Stacey Dash was arrested for domestic battery after an incident on the night of Sept. 29 in New Port Richey, Florida, according to the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office.
The “Clueless” actress was taken into custody after an argument with a male, whose name was redacted in an incident report obtained by CNN. She is accused of pushing and slapping him.
The report states that police were called to a home Sunday evening “to respond to a domestic dispute” between the two.
“The victim sustained red scratch marks to his upper left arm from being pushed,” the report states.
The man was reportedly her new husband, Jeffrey Marty, according to TMZ.
A source also told TMZ that Dash allegedly acted in self-defense, saying that Marty had allegedly attempted to choke her first.
Dash was taken into custody and transported to the Land O’ Lakes detention facility without incident. She posted bail and was released on Monday morning, according to a spokesperson for the Pasco County Sheriff.
Body camera footage shows an officer attempted to talk to Dash, asking her about her job. She mentioned that she was an actress in “Clueless” and was also a political correspondent.
Dash had worked for Fox News since 2014, but she left the network in 2017.
Dash, 52, has worked as a conservative pundit and continued to appear in film and TV projects in recent years.
Dash and Marty got married last spring during a secret wedding in Florida. It’s Dash’s fourth marriage, according to the New York Post’s Page Six.
Facts About Crime in the United States
Violent crime in the United States has fallen sharply over the past 25 years, according to both the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (pdf).
The rate of violent crimes fell by 49 percent between 1993 and 2017, according to the FBI’s UCR, which only reflects crimes reported to the police.
The violent crime rate dropped by 74 percent between 1993 and 2017, according to the BJS’s NCVS, which takes into account both crimes that have been reported to the police and those that have not.
The FBI recently released preliminary data for 2018. According to the Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January to June 2018, violent crime rates in the United States dropped by 4.3 percent compared to the same six-month period in 2017.
While the overall rate of violent crime has seen a steady downward drop since its peak in the 1990s, there have been several upticks that bucked the trend. Between 2014 and 2016, the murder rate increased by more than 20 percent, to 5.4 per 100,000 residents, from 4.4, according to an Epoch Times analysis of FBI data. The last two-year period that the rate soared so quickly was between 1966 and 1968.
Epoch Times reporter Jack Phillips contributed to this report.
