Mike Tyson Arrested After Allegedly Punching Photographer at LAX

11 November 2009 8:50 PM, PST | PEOPLE.com | See recent PEOPLE.com news »

Mike Tyson and a photographer made citizen's arrests on one another after getting into a scuffle Wednesday at Los Angeles International Airport, police say. At 4:30 p.m., the former boxing champ, 43, was passing through Lax from Europe en route to Las Vegas when a celebrity photographer began taking his picture at the United Airlines terminal, Sgt. Jim Holcomb tells People. "The two men got into a scuffle, and it's alleged that Tyson hit the photographer once in the face with one hand, causing him to fall to the ground," Holcomb says. "The photographer sustained a laceration to the forehead, …

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