Los Angeles police officer says Mariotti was arrested early Saturday following a "domestic incident." Officer declined to provide further details. Mariotti was released on $50,000 bail.
Jay Mariotti in a 2002 photo.LOS ANGELES — ESPN personality and AOL sports columnist Jay Mariotti has been arrested on a felony charge in Los Angeles.
Officer Norma Eisenman says the 51-year-old Mariotti was arrested early Saturday in the police department's Pacific Division following a "domestic incident." Eisenman declined to provide further details.
The Sheriff's Department website confirms Mariotti was booked on an undisclosed felony charge at 5:45 a.m. He was released on $50,000 bail just after noon Saturday.
Mariotti lives in Los Angeles. He is a panelist on the ESPN show "Around the Horn" and writes a regular column for the sports website FanHouse.com, which is owned by AOL.
He was a longtime columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times.
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz declined comment. Calls to AOL were not immediately returned.
(ESPN.com report on Mariotti's arrest)