Conor McGregor and SBG teammate Cian Cowley are officially in police custody after turning themselves in to the NYPD late Thursday night, a spokesman for the Department confirmed with MMA Fighting.
McGregor has now been charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal mischief due to his involvement in a wild assualt at the Barclays Center following the UFC 223 media day. Cowley, an SBG teammate of McGregor’s and a fellow MMA fighther, was charged with one count of assault and one count of criminal mischief.
At the end of the UFC media day event, McGregor, Artem Lobov and other members of the Dubliner’s entourage stormed the backstage area after gaining entry to the building. In what is thought to be an act of retaliation for Khabib Nurmagomedov taunting Lobov earlier in the week, the Irishman’s entourage threw objects at a bus full of UFC 223 fighters, including the Russian lightweight title challenger. McGregor was filmed throwing a dolly through a window of the bus.