Donald Trump Jr. was touting MMA, a sport John McCain once called “human cockfighting.” Trump Jr. told Men’s Fitness the Trump Organization was investing money in Affliction, not just providing name recognition. “We’re obviously a very cash-rich company,” he said. “So we can come into something to make sure it’s done appropriately. Depending on how everything goes, if we have to put in more, we’ll put in more.”

Tom Atencio, then-vice president of Affliction MMA, said he and Todd Beard, Affliction clothing’s late president, dreamed up the idea to host bouts of their own in competition with the UFC. Beard died in 2014.

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Trump got involved through mutual business associates, Atencio said. Meanwhile, Millen claims that a manufacturer of men’s suits introduced Beard to Trump. (Back then, Millen was vice president of M-1 Global, an MMA promoter based in St. Petersburg, Russia, which co-promoted Affliction events.)

Despite Trump’s grandstanding, it’s unclear whether his company had a financial stake in the fight club or simply licensed his name. “I really can’t speak about it,” Atencio told The Daily Beast. “I guess the easiest way to say it: It was a lot different than the public understood it to be. At the time, we did things just like any other business. It’s kind of a facade, if you will. Nothing is always as it seems.”

Trump, along with boxing promoter Oscar De La Hoya, was brought in to make MMA a mainstream sport, Atencio said. “It got in the mainstream media because of him,” Atencio said of Trump.

Atencio said he met with Cohen, the chief operating officer, a few times for lunch but that “at the end of the day, he was really Donald Trump’s lawyer and had nothing to do with the events.” Atencio said he got “a big kick out of” seeing Cohen’s COO title in recent news reports.

“He told me that he studied martial arts.”
— Former Affliction VP Tom Atencio, on Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen

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“He told me that he studied martial arts,” Atencio said of Cohen. “He was a really nice guy. [But] he wasn’t involved in any of the operations or putting things together. Nothing.” They would have lunch again after Affliction’s collapse, when Atencio visited New York.

All three Affliction events featured Emelianenko as the main event. But the company, which was hemorrhaging cash on glitz and payroll, folded before the third bout, “Affliction: Trilogy,” which was scheduled for August 2009.

Emelianenko was slated to battle Josh “The Babyfaced Assassin” Barnett, who tested positive for steroids weeks before the event. Affliction pulled the plug, claiming they couldn’t find a replacement.

“I always said in the media... it was our third event and had we broke even or at least gotten close to breaking even, we would have continued to move forward,” Atencio said.

Yet Emelianenko and M-1 sued Affliction two months later, saying Barnett wasn’t the reason the league went under. According to the lawsuit, which alleged a breach of contract, Emelianenko was to fight a minimum of three bouts, for $300,000 each, plus travel and accommodation expenses.

The Russian brawler claimed M-1 helped to secure a new opponent, Brett Rogers. He also claimed he informed Affliction he was willing to pit himself against several other fighters, including Bobby Lashley, court papers state.

Emelianenko accused Affliction of having ulterior motives. The league was secretly securing a sponsorship deal with UFC and failed to inform him of their intention to cancel “Affliction: Trilogy,” the complaint claimed. On July 24, 2009, as the fighter was on a plane bound for Los Angeles with a 30-man entourage, the UFC and Affliction were allegedly negotiating the upstart league’s demise. When Emelianenko landed in L.A., he learned his third matchup was toast, his lawsuit alleged.

The parties settled the case in August 2011, court records show. Attorneys for both sides declined to comment to The Daily Beast.

Mike Bassiri, then general counsel for Affliction, said he helped negotiate contracts with the fighters and the venues. He declined to answer whether Trump invested in Affliction’s MMA arm but said the company’s T-shirt business, along with pay-per-view revenues, financed most of the fight productions.

When asked if Trump took legal action after Affliction shuttered, Bassiri said no. Asked about a potential settlement with Trump, he answered, “I can’t discuss that with you. I’m sorry.” MMA was blowing up, Bassiri recalls, and Trump wanted to be a part of it.




Emelianenko was at the center of another failed enterprise backed by Trump: a reality TV series called “Fighting Fedor.” Millen pitched the 15-episode project, which was supposed to be taped in St. Petersburg, Russia.

