INGLEWOOD, CA—Domestic abuse is bad, and it is too often fueled by alcohol and a feeling of inferiority driven by impotence—or so some social scientists say.
Christopher Mahari Garth, 37, was arrested by Inglewood police officers (IPD) on Friday, January 30 at approximately 12:30 a.m. near the corner of East Hardy Street and South Osage Avenue in Inglewood. He was stopped one block west of where a new 80,000-seat sports stadium is being planned to be built by St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke and Hollywood Park Land Company. His arrest was just 36 hours before Super Bowl XLIX was to take place on Sunday.
The Inglewood resident, a laborer, was charged with battery of a spouse/ex-spouse/fiance/person dating (243(E)(1)PC), disorderly conduct: alcohol (647(F)PCALC) and inflicting corporal injury (273.5(A)PC). Police reports also stated that he had two warrants: one with Hawthorne PD for burglary (459PC) and one from the arresting agency, IPD, for a prior disorderly conduct: alcohol violation.
The total bail for the three new charges were set at $70,250. The bail for the two warrants clocked in at $52,500.
If Garth is a football fan, the first punitive step may have been missing the big game on TV while he sat in jail for the weekend.
