'Buffy' Star Arrested for Assault

Nicholas Brendon, who played Xander on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, has reportedly been arrested in California after allegedly attacking his girlfriend in a hotel room. Brendon has been arrested under similar charges before, and he has two protection orders against him stemming from past incidents. He has also been undergoing well-publicized rehab treatment for substance abuse and depression.

Via Us Weekly.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer alum Nicholas Brendon is reportedly facing charges after he allegedly attacked his girlfriend in a hotel room.

“[Brendon] was with his girlfriend and they got into an argument,” Palm Springs Police Sgt. William Hutchinson told KESQ-TV. “During the argument at the bar, he pulled her arm and then violently pulled her by her hair.”

Brendon also has two active protection orders (one in Florida and another in New York) filed against him by his girlfriend, KESQ reports.

While neither prohibit Brendon from seeing her, he is not allowed to harass, threaten, injure or assault her. The network adds that the actor was arrested for a violation of a protective order and felony domestic violence.

Brendon has faced similar charges in the past. In 2015, the Criminal Minds actor pleaded guilty to criminal mischief after he allegedly grabbed his girlfriend by the throat and smashed her cell phone. Brendon entered rehab in June of that year for substance abuse, depression and alcoholism. Nearly four months later, he checked into a separate treatment program for depression.

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