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Former Navy SEAL Who Killed Osama Bin Laden Arrested In Texas


Former Navy Seal Robert J. O’Neill was arrested in Texas this week.

O’Neill who is best known as the SEAL that killed Bin Laden was arrested in Frisco, Texas and charged with a “Class A misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury and a Class C misdemeanor charge of public intoxication.”

O’Neill has since been released on a $3,500 bond.

More details regarding the incident haven’t been disclosed.

Per The New York Post:

The former Navy SEAL who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden was arrested in Texas this week.

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Robert J. O’Neill, 47, was booked Wednesday in Frisco and slapped with a Class A misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury and a Class C misdemeanor charge of public intoxication, although jail records listed only the assault charge, The Dallas Morning News reported.

Frisco police declined to release more information Friday about the arrest.

O’Neill was released the same day on a $3,500 bond.

O’Neill had been in town to record a podcast at a local cigar lounge.

Per Newsmax:

Retired Navy SEAL Robert J. O’Neill, who claims to have fired the shots that killed Osama bin Laden, was arrested in Frisco, Texas this week, The Dallas Morning News reports.

O’Neill, 47, was arrested and booked into jail in Collin County, Texas on Wednesday. He was later released on a $3,500 bond later that same day. He did not respond to requests for comment.

Frisco police said in a written statement to the Morning News that O’Neill faces a Class A misdemeanor charge of assault causing bodily injury and a Class C misdemeanor charge of public intoxication. Jail records list only the assault charge, according to the newspaper.



 

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