It’s develop into clear lately that there’s something very fallacious with BJ Penn, and the state of affairs appears to be getting worse.
Just lately, LowKick MMA reported that Penn had been arrested on a cost of “abuse household or family member: offensive bodily contact.” A video of the previous UFC famous person mendacity in his mattress whereas being surrounded by a half-dozen law enforcement officials additionally made the rounds on social media.
After repeatedly asking the officers questions, Penn was finally pulled from his mattress, cuffed, and booked.
Penn posted a $2,000 bond and was handed a court docket date, however the drama didn’t cease there.
Based on MMA Combating, Penn’s mom, Lorraine Shin, filed for a restraining order towards her son following the arrest. Shin claims that Penn used “excessive psychological abuse in the direction of me for over the previous a number of months, that I’m not Lorraine Shin, I killed his household and have taken over his mom’s id, and he needs me to be faraway from his residence.”
Within the request for the restraining order, Shin alleges that she returned residence from a visit on Could 11 and located “all my belongings, reminiscent of garments, sneakers, jewellery, private gadgets, and my mattress faraway from my bed room.” After Penn allegedly denied understanding the place his mom’s belongings have been, Shin filed a theft report with police.
A couple of days later, on Could 16, Shin claims “my private purse with my driver’s license, bank card, and locks for my secure have been stolen,” and she or he made a separate theft report. Shin says Penn allegedly informed her that “all of the gadgets within the secure have been his.” Shin says she then put in a lifeless bolt lock on her bed room door, together with safety cameras each inside and outdoors the house. She claims Penn was caught taking down the cameras, and “he additionally put glue into my lifeless bolts that stopped me from opening my bed room door.”
Penn reportedly denied the allegations when Shin known as the police to report the vandalism. After returning residence from one other weekend journey on Could 25, she discovered that Penn allegedly “positioned duct tape on my video cameras to dam the video digital camera and positioned glue into my deadbolt on my bed room door to cease me from coming into my bed room.” Shin additionally observed that she had no mail in her mailbox after being out of city for just a few days.
When she approached Penn in regards to the lacking mail, the ex-fighter denied taking it, however then later that night time she discovered her son inside a good friend’s automobile and claims she noticed her mail within the backseat. That led to Shin contacting the police as soon as once more, however this time, Penn allegedly shoved a flashlight in her face in an try to cease her from dialing the police telephone quantity.
“I attempted delivering a number of instructions and he continued to blind me along with his flashlight,” Shin wrote. “I then tried to seize the flashlight and take away it from my face, after which he grabbed my arms and shoved me towards the 4-door grey sedan, which I felt a pointy ache in my again. I then began to scream on the high of my voice for my son, Reagan Penn, to assist me.
“Reagan lives two homes away from me. Reagan ran over to assist me. I then dialed 911 for assist.”
BJ Penn violated 48-hour discover to steer clear of his mom’s residence
Shin says Penn was then arrested and “given 48 hours” to steer clear of the house.
Nevertheless, the subsequent morning, Shin says she was upstairs when she heard a noise downstairs, and when she went to research, she observed certainly one of her sliding glass doorways was open. Shin says that as she was strolling in the direction of the again entrance door to the home, she noticed Penn “bolting from the rear stairs to exit the again door.” She claims Penn jumped in the identical automobile along with his good friend and left.
Shin says she later heard Penn arguing together with her son, Reagan, at his residence when police have been known as once more. She says she confirmed police the video of Penn coming into and exiting her residence in violation of the 48-hour rule, and he was arrested but once more.
“I consider my son [BJ Penn] is affected by Capgras delusional syndrome (a psychiatric dysfunction through which an individual holds a delusion {that a} good friend, partner, guardian, different shut member of the family has been changed by an similar impostor),” she wrote. “He believes I’m an impostor who has killed his household to realize management of the household belongings.
“In one of the best curiosity for my security, I ask the court docket for a six-month [temporary restraining order] and have my son ordered to get medical remedy or different supply of remedy.”