UFC fighter Tim Means arrested on child abuse charge in New Mexico

10 articles · Updated · Fox News · Apr 26

Means, 42, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center in Albuquerque after an alleged altercation with a teenage girl at a Tijeras home.
According to a criminal complaint, Means allegedly headbutted, strangled, threw a potato at, and punched the teen, resulting in visible injuries including red marks and a bloody nose.
Means, a veteran mixed martial artist with a career spanning King of the Cage, Legacy FC, and UFC, is scheduled for a status hearing on May 26. The UFC has not yet commented.

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