‘Ugly Betty’ actor Eric Mabius arrested for battery of a woman

Ugly Betty star Eric Mabius has been arrested for battery and resisting arrest without violence in Florida, with a mugshot of the actor circulating online.

According to reports by TMZ, Mabius was arrested at a bar in Yulee, Florida at around 2am PT yesterday morning (February 20).

The arrest came after Nassau County sheriff’s department responded to a call about a fight at the bar. The sheriff’s deputy reportedly said an “extremely intoxicated” woman was being “obnoxious” and removed from the bar when she “spat on several people”.

Mabius then allegedly “pushed her and another woman to the ground”, before he “got on top of this second woman and pulled her hair, allegedly ripping a handful from her scalp”.

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