Conor McGregor didn’t put up a fight when Miami police officers took him into custody on suspicion of strong-arm robbery last month.
But the former UFC two-division champion certainly made the cops wait while he called for legal help, according to bodycam footage obtained by MMA Junkie and first reported by TMZ.
Eventually, officers tired of waiting outside McGregor’s Airbnb mansion and knocked on the front door. A man who appeared to be a bodyguard asked for five minutes while the Irish star got his affairs in order.
“He is going to cooperate,” the McGregor rep told officers.
“I get it – I just don’t want to be out here waiting forever,” one officer responded.
Police arrived at McGregor’s rented home on March 11 after he allegedly destroyed and stole Ahmed Abdirzak’s cell phone outside the Fontainebleau hotel hours earlier. He was charged with strong-arm robbery and criminal mischief – second and third-degree felonies, respectively – before bonding out of jail.
Prosecutors with the Miami state attorney’s office reduced the charges to sudden snatching, a third-degree felony, and misdemeanor criminal mischief. McGregor’s attorney pleaded not guilty to the charges at an arraignment on May 10.
Abdirzak claims he was taking cell phone video of McGregor when the fighter approached him and extended his hand, only to slap the phone away and stomp on it. He later picked it up and made off with the device. Surveillance video released by the state attorney’s office appears to back up Abdirzak’s account.
McGregor’s attorneys are likely to push for a plea deal as any conviction could prevent him from traveling into the U.S. The 30-year-old fighter announced his retirement from MMA this past month, though he is widely expected to return to the cage.
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