The former Navy SEAL of the US who claimed to have killed Osama bin Laden in the 2011 Abbottabad operation has been arrested in Texas, The New York Post reported.

He had been in Dallas to record a podcast at a cigar lounge. Robert O’Neill, 47, was booked at a jail in Frisco and released later that day on a $3,500 bond.

He was charged with a Class A misdemeanour of assault causing bodily injury and a Class C misdemeanour charge of public intoxication.

O’Neill was a member of SEAL Team 6 during the 2011 mission in Abbottabad city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and claimed that he had fired the shots that killed Bin Ladin.

In 2016, the former Navy SEAL was arrested in Montana after police suspected him of driving under the influence as they found him asleep in the driver’s seat of a vehicle with the engine still running.

He was charged with negligent endangerment and the prosecution was deferred while he underwent treatment.

O’Neill was banned from flying on Delta Air Lines after he posted a photo of himself without a mask when it was still required because of Covid-19.

He first made his claim that he was the person who killed Osama bin Laden in a 2014 interview with The Washington Post. The US government has never confirmed nor denied his claim, while the reality remains cloudy owing to different accounts of the operation.