Submit Nomination for Player of the Week. Latest Newscasts. Investigate TV. Election Results. Gray DC Bureau. Louisiana Weekend. Great Health Divide. Published: Jun. Now TMZ has obtained the arrest report, which details why Lafont was arrested for assault and battery. A witness told police that Joe and his girlfriend were arguing at the Buena Vista Hotel and Spa and both appeared intoxicated. The witness claims Joe punched the woman in the chest, then grabbed her arms and shook her very hard.
Then when Joe received a call on his cell phone and the woman wanted to know who it was, he tried to burn her with a lit cigarette. According to the report, Joe denies the allegations. A rep for Trapper Joe had no comment. Joe Lafont , a. Early Wednesday morning June 20 , Trapper Joe was arrested in Orange County for domestic battery after he and his girlfriend were involved in some kind of argument, sources tell TMZ.
The specific details are not available at this time. The " Swamp People " fellas have been in the news a lot lately - back in April, Trapper Joe and his stepson Tommy were nearly killed in a five-car pile-up in Arkansas, and then in May, Mitchell Guist was killed in a boating accident in Louisiana. Joe -- full name Joe Lafont -- was arrested early this morning in Orange County for domestic battery. The precise details surrounding the arrest are still unclear. You'll recall A month after alligator hunter Mitchell Guist died of an apparent heart attack , Joe LaFont —better known as Trapper Joe on the History Channel series—was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence against his girlfriend.
According to the arrest report obtained by E! News, LaFont hit her in the chest and attempted to burn her arm with a lit cigarette during an argument outside of a Lake Buena Vista, Fla. It's unclear if the victim in was the same woman involved in the Plaquemines incident.
The report said LaFont's girlfriend suspected that he was cheating on her and wanted to see his cell phone.
When he refused to let her see the phone, they began arguing and LaFont threw a beer in her face and then she began hitting him, the report said. LaFont claimed that she also threw a candle in a glass holder that hit him in the head, but his girlfriend denied that, according to the Jefferson report. In September , cast member Nicholas L. Payne , 26, was arrested for allegedly hitting a St. Tammany Parish sheriff's deputy at a home in Pearl River. He was charged with disturbing the peace, battery of a police officer, resisting an officer and being a fugitive from another state.
LaFont also made headlines in May when he and co-star Tommy Chauvin were involved in a five-car pileup near the Arkansas-Louisiana border.
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