VISTA -- Court documents filed a day before HBO boxing announcer Jim Lampley was arrested on suspicion of domestic violence allege that the 57-year-old veteran sports anchor abused his girlfriend on two prior occasions.
Candice Sanders obtained a temporary restraining order from the Superior Court in Vista against Lampley on Tuesday based on allegations that he threw her against two walls and a door during an incident New Year's Eve at her Encinitas apartment.
Sheriff's deputies arrested Lampley on Wednesday -- the day after the restraining order was issued against him -- on suspicion of domestic violence, violation of a restraining order and dissuading a witness. He reportedly was arrested at his girlfriend's Encinitas residence.
A hearing on the restraining order that had been scheduled for Thursday morning was postponed Thursday to Jan. 11. Lampley did not appear in court Thursday, court documents stated.
Sanders alleged in her request for a restraining order that Lampley and his son were watching a movie with her at the Encinitas apartment when Lampley's son went to bed. Lampley pulled Sanders from the sofa, but she wanted to finish watching the movie, Sanders alleged in the court documents.
Sanders alleged in the documents that Lampley chased her around the apartment, grabbed her and threw her against a wall, threw her against another wall, and threw her against a door before she collapsed.
Sanders went to a neighbor's apartment to call sheriff's deputies, who arrived after Lampley and his son had left, she alleged in the court documents.
"I am terrified that he will harm me unless he is restrained," Sanders wrote in the court documents.
Sanders alleged in the court documents that Lampley was drunk and "high on pot" the night of the incident.
Sanders also alleged that Lampley threw her down two months ago in a New York city restaurant, resulting in bruises from her neck to her tailbone that lasted for two weeks. Sanders alleged "the incident was kept quiet by his associates because he was to broadcast a major fight 2 days later."
Posted in News on Thursday, January 4, 2007 12:00 am Updated: 7:49 am.
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