Poirier (30-10) was recently arrested at the Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport after threatening to fight a police
officer and being denied permission to board a flight. He was
admittedly drunk when he approached the airport desk. The former

Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight believes the desk
agents denied him entry and called the police after seeing him
intoxicated.

Dustin Poirier's airport arrest and apology to the police
officer involved

Poirier recently issued an apology to the desk agents with whom he
got into an altercation. “The Diamond†has also asked his lawyer to
acquire the contact details of the police officer he threatened to
fight and called a racial slur.

Poirier now wants to contact the officer to let him know what a
great job he did. He admits that things could have taken a turn for
the worse if it hadn't been for the police officer's
professionalism. The former interim lightweight champion said on
“The Diary of a CEO†podcast:

“The desk agent might have seen I was intoxicated. It was like,
‘Nah, you can't get on this plane.' That might have what started
it. But I do want to apologize to those desk agents, whoever they
are. And the police, for having to put up with me. I actually asked
a lawyer in Atlanta that I've been working with if he can please
give me that officer's information, his address. I want to write
him a letter. His cell phone, if I can call him, just to tell him
how great of a job he did dealing with a person in that condition,
how professional he was. He's incredible… it could have been so
much worse.â€