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The
29-year-old, who became the first UFC fighter to hold two world
titles simultaneously when he beat Eddie Alvarez for the
lightweight belt in Manhattan in 2016, turned himself in to
police on Thursday evening after the violent incident.
"He's been charged with assault, three counts of assault, and
one count of criminal mischief," Thomas Antonetti of the NYPD
told Reuters.
"He's still in custody, still at the police precinct until he's
removed to court this morning."
As the UFC held a media day on Thursday ahead of the upcoming
fight card at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday,
McGregor and his entourage entered through a side entrance and
attacked a van containing other fighters.
Video of the fracas circulated on social media showed objects
being thrown at the van, and a number of people were injured by
glass fragments as windows were smashed.
McGregor, who previously told Reuters that he made an
eye-watering 140 million dollars from his boxing match with
Floyd Mayweather last August, has not fought in the Octagon
since the win over Alvarez in November 2016.
UFC president Dana White has said that the van attack was "the
most disgusting thing that ever happened in the history" of the
UFC.
(Reporting by Philip O'Connor; editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
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