90 Day Fiancé: Why Ben Blaming A Homeless Couple For His Arrest Is Odd

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90 Day Fiancé star Benjamin Rathbun is being slammed by fans for claiming that helping a homeless couple caused his September 2020 arrest. 52-year-old Ben visited 22-year-old Mahogany Roca in Peru in 90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days. to see her in person after chatting online for three months. Ben was thrilled to find out that Mahogany wasn’t a catfish, but fans couldn’t get past him wanting to make a woman the age of his daughter his wife. Given his problematic thinking, and behavior that some viewers considered creepy, people weren't surprised when they read news about Ben being arrested. He was fired from his job recently, and now says his 2020 arrest happened because a homeless couple drugged him.

After news of Ben’s termination from his Director job at the Michigan Lupus Foundation became public, he spoke about why he doesn’t blame the foundation for letting him go. Ben admitted that he hid the details of the crime he committed from his family and workplace. His arrest in March stemmed from a probation violation related to his arrest in September 2020. Back then, Ben was charged with one count of OWAI (operating while ability impaired) and one count of driving while license suspended/revoked/denied. Reality TV star Ben was sentenced to 18 months of probation in January 2021.

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While giving InTouch details about his firing and arrest, Ben recalled that his initial crime occurred after he visited a homeless couple living at a Red Roof Inn and attempted to help them. The couple offered 90 Day Fiancé star Ben “a little plastic cup of wine” which he "stupidly accepted." When he left the place, he stopped at a hotel for a night and “completely