Beyond Meat COO Doug Ramsey arrested for allegedly biting man's nose after Arkansas college football game

Beyond Meat Chief Operating Officer Doug Ramsey was arrested this play aft allegedly biting a man's chemoreceptor successful an Arkansas parking store pursuing a assemblage shot game.

Ramsey, 53, was charged with terroristic threatening and third-degree artillery and booked successful the Washington County, Arkansas, jailhouse connected Saturday evening. He was released Sunday, according to the Washington County information page.

Ramsey and Beyond Meat did not instantly respond to requests for remark from CNBC.

The altercation happened successful a parking store adjacent Razorback Stadium successful Fayetteville aft a University of Arkansas shot game, according to a preliminary constabulary report. Local tv presumption KNWA/Fox24 archetypal reported Ramsey's arrest.

Ramsey allegedly punched done the backmost windshield of a Subaru aft it made interaction with the beforehand tyre of Ramsey's car. The Subaru proprietor past got retired of his car, and Ramsey allegedly started punching him and spot his nose, "ripping the soma connected the extremity of the nose," according to the report. The unfortunate and a witnesser besides alleged that Ramsey told the Subaru proprietor helium would termination him.

Campus constabulary declined to remark to CNBC, citing an ongoing investigation.

Ramsey has been the operating main of Beyond Meat since December. The nutrient institution has been facing skepticism from investors implicit disappointing sales, operating challenges and its semipermanent maturation prospects. The banal has fallen 73% this year, dragging its marketplace headdress down to $1.09 billion. Just 3 years ago, the institution was valued astatine $13.4 billion.

Before joining the shaper of nutrient alternatives, Ramsey spent 3 decades astatine Tyson Foods, overseeing its poultry and McDonald's businesses. Tyson's office are successful Springdale, Arkansas.