Darius McCrary was arrested close to the U.S.-Mexico border over a Michigan baby assist warrant and is being held with out bail forward of an October 15 court docket look.

Darius McCrary was taken into custody close to the U.S.-Mexico border on October 5 after authorities found a felony warrant out of Michigan tied to unpaid baby assist.

The actor, who performed Eddie Winslow on the long-running sitcom, was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol brokers at 7:17 p.m. Sunday (October 5) and booked right into a San Diego jail with out bail, based on jail data. The warrant was issued after McCrary allegedly missed a court docket listening to associated to his ongoing failure to pay baby assist.

A consultant for McCrary mentioned the warrant was out of Michigan attributable to a missed court docket look concerning his failure to pay baby assist.

His arrest is listed as a “fugitive arrest” in official reserving paperwork. McCrary, 49, is predicted to look in court docket on Wednesday, October 15.

This is just not the primary time McCrary has been in authorized bother over baby assist. According to People, this marks his third arrest associated to the problem since 2015. The fees stem from a chronic and contentious divorce from his ex-wife, Tammy Brawner, a former Harlem Globetrotter.

When their cut up was finalized in February 2019, McCrary was ordered to pay $1,366 monthly in assist for his or her daughter Zoey. That quantity included $916 in base assist and a further $415 for childcare bills. At the time, Brawner was granted full authorized and bodily custody of their daughter, who was 3 years previous.

The court docket additionally mandated that McCrary full alcohol and drug abuse therapy together with a batterer’s intervention program.

In 2018, court docket filings accused McCrary of injuring his daughter throughout a go to, claiming he “partially dislocated” her arm. He denied the declare, stating he was merely serving to her to the toilet.

McCrary rose to fame within the late Nineteen Eighties and Nineteen Nineties for his function on Family Matters, which aired from 1989 to 1998 and likewise starred Reginald VelJohnson and Jo Marie Payton.

His earlier arrests for related fees occurred in 2015 and once more earlier in 2023. In the 2015 case, he was launched the identical day.

As of now, McCrary stays in custody awaiting his October 15 court docket date.

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