#8 - Adrienne Alvarez
On the morning of August the 1st of 2013, Doña Ana County police received a call about a domestic
dispute at a home in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The officers sent to investigate determined that
Adrienne Alvarez, aged 28, had been involved in a physical altercation with her husband,
Hazael. She’d allegedly acted as the primary aggressor in the row. The woman had risen to
local prominence as an accomplished journalist and anchor for the NBC affiliate station
KTSM in El Paso, Texas. She’d won multiple awards for her reporting, including an Emmy in 2009.
Following the incident in question, Alvarez was taken into police custody and booked into the
county detention center. She was later released on $1,000 bail. In the immediate aftermath of
Alvarez’s arrest, the general manager of KTSM released a statement confirming that he was
aware of the anchor’s situation but claimed that he’d wait for more details before making
any further comments. The El Paso ABC affiliate, KVIA, became the subject of criticism in relation
to their coverage of Alvarez’s arrest. The rival station reportedly sent a news crew to the
anchor’s house in an attempt to get a statement from her regarding the domestic violence incident.
A writer for the El Paso Times questioned whether KVIA had been too aggressive in its reporting of
the situation, and many viewers expressed their disapproval of the station’s coverage on social
media. In January of 2015, Alvarez publicly stated that she was no longer working for KTSM.
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#7 - Felicia Taylor
The former host of the CNN International program World Business Today was arrested, in September
of 2015, after she’d side-swiped a parked car in Southampton, New York, while under the influence
of alcohol. The accident reportedly occurred in the village of Sag Harbor, during the late
afternoon of September the 4th. The officers who’d arrived at the scene noted that the vehicle’s
driver, 51-year-old Felicia Taylor, appeared to be acutely intoxicated. She was consequently taken to
a nearby hospital to undergo a medical evaluation. A report by the New York Post later detailed how
Taylor’s blood alcohol level had allegedly been three times the legal driving limit at
the time of the incident. She was arrested at the hospital and charged with aggravated DWI.
#6 - Omar Jimenez On May the 29th of 2020, CNN news correspondent
Omar Jimenez was arrested while reporting on the protests organized in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Shortly after 5 am, a pair of Minnesota state police officers approached Jimenez and his
three-person news crew while they were reporting live on the New Day morning news program.
The officers reportedly requested that the crew move back from the place where they’d been set up.
Jimenez agreed to do so and asked what other spot would be more suitable, but the officers walked
away before giving an answer. A few minutes later, as Jimenez continued to report from the same area,
a group of police officers surrounded him and his crew and took them into custody. They were
detained at a local precinct, for about an hour, at which point they were verified as members of
the media and granted release. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz issued a formal apology
to Jimenez and CNN for what he described as an “unacceptable” mistake on the police’s part.
#5 - Bree Walker In the early morning hours of February the 19th
of 2014, veteran TV news anchor Bree Walker was arrested in Orange County, California,
on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. The former CBS reporter had previously
risen to national recognition after becoming the first on-air television news anchor in the US with
ectrodactyly. The rare genetic condition causes one’s fingers and toes to be fused together.
Over the course of her career, Walker worked as a radio host and TV reporter for various news
stations in San Diego, Los Angeles, and New York. The 61-year-old had been pulled over by police on
the night of her arrest after she’d failed to stop at a red light. The officers at the scene
described Walker as appearing disheveled and smelling strongly of alcohol. The former news
anchor failed a field sobriety test, refused to submit to a breathalyzer, and was allegedly
unable to provide the officers with a valid driver’s license. She was consequently charged
with a misdemeanor DUI before being released from custody a few hours later. Walker had reportedly
checked herself into a rehabilitation facility for alcohol abuse in February of 2007. After roughly
5 years of sobriety, she allegedly began drinking again in December of 2012, according to witnesses
who’d spotted her at the Roosterfish bar, which was located near her home in Venice, California.
#4 - Chris Nakamoto On March the 23rd of 2016,
a news reporter was handcuffed and detained by police in the small town of White Castle,
Louisiana. Subsequent reports indicated that Chris Nakamoto, the chief investigative journalist for
the local ABC affiliate WBRZ, had visited City Hall to follow up on a public records request he’d
made earlier in the week. Nakamoto had reportedly been investigating an unexplained pay raise
that had recently been given to the town’s mayor, but not all of the documents he’d requested
were provided to him. After a town official had refused to oblige the reporter’s request for the
missing records, a White Castle police officer stationed at City Hall reportedly asked him to
leave the building. Nakamoto claimed he was under no obligation to conform to the officer’s orders,
as he was in a public area and hadn’t done anything illegal. At that point, the officer
put the reporter in handcuffs and escorted him out of the building. He was subsequently taken to
the local police station and issued a misdemeanor summons for trespassing. Nakamoto’s boss defended
his actions and said that he’d been doing his job in trying to hold public officials accountable.
