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Former National Football League player Richie Incognito reportedly threatened to shoot employees of a Scottsdale mortuary, punched caskets and asked workers to decapitate his father for research purposes, according to a police report detailing his arrest Monday in Scottsdale.
Incognito has since been released from jail, where he was booked on suspicion of one count of threats or intimidation with injury and one count of disorderly conduct and disruptive behavior, police said.
Incognito did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Scottsdale Police were called at around 3:30 p.m., Monday to the Messinger Pinnacle Peak Mortuary, 8555 E. Pinnacle Peak Road, on reports of disorderly conduct. Officers were told that Incognito, whose father had just died Sunday, was upset with staff and was damaging property inside the business while shouting at employees, the report said.
An employee at the mortuary said Incognito’s family had advised him that Incognito was not going to be allowed to attend his father’s funeral and that he had been acting erratically, according to the report.
Incognito was supposed to sign the cremation paperwork with his brother, but an employee was told Incognito refused, police said.
After Incognito walked into the mortuary’s lobby, the employee saw Incognito talking with his co-worker about a “lot of random things that didn’t make sense,” including that Incognito said he “wanted them to cut his dad’s head off for research purposes,” the report said.
When the employee introduced himself, Incognito pulled him forward and chest-bumped him, the report said.
Incognito then walked around the funeral home, punching caskets and throwing things before going into the employee’s office, grabbing a chair and sitting down, records show.
Incognito said he wanted to buy flowers for the funeral and said he would buy everything they had, throwing them his credit card.
After signing the cremation paperwork, Incognito changed his mind, saying he wanted his dad buried and wanted to look at caskets.
Incognito then started crying and said he wanted to see his dad, the report said.
The employee later told police that he thought Incognito was going to kill him, Scottsdale police said.
During the incident, after the co-worker had gone down to the prep room and another employee had called 911, Incognito used one hand to make the shape of a gun, pointing it at the employee and told him he had a truck full of guns, records show.
When Incognito left to go to his truck, the employee joined his co-worker in the prep room, thinking it would be safer.
They wanted to stay in the secure room, but realized there were still employees upstairs. They looked at each other and said, “If it’s going to happen, we’re doing it together,” and they went back upstairs, according to the police report.
They returned to the lobby to be met by Incognito, who had brought a box full of his dad`s property and had begun laying the property across a table.
Police arrived shortly afterward, taking Incognito into custody and obtained a search warrant.
According to a Scottsdale police report, officers found in Incognito’s truck a handgun silencer; a Glock 17 9 mm handgun; a Glock 35 .40-caliber handgun; three rifles; and four handgun magazines.
While speaking with police, Incognito demonstrated “erratic noncoherent behavior,” and while he was compliant, he was confrontational, the report said.
The former Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins offensive lineman has had a series of troubles, and this incident marks the second time he has been arrested since the Bills released him this spring.
In May, Incognito was taken into custody for psychiatric examination after an incident at a Florida gym. Police officers were called after Incognito was involved in a disturbance. A gym patron said Incognito threw a tennis ball and a dumbbell at him, then screamed for him to get out of the gym.
The NFL suspended Incognito for the final half of the 2013 season for his part in the bullying of a Miami Dolphins teammate, and he was eventually released by Miami before being reinstated by the league the following offseason.
The Republic’s Uriel J. Garcia contributed to this story.
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