In October 2008, Affliction announced it would begin filming the show, which would send 16 unknown fighters to Russia for a chance to battle Emelianenko. Trump and M-1 Global were listed as partners.

“I don’t know who is going to make it through, but whoever it is will be incredible,” Trump said in a press release for the Soviet spectacular, adding, “I’m going to be there, but I don’t want to compete on the show.”

Filming for the series never got off the ground. Millen said internal disagreements led to the project’s downfall, especially after he left M-1 Global and Affliction’s MMA bid failed. “We just didn’t do it,” Millen said.

“Emelianenko was at the center of another failed enterprise backed by Trump: a reality TV series called "Fighting Fedor."”

Still, Trump sat ringside for Affliction’s pair of California contests. Melania Trump joined him for at least one, according to an Orange County Register columnist who attended Affliction’s sop****re battle in January 2009. “I think it’s very brutal,” Melania told the reporter. “But it’s a business and a sport.”

Donald Trump interrupted her and declared, “You know why she comes? Because she has no choice.” (The OC scribe, who was on the hunt for female MMA fans, also spotted Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag from MTV’s The Hills and porn star Jenna Jameson, who was dating MMA fighter and Apprentice contestant Tito Ortiz.)

“You know why she comes? Because she has no choice.”
— Donald Trump, on Melania Trump’s appearance at an MMA fight

Three days before “Affliction: Banned,” Trump appeared on The Howard Stern Show to plug his foray into MMA. “We have Fedor the Russian who has never been defeated,” Trump boasted, adding, “His thing is inflicting death on people. He’s abnormally strong.

“His neck, I think it’s like 28 inches,” the now-president added.

Trump told Stern he loves boxing, but that the sport has “lost an edge” and “you get tired of it.” He suggested MMA quenched a need for something more violent.

“Well, this way, it’s sort of like… somebody dies,” Trump said. “I’ve never seen anything like it, and it’s terrible… It’s not like ‘Oh, how are the judges voting,’ OK. It’s like, you know, somebody just succumbs.”

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TORTURE EXPERT TELLS MMA FIGHTER WHO WATERBOARDED HIMSELF IN SUPPORT OF GINA HASPEL 'YOU’RE JUST HOLDING YOUR BREATH'
BY NICOLE ROJAS ON 5/14/18 AT 11:00 AM

An expert on torture gave a brief lesson on waterboarding to Tim Kennedy, a former Green Beret and MMA fighter, who posted a video of himself being subjected to waterboarding in support of CIA nominee Gina Haspel.

“Wrong. That’s not how it’s done. You’re just holding your breath,” Malcolm Nance tweeted at Kennedy on Saturday. Nance, a former counterterrorism and intelligence officer for the United States government, is the executive director of a non-profit defense research institute called TAPSTRI.

“As a former SERE instructor & #Waterboarding qual’d resistance team member I can tell you it’s about aggression, intent, tiedown, pour technique, rate of flow & other factors," he continued. "It’s a Nazis/Commie torture. Deal w/it.”

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Wrong. That’s not how it’s done. You’re just holding your breath. As a former SERE instructor & #Waterboarding qual’d resistance team member I can tell you it’s about aggression, intent, tiedown, pour technique, rate of flow & other factors. It’s a Nazis/Commie torture. Deal w/it https://twitter.com/timkennedymma/st...09719412756480 …

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Nance did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment.

Kennedy released a 41-minute-long video on Saturday in which he was voluntarily waterboarded by friends while answering questions in between, The Hill reported.

“The reason we are doing this … is for us to have a conversation. Right now, an amazing hero has been appointed to be director of the CIA and because of that, some of the things she has done are being attacked,” Kennedy said about President Donald Trump’s pick to run the CIA.

Haspel’s appointment as the next director of the CIA has faced some opposition over her role in the intelligence agency’s detention and interrogation program.

Kennedy subjected himself to multiple waterboarding sessions and claimed that the interrogation technique was not torture but simply uncomfortable.

“If I can change one person’s mind about what torture is and what I would do to protect American freedom, I will do this for years,” he said about waterboarding.

The former UFC fighter defended his video when told that it did not accurately portray how waterboarding is done.

