Former Chicago Bear Helped Run Juvie Fight Club

A former Chicago Bears offensive lineman was one of four men accused of running a juvie fight club in St. Charles.

Johan O. Asiata, of Channahon, was charged with three other guards at the Illinois Youth Center in St. Charles after a Kane County grand jury indicted them for encouraging juvenile residents to attack each other as a form of discipline. Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon said the guards also facilitated the attacks and stood idly by during them.

According to The Daily Beast, the Bears signed Asiata as an undrafted free agent in 2009 and was released two years later. He told the Chicago Tribune that he joined football so he could hit people.

“I just like to play. I just like to hit. That's why I joined football, so I can hit people for fun."

Asiata also told the Chicago Sun-Times that he likes to hit people and that he doesn’t get arrested for hitting people.

Asiata was charged with five counts of official misconduct, two counts of aggravated battery and one count of unlawful restraint.

According to the indictment, he knowingly committed battery on public property, intentionally failed to report the commission of a battery as required by law, failed to report a threat to the safety of a resident as required by law, knowingly allowed juvenile residents to rough house and horseplay, which is forbidden by law, knowingly struck victims about the body and knowingly brought contraband onto the youth center property.