The Daily Populous Thursday May 29th, 2025 night edition
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Former UFC champion BJ Penn has been arrested twice in the past three days in Hawaii on charges of abuse of a family or household member.

According to online records, Penn, 46, was arrested on Sunday and released on $2,000 bail. He was arrested again and placed on $1,000 bail on Monday, per online records. A video posted to his social media account appears to show police handcuff and escort him out of his residence during the arrest on Sunday.

Penn, who retired from professional MMA in 2019, has recently claimed online that multiple members of his family are missing. He has accused unnamed imposters of replacing those family members in an effort to steal his inheritance. Last month, he publicly asked the Hilo Police Department to investigate their murders.

"If I harm any of these people that are acting like my mom or my brothers, I go to jail and lose everything. If they harm me, nothing will happen to them and I lose everything," Penn posted on Instagram on April 8. "I have my black belts over the years that are police officers. Are you guys gonna help me? Are we going to help [my brothers] and my mother and look for them and investigate these fake frauds who are trying to steal everything from my family?"

Penn is a former UFC lightweight and welterweight champion. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest lightweights of all time. His career ended on a seven-fight losing streak from 2011 to 2019, during which he suffered three losses via knockout.

blankblank on May 28th, 2025 at 16:03 UTC »

> According to online records, Penn, 46, was arrested on Sunday and released on $2,000 bail. He was arrested again and placed on $1,000 bail on Monday, per online records.

If you get arrested, bail out, and then get arrested again the next day for doing the same or similar thing, bail should be off the table.

DTFlash on May 28th, 2025 at 15:25 UTC »

Penn "recently claimed online that multiple members of his family are missing. He has accused unnamed imposters of replacing those family members in an effort to steal his inheritance"

That's really bad and this guy needs help ASAP.

GoldGlove2720 on May 28th, 2025 at 14:47 UTC »

This guy is going to do something absolutely horrific. He believes his mother was replaced and not his actual “mother”.

He very much has CTE and he’s not going to get better unfortunately.