Police arrested Florida State University kicker Conor McAneney on Wednesday while on Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale. According to jail records, the 20-year-old sophomore now faces multiple charges.
NBC 6 South Florida reports that when security tried to remove McAneney from Rock Bar at 225 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard at approximately 2:30 a.m., he resisted, prompting cops to intervene. That is when he allegedly became “uncooperative and violent.”
“It should be noted that the defendant had been removed from several bars throughout the evening for causing disturbances,” the arrest report reads.
According to the complaint, an officer grabbed Conor McAneney beneath the arms to force him to loosen his hold on the bar’s barrier gates.
The officer noted in the report that the Florida State kicker then “attempted to pull me down, placing me off balance, nearly falling through the barrier into the roadway where traffic was flowing,” after grabbing the officer’s arm or shirt.
A police officer then punched McAneney twice in the face and knocked him to the ground, where he continued to “actively resist our attempts to place him into custody”. After a short scuffle, officers finally handcuffed him, according to the arrest report.
After officers transported McAneney, who is from Plumbridge, Ireland, to a nearby hospital, authorities booked him into jail. They charged him with battery on a police officer, firefighter or EMT, resisting an officer with violence, and trespassing in an occupied structure or conveyance. The court set his bond at $2,750, and, as of Thursday morning, Local 10 News reports, he remained behind bars at the Broward Main Jail.