“Pretty sure I am intimately familiar with how it is done. I promise keeping your hands willingly out of the equation is much more difficult. Do in a basement, with little sleep, with crap food, it’s just water in the face from a bucket, on a slope,” he tweeted.

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Pretty sure I am intimately familiar with how it is done. I promise keeping your hands willingly out of the equation is much more difficult. Do in a basement, with little sleep, with crap food, it’s still just water in the face from a bucket, on a slope. https://twitter.com/forensictoxguy/s...01414212976640 …

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Kennedy maintained that waterboarding is not torture but “questioning.” He also said that he “absolutely” opposes torture. “I’m simply saying that waterboarding simply isn’t torture. I am in favor or [sic] getting a--hole terrorists to talk,” he replied to one commenter on Twitter.

According to CNN, Republican leaders are confident that Haspel will be confirmed, despite Arizona Republican Senator John McCain announcing his opposition last week. Indiana Democratic Senator Joe Donnelly, however, became the second Democrat to add his support for her nomination over the weekend.

Two notable senators, Democrat Jeff Flake and Republican Lisa Murkowski, remain undecided.


CIA Director nominee Gina Haspel speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate (Select) Committee on Intelligence May 9, 2018 in Washington, DC. If confirmed, Haspel will succeed Mike Pompeo to be the next CIA director.
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"Dangerous" MMA Fighter Arrested After Vicious Road Rage Assault in Shuangjing
Charles Liu | May 22, 2018 8:30 am

A citywide manhunt for a Beijing's most-wanted "dangerous" man came to an end Saturday after a violent road rage incident shocked the city with its brutal violence.

A 20-year-old Beijing man named "Ma X Ru" confessed to committing "intentional injury" after police barged their way into a Fangshan residence where he had been hidden by his father, "Ma X De" (full video here).



The arrest was so anticipated that the Beijing Youth Report published it as "breaking news" while Chaoyang police said they enlisted a boxing champion to help apprehend the suspect.

Described as having "professional combat skills" and "dangerous" by China Daily, Ma shocked the city with his violent beat-down that became national news.

Video taken at the scene show Ma repeatedly assaulting a blue-shirted man during the Friday evening rush hour after what appeared to be a traffic collision in Shuangjing.



Ma viciously pummels the victim with a flurry of punches and knees with frightening accuracy while simultaneously grappling him with wrist and head locks. Despite the victim appearing to be concussed, Ma continued to assault him even as three separate women tried to verbally intervene.

After fleeing from the scene, Ma hid at a Fangshan residence that belongs to his father, who has been charged by police for harboring a fugitive. The victim, a man named Peng, is said to be recovering in hospital.

As part of their investigation, police say they found training equipment like a sandbag and sparring gloves belong to Ma, thereby confirming that Ma trains in mixed-martial arts (MMA).



Although China has been relatively late in adopting mixed-martial arts, the sport has already gained a dubious reputation in the country.

Although China already has a number of MMA promotions that feature such fighters such as "Black Dragon" Israel Adesanya, mixed-martial arts has become known as a "foreign" sport competing for supremacy with traditional Chinese martial arts. Over the past year, Beijing MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong sparked a public backlash against the nascent sport by challenging and then defeating Chinese kung fu masters in martial arts showdowns.

At the same time, mixed-martial arts training centers have sprouted up throughout China, including here in Bejing.

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Why is China so fixated on the foreign-ness of stuff? So xenophobic.

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Well, that's awfully convenient.

More on Volkan Oezdemir here

Charges dropped against Volkan Oezdemir in felony battery case
By Marc Raimondi@marc_raimondi Jul 9, 2018, 2:15pm EDT


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Volkan Oezdemir can now focus fully on the giant fight he has next month.

The UFC light heavyweight contender had charges against him dismissed Monday in his felony battery case in Broward County (Fla.) court, his lawyer Bruce Zimet told MMA Fighting in a statement.

The information was confirmed by spokesperson Kristi Grimm from the state attorney’s office. The case has been ruled nolle prosequi, which means the prosecution will no longer pursue the charge. Grimm said the charges were dropped “due to lack of cooperation from the victim.”

Oezdemir’s trial was set to start Monday for the third-degree felony charge. He was being accused of striking and knocking out a man outside a Fort Lauderdale bar in August 2017. The Switzerland native, who trains out of Combat Club in Lantana, Fla., was arrested in November.

