Kimo Leopoldo Arrested for Methamphetamine Possession

(Photo courtesy of Knucklepit.)

2009 is turning out to be a blockbuster year for MMA fighters fooling around and falling in jail. First we had Josh Neer arrested for hit-and-run/DUI. Then Jeff Monson was thrown in the pokey for grandfather clock abuse. Then War Machine got himself placed under citizen’s arrest at the gay club where he works. (Man, that gets funnier every time we write it.) And now it’s Kimo Leopoldo, the UFC old-timer and dark-horse candidate for CSAC executive officer. If you guessed “drug-related,” congratulations, you are smarter than a fifth grader. TMZ, as usual, breaks it:

He’s kicked the crap out of all sorts of UFC fighters, but now Kimo Leopoldo is battling a serious drug charge.

TMZ has learned the famously tatted MMA badboy was arrested by Tustin police Monday afternoon after they spotted the 6’3″, 235 lb fighter wearing a Long Beach Police Dept. jumpsuit, complete with patches and a cloth badge — a badge only cops are allowed to wear. The officers — the real officers — then searched Kimo’s ride, where they claim to have found “a small amount of what is believed to be meth.”

Kimo, who famously lost to Royce Gracie in UFC 3, was charged with possession of a controlled substance and is still in police custody. Cops say there will also be an investigation into where the 41-year-old got his hands on the LBPD gear.

Well, clearly the police uniform was part of an “Officer Friendly”-style youth mentoring effort, and Kimo simply wasn’t aware that impersonating an officer is against the law, and the small amount of methamphetamine was a visual aid to show the kids what they absolutely should not be smoking or injecting, and the whole thing is nothing more than a set-up by corrupt ex-CSAC boss Armando Garcia. (I mean, what else would Leopoldo be doing with the LBPD jumpsuit? Carrying out false arrests on Long Beach drug pushers so he could confiscate their stashes for his own personal use? Ha ha, be serious now.)

Anyway, we hope this is all cleared up soon because a drug conviction could seriously affect Kimo’s high school speaking tour. Though we’d definitely still back him for executive officer of the California State Athletic Commission. After all, who do you want in charge of testing and punishing fighters for abuse of illegal substances? Some pencil-pushing namby-pamby who’s never used steroids or bought crystal meth in his life? Or an unstable drug addict with “Jesus” tattooed on his stomach who actually knows what the hell he’s talking about?