{"id":830134,"date":"2026-07-29T00:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830134\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:28:09","slug":"anthony-smith-arrested-on-felony-charges-for-domestic-violence-terroristic-threats-and-false-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/830134\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Smith arrested on felony charges for domestic violence, terroristic threats, and false imprisonment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Anthony Smith has been arrested in Nebraska and faces multiple felony charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Following an initial report by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/07\/28\/ufc-anthony-smith-arrested-domestic-violence-terroristic-threats-false-imprisonment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TMZ Sports<\/a>, MMA Fighting\u2019s Damon Martin confirmed with court records that Smith was arrested on Monday evening at 8:44 p.m. and remains in custody in the Sarpy County Jail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Smith\u2019s arrest record indicates he faces felony charges for terroristic threats, false imprisonment in the first degree, and domestic violence causing serious bodily injury. Details of the arrest and the circumstances that led to it are not yet available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">In Nebraska, domestic violence causing serious bodily injury is a Class 2A felony, carrying with it a maximum of 20 years\u2019 imprisonment. The terroristic threats and false imprisonment in the first degree charges are Class 3A felonies, carrying a maximum of three years\u2019 imprisonment plus 18 months\u2019 post-release supervision, and up to a $10,000 fine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A former UFC light heavyweight title challenger, Smith retired last year at UFC Kansas City, when he lost by knockout to Zhang Mingyang. He ended his retirement earlier this year to compete at Jorge Masvidal\u2019s Gamebred Bareknuckle MMA event in April, submitting Chase Sherman. Smith also frequently serves as an analyst for UFC broadcasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthony Smith has been arrested in Nebraska and faces multiple felony charges. Following an initial report by TMZ&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":830135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,1347,785,85,787,1396],"class_list":["post-830134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc","tag-ufc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830134","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=830134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}