When Oezdemir was first charged, he had to surrender his passport. It ended up likely costing him two potential bouts against Mauricio Rua. A fight against “Shogun” was postponed after being initially announced for Chile in May. Then, last week, Oezdemir was pulled from a fight with Rua in Germany later this month.

The good news is Oezdemir has what could be a title eliminator coming his way instead. He’ll fight Alexander Gustafsson at UFC 227 on Aug. 4 in Los Angeles. The winner will have an inside track on a light heavyweight belt currently in flux with champion Daniel Cormier winning the heavyweight title over the weekend.

Oezdemir, 28, last fought in a title fight against Cormier at UFC 220 back in January, a second-round TKO loss. Before that, he won three straight to begin his UFC career quickly. Oezdemir (15-2) finished both Jimi Manuwa and Misha Cirkunov last year in less than a minute to earn the title shot.

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Ferguson is referenced here but not busted before, at least not as recorded on this thread.

Wife of UFC fighter Tony Ferguson files restraining order after police visits to home
Steven Marrocco, MMA Junkie Published 7:07 p.m. ET March 14, 2019 | Updated 7:12 p.m. ET March 14, 2019

The wife of former UFC interim lightweight champion Tony Ferguson on Wednesday filed a restraining order against her husband, alleging domestic violence.

According to online records, Cristina Ferguson filed the restraining order in Orange County (Calif.) Superior Court. An ex-parte hearing took place the same day. The court’s domestic violence prevention services project has scheduled an investigation for March 22; a domestic violence hearing is scheduled for April 5.

Details were not immediately available on the specific allegations made by Cristina Ferguson. The court’s definition of a domestic violence restraining order is an “order that helps protect people from abuse or threats of abuse from someone they have a close relationship with.”

MMA Junkie obtained five police incident reports that detail several domestic disturbances at the Ferguson residence since January 2018, including three in the past month. The police reports were redacted to protect certain identifying information. Tony Ferguson wasn’t arrested or charged with a crime in any of those situations.

MMA Junkie was unable to reach Cristina Ferguson or her attorney of record for comment. Tony Ferguson’s management, Paradigm Sports, issued a statement to MMA Junkie: “This is a private family matter that is in the process of being resolved.”


Ferguson celebrates after beating Anthony Pettis during UFC 229. (Photo: Stephen R. Sylvanie, USA TODAY Sports)

The restraining order was filed less than one week after six police units were dispatched to the Ferguson home in Santa Ana. Cristina Ferguson told police she was at her parent’s house in La Mirada this past Friday when Tony Ferguson took their 2-year-old son back to their house and changed the locks on the doors, according to a police report. She said she didn’t fear for the child’s safety, and officers left after determining there was no custody order and no crime committed.

On Feb. 19, police conducted a welfare check on Tony Ferguson after he made unknown threats, and his wife and son left their house, according to a separate police report. Police spoke to an unidentified female who stated Tony Ferguson had “not slept for three days and was tearing apart the home” and “broke apart the fire place and believed someone placed a (computer) chip in his leg.” An unidentified male who’d called the police said the fighter had told him “someone was inside his walls.” Nearly two hours after the police made contact, Cristina Ferguson told police her husband’s trainer couldn’t get him to leave the house to see a doctor.

Just three days earlier, on Feb. 16, Cristina Ferguson called police from a nearby park after leaving their home. She said that, while Tony Ferguson hadn’t been violent to her or anyone else, she was concerned for her husband’s well being. In police comments on the incident report, she reported that “he kept throwing ‘holy water’ at her,” and his condition — redacted in the report — had been getting worse. He’d also refused to go to a hospital for an evaluation.

When officers showed up to the their house, one advised Tony Ferguson to see a doctor. He agreed to go and was not deemed a danger to himself or others. But Cristina Ferguson was advised to take their child to her parents’ house.

In more than one police report, officers note Ferguson is a UFC fighter and owns a taser. They are also advised to send multiple units for any calls.

In January 2018, police were called on two separate occasions for family disturbances. Ferguson’s father reported his son was “out of control” and kicked him out of the house. Tony Ferguson also reported Cristina Ferguson missing overnight.

