Former UFC fighter Christian Leben was arrested on multiple criminal charges that included a felony charge for possession of an assault weapon.
The arrest revolves around an incident with Leben’s ex-wife, in which Leben tried to scale her high rise apartment and gain access to the apartment by getting on the balcony. On top of going to great lengths to gain access to the apartment, Leben was allegedly armed in the process.
Here are the details from NBC San Diego:
Christian “The Crippler” Leben was arrested earlier this month near a local bar during his 35th birthday celebration. He’s facing 11 counts of violating a court order, two counts of criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor charge for vandalism and felony possession of an assault weapon, his attorney said.
In a request for a restraining order, Leben’s estranged wife, Kaleena, wrote she awoke around 3 a.m. on June 8 to banging and kicking at her door. Around 4:30 a.m. she woke up to find Leben trying to scale the outside wall of her downtown San Diego high rise to access her apartment via the balcony.
A San Diego police report describes finding a “loaded Ruger SR45 .45 caliber handgun” on Kaleena’s bed immediately after the incident.
Kaleena then wrote in her request for a restraining order, made permanent by a judge, that her building’s management alerted her to finding an M16 assault rifle hidden in a maintenance closet a few floors from her apartment.
The day before the alleged intrusion, Kaleena wrote that she received a text message from her estranged husband, stating, “Hey love of my life you broke another promise you told me you were going to call me back I’m going to start by murdering your father at social couple guys finally turn now.”
This is a pretty scary situation. Anytime you have an ex husband, boyfriend or lover scaling your apartment in the middle of the night trying to get to you, you might want to figure out some different living arrangements.
Someone that is doing the kind of crazy stuff Leben’s ex-wife described will probably not be slowed down by a restraining order. What type of rational human being actually tries to scale their ex’s high rise apartment and try to gain access while armed with a weapon?
For Leben to do some of the things he is accused of, he can’t be in a solid state of mind right now. These are the kind of things that if go unchecked ends up with someone being severely hurt or worse.