The Navy SEAL, who shot dead Osama Bin Laden and was handcuffed on charges of assault and drunkenness, is said to have racially slurred a guard during his arrest.
Robert J O’Neill, 47, was arrested Wednesday in Frisco, Texas, where he had been recording a podcast in a cigar lounge.
The former hero, who took credit for firing the shots that killed the former al-Qaeda leader in 2011, was imprisoned in Collin County Jail and released on $3,500 bail.
Now the NYPost has reported being arrested for beating up a security guard and calling him the N-word twice while drunk in a hotel bar.
He has denied using the slur.
Pictured: O’Neill’s new mug shot. According to documents, he was arrested for beating up a security guard and calling him the N-word twice while drunk in a hotel bar. He has denied using the slur
Details of the incident were not disclosed, but records show he was held in jail in Collin County and released on $3,500 bail.
O’Neill had fallen asleep drinking at Omni at The Star, Frisco police said. A guard then tried to help him to his room on the fifth floor, first offering to use a wheelchair.
The hotel security officer told police: (‘O’Neill) turned to him, raised his fists in the air and hit him in the chest with his right palm.
Robert called him a ‘f*****gn*****.’ He would have repeated the slur again.
O’Neill vehemently denied using this slur in his arrest.
He tweeted Monday: “I categorically deny ever using this horrible language that was recently reported.”
According to a police document, the guard was so badly injured that medics had to be called in to treat him. O’Neill could barely stand because of his drunkenness.
The officer wrote in the arrest document, “Robert had a strong smell of alcoholic beverage emanating from his body, as well as red glassy eyes. Corporal Anderson noticed that Robert had a silver credit card in his hand. Robert pressed the card against the lock, trying to open the room.’
When authorities tried to question O’Neill, including how much he had been drinking, he refused to provide answers.
The former Navy SEAL just said repeatedly, “I’m fine.”
Police said he faced a class A felony for assault causing bodily harm and a class C felony for public intoxication, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Former SEAL squad member Robert O’Neil has become a podcaster and commentator on military issues
Robert J O’Neill, 47, who takes credit for firing the shots that killed the former al-Qaeda leader during a 2010 raid, was arrested Wednesday in Frisco, where he had been recording a podcast in a cigar lounge. Pictured with wife Jessica in 2017
The case is not O’Neill’s first run-in with the police since he became famous for his role in Operation Neptune Spear to assassinate bin Laden. In 2016, he was arrested in Montana for drunk driving, but prosecutors later dropped the charges.
He has become a podcaster and commentator on military issues.
In May, O’Neill expressed outrage at the US Navy using a drag queen for a discarded recruiting program.
O’Neill, who was a member of SEAL Team Six for eight years, said on Twitter that he “can’t believe he fought for this bulls**t.”
‘Agree. The US Navy is now using a sailor Drag Queen as a recruiter,” he wrote. ‘I’m ready. China is going to destroy us.’
Osama Bin Laden was the head of al-Qaeda and was the mastermind behind the September 11 attacks
Robert J O’Neill, 47, was arrested Wednesday in Frisco where he had been recording a podcast in a cigar lounge. Pictured: his mugshot from 2016
O’Neill was referring to Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, who announced on TikTok in November that she would become the Navy’s first “digital ambassador.”
Kelley was tasked with highlighting her journey from performing on board from 2018 to becoming an “advocate” for those who were “oppressed in the service for years.”
A Navy spokesperson later said the digital ambassador program was a pilot that ended in March 2023.
The program Kelley was a part of ran from October 2022 to March 2023 and was designed to “explore the digital environment to reach a broad range of potential candidates” for military recruiting.