The restraining order against Tony Ferguson comes on the heels of UFC President Dana White commenting on “personal issues” facing the fighter. When asked by a fan about Ferguson’s absence from the octagon, White said he’s “dealing with a lot of personal issues right now and can’t fight. Hopefully things turn around for him and he can get back in there.”

Ferguson, who’s won his past 11 fights, hasn’t competed since a second-round TKO win over Anthony Pettis last October at UFC 229. Ferguson was in line for a title shot against lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov. But after Nurmagomedov was issued a nine-month suspension for his role in an infamous melee at UFC 229, the promotion’s plans for the division stalled. White has since indicated Nurmagomedov might first do a rematch with Conor McGregor, who was arrested this week in Miami after allegedly smashing and stealing a fan’s phone.

Late last month, the promotion announced an interim lightweight title fight between featherweight champ Max Holloway and Dustin Poirier for April 13 at UFC 235. White later said Ferguson turned down the fight with Poirier, adding that the decision hurt his immediate title hopes.

“Tony didn’t want the fight. It’s the fight I wanted (with Poirier). We even tried to make the fight (with Holloway), and he didn’t want it,” White said. “You can’t make anybody fight.”

Ferguson has since called for fights with McGregor and Nurmagomedov, calling for the champ to defend or vacate the belt.

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More on Salikhov.

USADA notifies Muslim Salikhov of potential anti-doping violation
By: Steven Marrocco | July 20, 2018 3:55 pm


Muslim Salikhov def. Ricky Rainey at UFC on FOX 29: Best photos

UFC welterweight Muslim Salikhov failed a drug test and has been notified of a potential UFC anti-doping policy violation.

The promotion today released a statement confirming the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency’s notification of a potential violation, which stems from an out-of-competition drug test conducted June 7 in Russia.

Salikhov (14-2 MMA, 1-1 UFC) was unbooked at the time of his potential violation. Two days ago, however, he wrote on his Instagram page that he was preparing for a UFC fight.

Salikhov has yet to comment on the news of his failed drug test. His manager, Ali Abdelaziz, did not return a request for comment.

Salikhov most recently appeared in the octagon in April, when he stopped short-notice opponent Ricky Rainey (13-5 MMA, 0-1 UFC) in the second round of their FS1-televised fight at UFC on FOX 29. The win evened out his UFC record after a debut setback against Alex Garcia.

Prior to signing with the UFC, Salikhov got the MMA world’s attention with a spinning hook kick knockout of UFC vet Melvin Guillard in China. A decorated Wushu Sanda practitioner, the 34-year-old is the only non-Chinese person who has won the Wushu Sanda King’s Cup.

THREADS:
Sanda
Busted MMA fighters and fights

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Danny Lynn Tims III
Danny Lynn Tims III Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office

CRIME
This ex-MMA fighter faces attempted-murder charges after stabbing, police say
BY ELIZABETH FINNY
efinny@miamiherald.com
July 30, 2018 08:20 AM
Updated July 30, 2018 01:52 PM

A former mixed-martial arts fighter might do time behind bars.

Danny Lynn Tims III was arrested on Saturday night in Jupiter after officers responded to a stabbing at 5 p.m. at the Jupiter Cove apartment complex, police told WPTV-Channel 5.

The man who was stabbed was taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach, a spokeswoman for the Jupiter Police Department told the Palm Beach Post. He remained in critical condition on Sunday,

Tims, a 29-year-old Jupiter resident, is being charged with attempted homicide, robbery, aggravated battery, and vehicle theft, according to jail records. He is being held on a $653,000 bond.

According to CBS4 Miami, Tims hasn’t fought professionally since 2015 — his record is listed as 10-5-1 by several MMA websites. The Post reported that he fought in the Kansas City, Missouri, area.

Hope the victim pulls through.

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How horrible.

Brazilian MMA fighter arrested in suspected beating death of 1-year-old son
Lightweight fighter Joel Santos is in custody alongside his child’s stepmother in Dourados, Brazil.
By Lucas Rezende@rezenluc Aug 20, 2018, 7:30pm EDT


Photo by Alexandre Loureiro/Getty Images

Brazilian news outlet G1 reports that Joel Rodrigo Avalo Santos has been arrested for the suspected beating death of his 1-year-old son. Santos, a lightweight MMA fighter from Dourados, Brazil, went by the nickname ‘Joel Tigre’ and amassed a 12-4 record fighting on regional shows in his home country.

