Who Is Melvin Townsend III And What Are His Criminal Records? The Man Mike Tyson Punched On The Plane

According to TMZ, the man who was punched by Mike Tyson on a JetBlue flight has a lengthy criminal record.

Melvin Townsend, III is his name, and this isn’t his first encounter with cops. He’s been convicted of fraud, grand theft, burglary, drug possession, and trafficking in stolen property.

In terms of specifics, the 36-year-old broke into a house in 2018 and stole a trailer, which he hitched to his pickup. Oxycodone was the drug in question.

Other specifics are not mentioned in the official documentation. He served time in prison twice, once for 20 months and once for 15 months. Townsend appears to have harassed Tyson after they boarded the flight from San Francisco to Miami on Wednesday, April 2022

Townsend, who was sitting behind Tyson on the plane, was hounding him before takeoff. According to Mike’s team, Townsend threw a water bottle at him.

The boxing champion then snapped and unleashed a barrage of punches on him, leaving him bloodied. Both men were met by cops as they stepped off the plane. Townsend stated that he did not intend to press charges and that they were both free to leave.