{"id":754029,"date":"2026-06-23T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754029\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T01:30:10","slug":"dustin-poirier-mugshot-released-after-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/754029\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Poirier Mugshot Released After Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim Lightweight champion was booked Sunday evening (June 21, 2026) on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\/452590\/ufc-star-dustin-poirier-arrested-georgia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">misdemeanor \u201cPublic Drunk\u201d charge<\/a>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/06\/22\/ufc-star-dustin-poirier-arrested-drunk-in-public\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ Sports<\/a>. \u201cThe Diamond\u201d was booked at 6:38 p.m. ET and released a few hours later, around 10:15 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Poirier made his initial court appearance earlier today (Mon., June 22, 2026), though the exact circumstances surrounding his arrest remain unclear at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Check out his mugshot below (h\/t Happy Punch).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Shortly after news of the arrest surfaced, Poirier appeared to address the situation on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">\u201cLove you all,\u201d Poirier wrote. \u201cI\u2019m working on myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The 37-year-old recently retired from mixed martial arts (MMA) following his final fight against Max Holloway at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/19\/24466426\/ufc-318-results-live-streaming-updates-dustin-poirier-vs-max-holloway-3-ppv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UFC 318<\/a> in July 2025 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2025\/7\/20\/24470801\/video-highlights-max-holloway-dustin-poirier-3-ufc-318-results-espn-ppv-new-orleans-retirement-bmf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">watch highlights<\/a>). Poirier walked away as one of the most beloved action fighters of his generation, compiling a 30-10 record with one \u201cNo Contest\u201d while scoring massive wins over Holloway, Conor McGregor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/2021\/1\/24\/22246317\/ufc-257-full-fight-video-highlights-mcgregor-poirier-2-results-ppv-mma-espn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">twice<\/a>), Justin Gaethje, Eddie Alvarez and Michael Chandler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For what it\u2019s worth, Ben Askren revealed that Poirier was \u201chaving a good time at the Airport\u201d and wrestled some of Askren\u2019s friends before his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Public drunkenness in Georgia can carry a fine and possible jail time if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) interim Lightweight champion was booked Sunday evening (June 21, 2026) on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,179146,355513],"class_list":["post-754029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-mma-social-media-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}