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Jailed UFC Vet Allegedly Threatened BJ Penn

Jailed UFC Vet Allegedly Threatened BJ Penn

 

This past Monday, Daniel Barrera a member of The Ultimate Fighter season 6 was in court answering charges of assaulting a high school student. He was accused of trespassing on a highschool wrestling practice and attacking a female student wrestler by striking the back of her head. According to the Hawaii Tribune Herald, Barrera was removed from the court after yelling towards various present citizens including BJ Penn and his brother.

As if this wasn’t enough, Barrera found himself in court yet again this past Friday – he was charged with first degree terrorist threatening.  Hawaii Tribune Herald reports:

A mixed martial arts fighter and former cast member of “The Ultimate Fighter” reality television show in 2007 is back behind bars for the third time in a week, this time for allegedly threatening a judge.

According to court documents filed by police, 36-year-old Daniel Barrera of Keaau was taken into custody on an all-points bulletin Thursday evening on Pahoa Village Road after a nurse and a guard at Hawaii Community Correctional Center reported Barrera made threats directed toward Hilo District Judge Harry Freitas, former UFC welterweight and lightweight champion BJ Penn, Penn’s older brother, JD Penn, and police officers whom Barrera claimed beat him up.

Documents state that the guard told police Barrera said Freitas “put me here and he going get his one day” and the nurse reported Barrera said “I was in the military and I killed guys, so I get no problem killing again.” Barrera is also alleged to have told the nurse he was going to “get BJ Penn.”  Barrera also expressed anger toward Penn’s brother, whom Barrera reportedly said had him arrested for disorderly conduct Tuesday evening for allegedly challenging gym members to fight at the Penn Training and Fitness Center in Hilo.

At one point Barrera, angered at Hawaii tribune photographers said:

Barrera he told them, “Get out of the way. You’re the f——-g sideshow.”

Displaying the swollen foot in his wheelchair, Barrera said, “Look, staph. I’ve got staph. Take a picture; I’ve got staphylococcus in my foot. … Staph, bro! Good job, deputy prosecutor. I’ve got staph, bro!”

Barrera is also pending mental examinations for the Penn gym incident and for allegedly walking uninvited into a Pahoa High School wrestling practice on Feb. 3 and striking a girl grappler three times in the back, prompting a misdemeanor assault charge.