The case against him was ultimately dropped by the town’s attorney, Valencia Vessel-Landry,
three weeks after the reporter’s initial arrest. #3 - Arnab Goswami
An Indian news reporter was forcefully taken into police custody outside his Mumbai home, on
November the 4th of 2020. The arrest of Republic TV founder and nightly news anchor Arnab Goswami
reportedly stemmed from his alleged involvement in the death of an interior decorator named Anvay
Naik. The authorities had concluded, in 2018, that Naik had taken his own life. In a death note
later found by the police, however, he’d written that the decision to end his life was a direct
consequence of Goswami and two other unidentified individuals owing him a considerable sum of money
which they’d refused to pay him. Goswami, whose ardent support of Indian Prime Minister
Narendra Modi had made him a polarizing media figure, alleged that law enforcement officials
had physically assaulted him as they were taking him into custody. Multiple senior leaders of the
Prime Minister’s Bharatiya Janata Party publicly condemned the police’s treatment of Goswami
in the wake of his arrest. On the day of the firebrand reporter’s detention, party workers
gathered in Mumbai to protest the police. Many of the activists were arrested themselves after
law enforcement had intervened to break up the demonstrations. The Supreme Court of India granted
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comments section below. #2 - Danielle Miskell
Shortly before 10 pm, on May the 13th of 2021, police officers in Waterloo, Iowa, were dispatched
to an apartment building after receiving reports of a domestic disturbance. Upon their arrival,
they discovered that 34-year-old Danielle Miskell, a weekend news reporter for KWWL-TV,
had been involved in a physical altercation with her boyfriend, William Mohr. A neighboring tenant
told the officers that they’d witnessed Mohr leave the apartment while holding an ice pack to his
face, which was noticeably swollen. It emerged that Miskell had punched and kicked the man
several times after the two had gotten into a heated argument earlier in the night. Iowa law
stipulates that, during a domestic violence call, the police must arrest one of the parties involved
if an injury has been inflicted. Miskell was thus taken into custody in spite of her claims that
she’d been acting in self-defense when she struck her boyfriend. She was charged with misdemeanor
domestic assault with injury. Following her arrest, Miskell filed a restraining order against
Mohr, alleging that he’d put her in a chokehold and slammed her body to the floor during the
incident in question. She was ultimately found not guilty of the assault charges in August of
2021. Miskell’s final television appearance for KWWL-TV occurred during the weekend,
immediately following the altercation. Once news of her arrest had been made public,
the station decided to take her off the air, but she reportedly remained under their employment.
Shortly thereafter, they parted ways with Miskell entirely, but maintained the separation had been
for reasons unrelated to her arrest. #1 - Farron Salley
The morning and weekend news anchor for West Palm Beach's Channel 25, in Florida,
was arrested for driving under the influence on December the 15th of 2018. After she’d been pulled
over by the police, 28-year-old Farron Salley was asked to take a field sobriety test, which she
reportedly failed. In the resulting arrest report, Cameron Carver, one of the officers at the scene,
claimed to have detected the smell of alcohol on the woman’s breath. He also noted that her eyes
were bloodshot and her pupils dilated. After failing the field test, Salley was taken into
custody and charged with a DUI. Court records detailed how she’d later told the officers at
the county jail that she suffered from borderline personality disorder and was taking medication
that she couldn’t identify. The Palm Beach County State Attorney ultimately dropped the charges
against the news anchor, stating that there wasn’t enough evidence to convict her. Following her
acquittal, Salley returned to work at Channel 25, after a two-month leave of absence. She publicly
professed her innocence in relation to the DUI but did, however, admit to consuming a single
alcoholic beverage with dinner, three hours before the traffic stop had been initiated that night.
Footage from the arresting officers’ body cams was later obtained by the UK news website
Daily Mail. During the hour-long video, Salley slurred her speech as she accused the officers of
targeting her because of her race. Among other belligerent remarks, the reporter at one point
made fun of Officer Carver’s male pattern baldness and belittled his intelligence. Salley publicly
apologized for her behavior towards the Palm Beach officers but maintained that she had
not been intoxicated on the evening of her arrest. Thanks for watching! Would you rather have one get
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