Former Bears DE Robert Quinn arrested in South Carolina on charges of reckless driving, hit-and-run

Former Bears defensive end Robert Quinn, who holds the team’s single-season sack record, was arrested Friday in his home state of South Carolina. It’s the second time he has been in legal trouble since leaving the NFL.

Police in North Charleston arrested Quinn, 34, around 2 a.m. and charged him with reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage. He was booked in county jail around 7 a.m. and released in the afternoon with a court date of Feb. 27.

The police report indicated officers responded to a call at a car dealership reporting a collision. Police reported Quinn had facial injuries, slurred speech and was uncooperative when they asked for his driver’s license.

The report said Quinn was in the passenger seat of a white Dodge Challenger that had its reverse lights on when the police arrived. The woman driving that car told officers, per the report, that she met Quinn at a gentleman’s club where she worked, and he called her to pick him up.

Police said a maroon Ford F-150 registered to Quinn was nearby and had visible damage.

The report said officers used city cameras to determine that Quinn’s Ford F-150 hit the passenger side of a Honda Element, which was knocked into another F-150, which crashed into a Chrysler 300. Police said the cameras did not show the first collision, but there was audio of it. Video showed Quinn’s truck driving at that time, crossing an intersection, a median and then driving onto the car dealership’s property.

Quinn signed a five-year, $70 million deal with the Bears and played for them 2020 through ’22 before they traded him to the Eagles. He broke Richard Dent’s sack record with 18 1/2 in 2021 and hasn’t played in the NFL since 2022.

Quinn also was arrested in 2023 in Summerville, S.C., and charged with third-degree assault and battery, hit-and-run of an attended vehicle and four counts of hit-and-run property damage. Those charges either were continued or are pending, per court records.