Former UFC light heavyweight fighter Thiago Silva is being held without bail following an incident on Thursday evening in Oakland Park, Florida that involved his wife Thaysa Silva and Pablo Popovitch.
According to the police report, Silva showed up to Popovitch’s jiu-jitsu school in Oakland Park a pointed a gun at Thaysa and later at Popovitch.
Silva has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and obstruction without violence for incidents that occurred on Thursday evening and January 30th.
While Thaysa has not made any public comments, Popovitch released a statement on Facebook and claims that it appeared that Silva seemed to be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Concerning the incident that took place at Academy last night. During our evening class, at around 7:45pm. Thiago Silva was outside sitting in his car honking the horn non-stop. Thaysa went outside to talk to Thiago to understand what was happening and saw a gun. After that, I went to see what was happening and also saw that he had a gun. He seemed to be under the influence of some type of drug whether alcohol or drugs. My staff notified the police at that time, and soon after the police arrived. He took off and the police went after him.
Thaysa has been separated and living alone since December of 2012. Thiago has been charged with battery in the past and was seeing other girls and moving on with his own life.
It’s very unfortunate that this had to happen, the last thing I wanted us to see Thiago in this manner. I wish him all the best and hope this will soon be over.
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