Texas men's basketball coach Chris Beard allegedly 'choked' fiancée during physical altercation: report

New details surrounding the arrest of Texas men’s basketball coach Chris Beard have emerged that reveal the second-year Longhorns coach was arrested early Monday morning following a physical altercation with his fiancée in which he allegedly "choked" the woman, according to court documents. 

Beard, 49, was arrested Monday and charged with assault on a family/household member impeding breath circulation, a third-degree felony, after Austin Police received a 911 call for a disturbance just after midnight.

Court records obtained by KXAN revealed that a woman, identified as Beard’s fiancée, told police that she and Beard had been dealing with relationship issues when a verbal argument ensued after she took his reading glasses and broke them.

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She told police "he just snapped on me and became super violent," adding that Beard "choked me, threw me off the bed, bit me, bruises all over my leg, throwing me around, and going nuts," according to a court affidavit. 

The woman also told law enforcement that she could not breathe after Beard allegedly put his arm across her neck while behind her. The affidavit described her injuries as a bite mark on her arm, a cut to her face and thumb and a scrape on her leg, which she attributed to Beard. 

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Beard reportedly told police that he had audio recordings proving he wasn’t the "primary aggressor" but declined to provide them when asked, according to KXAN.

The University of Texas announced late Tuesday that Beard had been suspended without pay following his arrest. 

"The University takes matters of interpersonal violence involving members of its community seriously. Given the information available, The University has suspended Chris Beard from his position as head coach of Men’s Basketball and will withhold his pay until further notice," the school said in a statement, via ESPN. 

Beard was released from the Travis County Jail on Monday afternoon. His attorney denied the charges in a statement to the Austin American-Statesman.

"Coach Beard is 100% innocent of these charges. He should never have been arrested. The complainant wants him released immediately and all charges dismissed. It is truly inconceivable."

NBC News refuses to provide transparency on retracted Paul Pelosi report, Miguel Almaguer’s absence

NBC News refuses to provide transparency to the strange situation surrounding correspondent Miguel Almaguer, who returned to the air Monday after a mysterious multi-week absence following the retraction of his explosive Paul Pelosi report.

NBC News has not responded to a series of questions, including why the Pelosi report was retracted, beyond a vague note that it didn't meet network standards, and why Almaguer was sidelined for so long.

Almaguer sent social media into a tizzy on Nov. 4 with a bombshell report that indicated Pelosi might not have been in immediate danger when police arrived the night he was assaulted in the San Francisco home he shares with his wife, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. 

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Almaguer went against the mainstream narrative and reported Paul Pelosi opened the door himself but didn’t attempt to escape or declare an emergency before walking away from cops and back toward his eventual attacker. 

DePape is accused of demanding to know the House speaker’s whereabouts and threatening to break her kneecaps with a hammer, but he didn’t attack Paul Pelosi until the police arrived at the home. Almaguer also put a spotlight on what Pelosi and David DePape were doing for roughly 30 minutes before police arrived, which nobody seems to know. 

Almaguer’s report seemed to coincide with theories that key details are being withheld from the public. The situation continued to raise eyebrows when NBC News retracted the shocking report hours after it aired, scrubbing it from the internet in the process. 

Almaguer was then missing from the network for more than five weeks, reportedly suspended pending an internal probe, although NBC News never publicly admitted the longtime correspondent was actually in hot water. An NBC News source previously told Fox News Digital that Almaguer’s source was "biased." Another insider said the news division was furious the story made it to air and that more heads could roll in the future. 

To further complicate things, a local NBC affiliate in San Francisco reported essentially the same information as Almaguer but didn’t have it retracted. "I think they had different sources," an NBC Bay Area source told Fox News Digital at the time. 

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Almaguer did not respond to a request for comment and his agent has declined to speak "on client matters." 

Almaguer returned on Monday, reporting on "coast-to-coast" winter storms across the United States, but NBC News didn’t acknowledge his extended benching. The Los Angeles-based correspondent has also returned to tweeting on Monday after ignoring the platform since the day before his Pelosi report was scrubbed. 

NBC insider and media watchdogs alike have called for transparency, with hopes of learning the truth about why the network retracted the report, but the Comcast-owned organization appears to be keeping a lid on the details. 

Last week, NBC changed another report that initially went against the established media narrative. NBC News published a report that suggested President Biden could have received Paul Whelan, instead of WNBA star Brittney Griner, in the White House’s controversial prisoner swap. 

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Griner was freed from Russian detention on Thursday in a high-profile prisoner exchange with Russia, who got back notorious arms dealer Viktor Bout, known as the "Merchant of Death." When NBC News covered the story, it indicated Biden had the option to instead bring home Whelan, a former U.S. Marine who has been in Russian custody for nearly four years.

NBC reported that "the Kremlin gave the White House the choice of either Griner or Whelan — or none." Later, the article was edited to read, "The Kremlin ultimately gave the White House the choice of Griner or no one after different options were proposed."

A correction was added, noting that "an earlier version of this article misstated the choice the Biden administration was given over hostages. It was to swap for Griner or no one, not a choice between Griner or Whelan."

Fox News’ David Rutz contributed to this report.Â