The former Navy SEAL had told The Montana Standard at the time that he had not been scared to make his role in the mission which killed bin Laden public as he was “good friends with a lot of the local law enforcement and local SWAT team”.
Advertisement
Butte-Silver Bow County Undersheriff George Skuletich said officers found Robert O’Neill asleep early Friday morning in a running vehicle parked outside a convenience store in Butte, The Associated Press reported.
The 39-year-old retired Navy Seal refused a breathalyzer test and was jailed on a charge of DUI, a misdemeanor. O’Neill also thanked officers for their professionalism and courtesy.
O’Neill denied drinking, gave different stories about where he had been and at one point told the officers he had taken prescription medication to help him sleep, Skuletich said.
O’Neill posted bond and was released.
He told them the had just flow into Butte from overseas. Please see our terms of service for more information.
On the historic May 2, 2011, raid, O’Neill revealed that he looked Bin Laden straight in the eyes before he shot him dead.
Sheriff Ed Lester was quoted by USA Today as having said in a statement that while he has “great respect for Rob O’Neill and what he has done for our country”, the incident in which he was recently arrested “was handled the same way as any other citizen”. We need a plan to get into the Raqqa because that is where the caliphate, the capital of the caliphate, is.
Fox News Channel, which hired O’Neill as a network contributor, has profiled him in a television documentary titled: “The Man Who Killed Usama bin Laden”.
‘I don’t know what’s going to happen.
Advertisement
“It seems like they do this every few months”, he said. Another SEAL claimed the deed, and both O’Neill and that man, Matt Bissonette, violated non-disclosure agreements they signed as members of the Navy’s most elite special operations force.
