UFC Fighter Tim Means Arrested on Child Abuse Charge

Tim Means, a 42-year-old veteran of the Ultimate Fighting Championship's welterweight division, was arrested in New Mexico on Wednesday and charged with felony child abuse following an alleged physical altercation with his 17-year-old daughter at their home in Tijeras.

According to a criminal complaint filed in Bernalillo County, the incident stemmed from an argument over household chores earlier that day. The teenager reported to deputies from the Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office that her father grabbed her by the neck in a strangling manner, held her against a kitchen counter, headbutted her in the nose, threw a potato at her face, and punched her on the right side of her face with a closed fist as she tried to leave. Officers who responded to her 911 call observed visible injuries, including hand and red marks on her neck indicating strangulation, blood in and around her nose from the headbutt, and several red marks on her face and cheek.

"Let it be known that there were visible hand and red marks on her neck, indicating she was strangled," the complaint stated. "There was blood on and in her nose where she was headbutted, and several red marks indicated she was hit in the...