U.S. Marshals spokesperson told Fox Sports that MMA fighter War Machine, whose birth name is Jonathan Koppenhaver, has been arrested Friday in Simi Valley, California by U.S. Marshals after being on the run for more than a week following the alleged assault of his girlfriend. He was at Simi Valley jail on Friday afternoon pending his extradition to Nevada.
TMZ reports that the former UFC fighter had several warrants out, 5 of them for alleged felonies.
War Machine’s ex-girlfriend Christy Mack, a well-known adult-film star, is accusing him of horrifically beating & nearly killing her in the early morning hours of August 8th. The alleged assault resulted in 18 broken bones around her eyes, missing teeth, broken nose, a fractured rib & ruptured liver, Mack wrote in a statement on Twitter.
Source: Fox Sports
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