Former Bears defensive end Robert Quinn was arrested Friday in his home state of South Carolina, the second time he has been in legal trouble since leaving the NFL.
Police charged Quinn, 34, with reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage in North Charleston, S.C., according to court records.
The booking photo from the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office showed Quinn had multiple facial injuries.
A police report obtained by local TV station Fox 4 indicated police responded to a call Friday around 2 a.m. from a car dealership reporting a collision. Police reported Quinn had facial injuries, slurred speech and was uncooperative when officers asked for his driver’s license.
The report said Quinn was in the passenger seat of a white Dodge Challenger that had its reverse lights on when the police arrived. The driver of that car told officers, per the report, that Quinn called her to pick him up. The woman told officers she met Quinn that night at a gentleman’s club where she worked.
Police said a maroon Ford F-150 registered to Quinn was nearby and had visible damage.
The report said Quinn’s F-150 hit the passenger side of a Honda Element, which was knocked into a blue Ford F-150, which crashed into another vehicle. That belief was based on city cameras to determine the sequence of the collisions, though police said the camera did not show the first collision but there was audio of it. Video showed Quinn’s truck driving around that time, crossing an intersection, a media and then driving onto the car dealership’s lot.
Quinn signed a five-year, $70 million deal with the Bears and played for them 2020 through ’22 before they traded him to the Eagles. He set the team’s single-season sack record with 18 1/2 in 2021. He has not played in the NFL since 2022.
Quinn also was arrested in 2023 in Summerville, S.C., and charged with third-degree assault and battery, hit-and-run of an attended vehicle and four counts of hit-and-run property damage.