In 2006, at the age of 15, he was sentenced to 11 weeks in a young offenders institute after being convicted of participating in a series of armed mugging incidents in Muswell Hill, London.
On 27 August 2011 he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a man in Newcastle city centre leaving the
victim unconscious in the street. [12]
In October 2011 he was charged with being drunk and disorderly in Newcastle's Cathedral Square. The charge came only days after Ranger had been reinstated to Newcastle United's first-team training after a three-
month exile in the club's reserves. [13] In March 2012 he was convicted of being drunk and disorderly and was given a six-month conditional discharge and ordered to
pay £135 costs. [14] Prior to this, in May 2011 Ranger was questioned by Newcastle after posing with a replica
gun in a photograph. [15] The gun was later handed
in. [16]
In March 2012, he was fined by The FA for making homophobic comments on social networking website
Twitter. [17] Later in the month he was arrested once more, this time for breaching terms of his bail whilst
awaiting trial on four assault charges.
