ESPN Personality Mariotti Arrested
ESPN personality and AOL sports columnist Jay Mariotti has been arrested on a felony charge in Los Angeles.
Officer Norma Eisenman says the 51-year-old Mariotti was arrested early Saturday in the police department's Pacific Division following a ``domestic incident.'' Eisenman declined to provide further details.
The Sheriff's Department website confirms Mariotti was booked on an undisclosed felony charge at 5:45 a.m. He was released on $50,000 bail just after noon Saturday.
Mariotti lives in Los Angeles. He is a panelist on the ESPN show ``Around the Horn'' and writes a regular column for the sports website Fanhouse.com, which is owned by AOL. He was a longtime columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz declined comment. Calls to AOL were not immediately returned.
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