According to local police, Santos was taken into custody along with his wife, Jessica Leite Ribeiro (the child’s stepmother), since they had been living in the same house as the boy for the last 9 days prior to his death. Police report that the fatal injuries seem to have been caused by a blow to the back, resulting in broken ribs and a lacerated liver. The injuries were first noticed hours before the child’s death, when medics came to the home in response to a call that the child was choking. The victim apparently also showed signs of previous harm.

The report from G1 details that the infant died on the morning of August 16. Santos and Ribeiro were arrested on the same afternoon. The child’s biological mother told reporters that she has a restraining order against the two, on account of other previous cases of aggression.

Police chief Marcelo Damaceno said both suspects spent the night at the station, and that they denied any accusations of wrongdoing, saying that the baby died of natural causes.

“The father and the stepmother spent the night here in the police station and will remain arrested for the crime of mistreatment, which is qualified by the baby’s death. In their testimony, they denied it and claimed the child died of natural causes. However, an autopsy showed clear signs of of aggression.”

In a separate report, Santos’ teammate, Luis Bezerra, said that he was shocked by the news.

“I don’t want to believe he did it. But if he’s guilty, I hope he pays for what he did, because I have a son, too.”

In a hearing on Friday, August 17th, a judge ordered both Santos and Ribeiro be detained indefinitely, pending investigation.

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Not quite a bust in the arrested sense, but this is definitely an MMA fight gone wrong.

10-year-old injured when chairs fly during martial arts event at Cowboy's Dance Hall
by Ariana Lubelli, SBG San Antonio


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SAN ANTONIO - Chaos broke out a mixed marital arts event held at Cowboy's Dance Hall last weekend.

Witnesses say chairs, tables, beer and glass cups were thrown when a winner was announced.

"Total chaos, I mean really, it was like looking from up there, one throws this, one throws that," said Denise Nogueira.

She and her husband own Brazilian Top Team San Antonio. Several of their students were competing in the tournament.

"And yelling to them, in Portugese, 'you going to die, you going to die' and I was like 'oh my God, this is not going to end good,'" said Nogueira.

One chair was thrown at her husband Diego.

"Then one of the guys just picked up his chair and my husband was turning around, he picked up the chair and like throws right on his head," said Nogueira.

The chair struck him in the leg and luckily, he was not seriously injured. However, a 10-year-old was hit in the head and rushed to the hospital. He needed 8 staples in the back of his head.

"It's sad, frustrating. A lot of kids around watching the fight, it's good entertainment for the city," said Diego.

'mixed marital arts' Weren't we just discussing that specific typo here somewhere?

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Chinese MMA promotion Chin Woo Men under investigation for financial crimes
The rising MMA promotion’s parent company is accused by Chinese regulators of ‘illegally absorbing public deposits’.
By Tim Bissell @timothybissell Sep 3, 2018, 7:30pm EDT


Guangzhou, China, home of Chin Woo Men’s parent company Guangzhou Elephant Health Technology Co. Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images

Chin Woo Men (sometimes referred to as Jing Wu Men) is a popular Chinese MMA promotion based in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province. Since late 2016 CWM has hosted nine events in China, mostly in Guangdong, but also in Henan Province. CWM’s most recent card, in July 2018, included four fights with veterans from organizations such as Jungle Fight and Road FC.

Lee Li of AsiaMMA.com writes that since being founded in 2016 CWM has received a lot of recognition in China, which is currently witnessing an uneasy boom in mixed martial arts. The sport has dramatically grown in popularity over recent years, but is yet to receive serious mainstream attention or any kind of endorsement from China’s government.

In light of that uneasy relationship, AsiaMMA reported last week that Chinese MMA – and specifically CWM – has suffered a serious hit to their reputation. The Guangzhou Municipal Public Safety Bureau has opened an investigation into CWM’s parent company Guangzhou Elephant Health Technology Co. (GEHTC).

Along with operating CWM, GEHTC owns Health Mall – a sports e-commerce platform that provides software to sports coaches and manages sports event intellectual property (per China Money Network).

