Robert J O’Neill – the Navy SEAL who killed bin Laden – is arrested in Texas for assault and public intoxication
- Robert J O’Neill, 47, was arrested in Texas on Wednesday on charges of assault and drunkenness
- O’Neill, who was in Frisco to record a podcast at a cigar lounge, was released on $3,500 bond
- Former SEAL Team Six soldier has taken credit for firing the bullets that killed Osama Bin Laden during a 2010 raid
The NAVY Seal who shot dead Osama Bin Laden has been arrested in Texas on charges of assault and drunkenness.
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.
Details of the incident were not disclosed, but records show he was held in jail in Collin County and released on $3,500 bail.
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.
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.
Details of the incident were not disclosed, but records show he was held in jail in Collin County and released on $3,500 bail.
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. Pictured: his mugshot from 2016
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
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
Former SEAL squad member Robert O’Neil has become a podcaster and commentator on military issues.
The tweet O’Neill sent has been viewed more than a million times
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.