Overview
- Means, who was booked into the Metropolitan Detention Center on Wednesday, left custody Friday after a first court appearance and was released on his own recognizance.
- The criminal complaint says his 17-year-old daughter called deputies during an argument over chores and alleged he headbutted her, grabbed her neck in a strangling manner, threw a potato, and punched her.
- Officers documented red hand marks on the teen’s neck, blood in and on her nose, and multiple red marks on her face that they said were consistent with the reported assault.
- Means told deputies he argued with the teen and said he only used force to restrain her from hitting him, according to statements recorded in court records.
- He faces one felony count of abandonment or abuse of a child as the case proceeds in New Mexico court; the 42-year-old is a longtime UFC welterweight who has also worked as a high school wrestling coach.