GETHC’s CEO Yang Huali has been arrested along with nine other executives from the company after accusations of “illegally absorbing public deposits.” AsiaMMA describes those charges as:

...companies “engaged in financial credit business not approved by The People’s Bank of China; illegally absorbing public deposits for the purpose to lend the funds for profit; or a legally established financial institution raising or lowering the interest rate of deposits in violation of commercial bank law and relevant laws and regulations in absorbing deposits”.

Chinese outlet EcoSports states that individuals from the sports and sports education industry who invested tens of billions of yuan in GEHTC have formed WeChat groups where they accuse the company of defrauding them.


AsiaMMA’s Li opined that the scandal may have repercussions for MMA in China, writing: “The incidence of alleged mishandled financing will likely increase the scrutiny under which the sport further develops.” This incident, which may have seen hundreds of individuals lose money to an MMA promoter, is not the first scandal that has threatened MMA’s shot at widespread appeal in China.

Last year Chengdu’s En Bo Fight Club made international news when the club’s mysterious owner En Bo went public on his claims that he has ‘adopted’ hundreds of orphans and trained them to be fighters. Former TUF contestant Jeremy May was one of En Bo’s instructors, he spoke to Bloody Elbow about his experience training orphans last year. The local government stated that En Bo’s adoptions were illegal and removed a number of children from the gym so they could attend public schools.

Also marring MMA’s reputation are the controversial activities of Beijing based MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong. Xu, aka ‘Mad Dog’, has gone viral over the past year by beating up Wing Chun and Tai Chi masters, much to the chagrin of traditional Chinese martial arts enthusiasts (and maybe the government).

THREADS:
Busted MMA fighters and fights
That MMA vs Taiji Fight Everyones Talking About
JingWu & Ching Wu...

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Now we can add Ufc 229 Oct. 6, 2018 Khabib vs Mcgregor to our Busted MMA fighters and fights thread.

OCTOBER 6, 2018 / 10:29 PM / A DAY AGO
Arrests after Nurmagomedov beats McGregor
Philip O'Connor
4 MIN READ

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Chaos erupted after Khabib Nurmagomedov retained his UFC lightweight title with a submission victory over Ireland’s Conor McGregor on Saturday with members of his support team arrested after an all-in brawl broke out after the bout.


Oct 6, 2018; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Khabib Nurmagomedov (red gloves) fights Conor McGregor (blue gloves) during UFC 229 at T-Mobile Arena. Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports

The Russian ended McGregor’s attempt to win back the title when he sealed a brutal submission victory with a rear naked choke hold in the fourth round, which then sparked a mass brawl.

Fights broke out in and around the cage, with a red-shirted fan landing several blows on McGregor before security intervened. Both fighters were escorted from the arena by police and security.

UFC boss Dana White later told Fox Sports that three members of Nurmagomedov’s team were arrested.

The fight had been highlighted by bad blood between both camps, with McGregor pleading guilty in July as part of a deal with prosecutors to resolve charges over an April melee in which he attacked a bus the Russian was traveling on.

The situation boiled over after referee Herb Dean waved off the fight, which prompted Nurmagomedov to jump out of the cage and head straight for McGregor’s teammate and corner-man Dillon Danis, prompting a series of violent scuffles.

One man jumped the fence, swinging blows at McGregor before being bundled away by security and there were punches thrown in the crowd as police and security struggled to deal with the angry crowd, most of whom had been backing the Irishman.

White entered the octagon to try to placate Nurmagomedov, who was not presented with the belt, although he was announced as the winner.


Oct 6, 2018; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Khabib Nurmagomedov (red gloves) fights Conor McGregor (blue gloves) during UFC 229 at T-Mobile Arena. Stephen R. Sylvanie-USA TODAY Sports

The Russian’s fans chanted his name and danced in the street outside the T-Mobile Arena, but rather than the fight bringing to the end the feud, it only poured more fuel on the fire.

WRESTLING STRENGTH

McGregor, making a comeback to the octagon after nearly two years away, had looked dangerous in the early striking exchanges but as expected, Nurmagomedov quickly took the fight to the ground.

