UFC star Conor McGregor was arrested in Florida on Monday for allegedly smashing a fan’s phone outside a hotel in Miami Beach.
McGregor, 30, was booked and charged with strong-armed robbery and criminal mischief, police confirmed to Fox News.
According to an arrest report, the UFC fighter was charged after he allegedly smashed a fan’s phone around 5 a.m. outside the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel.
Police said the fan tried to take a picture of McGregor with his phone, and the fighter “slapped the victim’s phone out of his hand, causing it to fall to the floor.”
Conor “then stomped on the victim’s phone several times, damaging it,”,before he allegedly picked up the phone and “walked away with it.”
The fan told investigators the phone cost $1,000.
McGregor, is being held on $12,000 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami.
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