L.A. Lakers forward
Matt Barnes was arrested Wednesday for suspicion of domestic violence. Sacramento County authorities responded to an incomplete 911 call from a woman placed at around 4:16 p.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they found Barnes and an unidentified woman both with visible bruises.
Police wound up arresting Barnes and not the woman because he had apparently been the aggressor of the two. The woman, who is still unidentified, is apparently someone whom Barnes had been living with in the home. When the woman placed the emergency call to police, she had been prevented from speaking further with the 911 dispatcher. The operator testified to police that they had heard an apparent struggle in the background over the line before the call was abruptly disconnected.
Barnes was booked on felony domestic violence and malicious obstruction of the use of a phone line charges. The 30-year-old baller posted a $50,000 bond and was released shortly before 9:40 p.m. He is scheduled to appear in court on Monday.
Barnes became more widely known when he and his former fiancee Gloria Govan appeared in the VH-1 reality show "Basketball Wives." Watch "Basketball Wives" costars talk about Gloria here:
Govan was not named as the unidentified woman.
Govan and Barnes were the only couple on the show to have a united front and their relationship seemed indestructible. They had an August 21st, Santa Barbara, California wedding with 200 people who would be in attendance, but 48 hours after Govan mailed out the invitations, the nuptials were off. The Mother of Barnes' twin toddler boys actually sent out a text alerting the invitees that there would be no wedding.
Govan, whom many viewers of the show thought to be holier-than-thou and above any relationship stresses, has said that her engagement did not end because of "infidelity or window-smashing, nothing of the sort."
Meanwhile, Barnes sent out a tweet a few hours after his release on his Twitter account regarding the domestic violence incident:
"DON'T LET YOUR EARS WITNESS, WHAT YOUR EYES DIDN'T SEE!!!"
'Nough said....
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