The Russian smothered him with his wrestling skills and prevented him from getting back to his feet for the rest of the first round.

The Irishman was then wobbled by an early right cross from the Russian in the second round and the fight was soon on the floor again, but this time the Russian champion was able to keep the challenger from getting his back to the cage.

McGregor survived until the end of the round, giving a tired smile as the horn went, and in the third period he managed to keep the fight standing, tripping off shots to the head and body as he rediscovered his range.

However, it proved to be too little, too late, and Nurmagomedov was once again on top in the fourth, sapping McGregor’s energy with his excruciating pressure before the choke ended the fight 3:03 into the fourth round.

Despite McGregor tapping his arm to indicate his submission, Nurmagomedov seemed to hold on to the winning choke rather than releasing it, encapsulating the bad blood between the pair.

The victory stretched Nurmagomedov’s professional record to 27-0 and handed the Irishman his second defeat in the UFC, both to the same choke hold, before the chaos began.

Editing by Greg Stutchbury

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This guy...here, here, here & here.

MMA Fighter 'Mayhem' Miller in Trouble With Law Again
By City News Service
Published at 1:57 PM PDT on Oct 23, 2018 | Updated at 2:03 PM PDT on Oct 23, 2018

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Former MMA fighter Jason "Mayhem" Miller in a file photo.

WHAT TO KNOW
Former mixed martial arts fighter Jason "Mayhem" Miller is facing a newly filed felony vandalism charge.

The allegations leave him vulnerable to a state prison term for violating probation if he's convicted.

Miller, 37, was arrested Friday and was being held without bail.

Former mixed martial arts fighter Jason "Mayhem" Miller is facing a newly filed felony vandalism charge, leaving him vulnerable to a state prison term for violating probation if he's convicted.

Arraignment was scheduled Tuesday afternoon for Miller, 37, who was arrested Friday and was being held without bail, according to jail records. It's unclear what Miller is accused of vandalizing, but his attorney said his client faces at least four years in prison if found to have violated the terms of his probation. When Miller resolved a litany of legal troubles last year, prosecutors said he could face up to 21 years in prison if he ran afoul of the law again.

"Jason is a great guy and I love him like a brother," Miller's attorney, Cameron Talley, told City News Service. "It is incredibly sad to see these continued police contacts, but I have faith he can straighten out his life."

Miller accepted a plea bargain from Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert Fitzgerald on April 5, 2017.

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Jason "Mayhem" Miller was taken into police custody after a domestic dispute turned into an hours-long standoff involving SWAT officers, K-9 units and a flurry of bizarre tweets. Mekahlo Medina reports from Mission Viejo for the NBC4 News at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014.(Published Thursday, Oct. 9, 2014)

At the time, he said he was committed to clearing probation. "I'm going to fly right," Miller told reporters then. At the time, Miller said his repeated contacts with law enforcement started after he was accused of domestic violence by an ex-girlfriend. Shortly after the allegations surfaced, he lost his job as an analyst on Fox and couldn't get any more fights.

"My entire life turned into a crisis," Miller told reporters last year. Fitzgerald sentenced him to 100 days in jail, but he had already accrued credit for time served and did not have to spend any more time in custody.

Miller was acquitted on Feb. 1, 2017, of beating up the former girlfriend, but other charges involving his conflicts with law enforcement were set aside at the time for a separate trial.

In one conflict with Orange County sheriff's deputies, he was "live- tweeting" the encounter as they tried to serve him with an arrest warrant at his Mission Viejo home in October 2014. In July 2016, he got into an argument with two women, one of whom slapped him, at the Saddle Ranch Chop House in the Triangle Square shopping center in Costa Mesa.

The heavily intoxicated Miller, who grabbed the woman who slapped him by the leg, was detained by a security guard at the restaurant until police arrived, police said. In January 2016, Miller spray-painted graffiti on a wall of a now- shuttered tattoo parlor in Lake Forest. That same month, he cranked up the volume of a stereo in the same tattoo parlor, blowing out the speakers, prosecutors said.

In October 2015, he hurled a ceramic tile at deputies and threatened them with a large fire extinguisher and metal police and had to be subdued with a Taser. In March 2015, he kicked a police officer and spit at another cop at the White House restaurant in Laguna Beach, prosecutors said.