WBA junior middleweight beltholder Austin Trout was arrested, jailed and released uncharged “within hours” from El Paso County Jail on Tuesday.
Trout could not be reached for an immediate comment on an apparent arrest for public intoxication that was first reported by The El Paso Times.
According to The El Paso Times, several officers were dispatched to the Taco Cabana restaurant at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday in response to a fight.
Trout was arrested about 4:30 a.m., booked at 8:50 a.m. and released approximately two hours later after posting a $105 bond.
An officer noticed “the strong odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage emanating from” those arrested, including Trout, who allegedly displayed “slurred speech and unsteady balance,” according to The El Paso Times.
“Austin was out with his fiancee and friends on New Years Eve, and they went to a taco place late at night to grab a bite to eat, and some women in the establishment got into some type of altercation, and Austin stood up and said, ‘Hey, ladies, ladies, calm down.’ Austin was arrested and released within hours, was not charged, and is not going to be charged,” said his promoter, Greg Cohen of Trout (26-0, 14 knockouts), a 27-year-old father of three from Las Cruces, New Mexico.
“The police came and basically arrested many of the people in there. It was the kind of thing where they acted first and asked questions later. But they didn’t charge Austin, and they let Austin go on his merry way. He didn’t do anything. It was a case of simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time, and this is not going any farther than this. It’s over with, so there’s nothing to talk about. It was a total misunderstanding. He’s not charged with anything.”
Trout is coming off a unanimous decision victory over three-division champion Miguel Cotto on Dec. 1, and is being considered for a clash with Saul “Canelo” Alvarez (41-0-1, 30 KOs) on May 4th.