Bryan Caraway, an ex-UFC fighter, is in trouble again after failing to appear at a hearing in Washington State. This is in relation to an insurance fraud case that dates back to 2021. Caraway was originally charged after he allegedly stole an ATV from his ex-girlfriend and fellow UFC veteran Miesha Tate. He then filed a fraudulent insurance claim on the vehicle.
“Kid Lightning” made his name on the 14th series of The Ultimate Fighter (TUF). Now, he has landed on the Washington state’s insurance commissioner’s Most Wanted list. That too for the second time — after failing to appear for his pre-trial hearing in Benton County Superior. An arrest warrant is thus out for ex-UFC bantamweight veteran Bryan Caraway.
Caraway failed to appear for Pre-Trial Conference after being charged with Forgery RCW 9A.60.020(1) (a) & (b), False Statement on Vehicle Application Certificate of Title RCW 46.12.750 (1) (a), False Claims or Proof in excess of $1500 RCW 48.30.230, and Attempted Theft 1 RCW 9A.56.030 (1) (a) and RCW 9A.28.020
An Official press statement read on Bryan Caraway
Miesha Tate cooperated with investigators from the start. She provided surveillance video of Caraway and incriminating text messages. “Cupcake” also alleged that Caraway threatened to “choke” her and take back the ATV.
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The former bantamweight contender last fought in the UFC in 2018, when he suffered a knockout loss to Pedro Munhoz. He has fought just once since leaving the UFC, with Bryan Caraway snagging one in Battlefield FC in 2019. Miesha Tate moved on from her Central Washington University mate, whereas Caraway might move on to jail if things don’t go his way.
Top UFC fighters who were arrested and for what crime
Caraway and Tate used to train at a Tri-Cities High School wrestling room and were considerable “celebrity coaches.” Bryan Caraway reported the theft of the vehicle from his Richland home, telling police that he had just returned home to Richland and found his all-terrain vehicle missing. He also filed a claim with the GEICO insurance agency. His is not the lonesome case of UFC arrest or making the list, though.
UFC legend BJ Penn and his habitual alcoholism led to many DUI arrests. Penn faced jail time for drunk driving in Hawaii in 2020. He also had various street fights, including an altercation outside a bar in 2019. When it’s DIU – Jon Jones needs a shout. Something even Miesha Tate touched on once, among others. “Bones” recently reached a bench trial settlement stemming from a drug-testing agent assault case.
MMA Veteran Thiago Silva saw his out after threatening Pablo Popovitch and his estranged wife, Thaysa Kamiji. SWAT intervened when he threatened her at gunpoint outside a gym in 2014. UFC 185lber Lee Murray committed one of the largest cash robberies, over £53 million.
On a lighter side of things, street-smart gangster Jorge Masvidal faced troubles for taking the fight too far. He sucker-punched and blew a teeth out of old friend Colby Covington outside a steakhouse in Miami. Then there’s Conor McGregor.
Multiple criminal charges with three counts of assault in 2018. One count of criminal mischief during a UFC Press Conference, throwing two guard rails at an attack on a bus. Then comes the assault charges in 2019 on a woman in a Dublin Hotel stemming from a visit last December. One count of being too ‘Notorious’ in the eyes of the law.
