Ex-Fox Anchor was arrested twice in one night, the police said

Frank Somerville has already been released from his post at the KTVU affiliated with Fox.


New presenters were make their own titles lately - and Frank Somerville , a former KTVU anchor affiliated with Fox in Oakland, California, is only the last to make waves. Somerville is not foreign to the spotlight, thanks to his conduct in 2021 under the burden of influence (DUI) and a viral clip of him by arousing his words during a television news. The ex-anchor Express About incidents and his battle against dependence less than three months ago, marking his first appearance on television from the Dui. But while he hoped for a second chance, the tides further withdrew, while the last series of events landed Somerville in prison twice in one night. Read the rest to find out more about the consecutive arrests of the old anchor.

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The first arrest followed a "family altercation".

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At 6:36 p.m. on Monday June 56, The police responded to a "family altercation" in a house in Berkeley, California, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing a press release from the Berkeley police.

According to the press release, Somerville had appeared at the home of his parents in a state of drunkenness. He would have been invited to leave by family members, and after threatening his 91 -year -old father, Somerville entered a physical fight With his younger brother, the police told the Berkeley scanner.

Somerville was arrested for suspicion of criminal threats, battery, public poisoning and probation violation, police said. He was taken to Berkeley prison and was then released. However, he was not out of care for a long time.

He was again arrested a few hours later.

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At 3:30 am on the morning of June 6, the police were recalled at the same home in Berkeley where Somerville was arrested for the first time. Speak L.A. Times , after Somerville's release from Berkeley prison, he returned to his parents to get his car. The former news presenter said he was also looking for his lost mobile phone. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Somerville continued to ring the door at home "in order to recover his property," the Berkeley police wrote in a prepared statement provided to the Berkeley scanner. Family members have again called the police.

Somerville was in his car when the police arrived, and he showed "objective signs and symptoms of public poisoning," said police.

Somerville was then arrested for an alleged dui and a violation of probation and taken to Santa Rita prison in Dublin, California. In a statement to the Berkeley scanner on Tuesday afternoon, Somerville said he "was not drunk", adding that the dispute was a "family affair".

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Somerville was suspended from KTVU in 2021.

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Somerville's public problems date back to May 2021 when it was Slugring in the air , Kron4 reported. The anchor said he had wrongly taken two ambien, a medication used to treat insomnia.

Somerville took leave in the next day, but according to the L.A. Times, He was officially suspended by KTVU in September 2021, after trying to add racial comments concerning the Gabby Petito case.

"I thought the coverage across the country of Gabby Petito was crazy," Somerville told Kron4 during his interview in March. "There was no reason except that she was a pretty white child. But for any reason, I was suspended on this subject. I am always, to date, I don't know why."

Things went further when Somerville was accused of a DUI in December 2021, and KTVU chose not to renew his contract. In December 2022 Facebook publication Somerville said the two events were not linked and that it was released due to "an accumulation of many different things, including serious mental health problems".

Somerville has also experienced difficulties in his personal life.

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Several media have also speculated on the impact of events in Somerville's personal life. On January 6, 2021, his wife, Donna Wright Somerville ,, asked for divorce - days after his dui, the New York Post reported.

However, in the file, it cited their date of separation as on June 19, 2020, due to "irreconcilable differences". The divorce was finalized on May 1 of this year.


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