By Editor,James Cirrone

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A former Bay Area TV anchor has been arrested for the fourth time in nearly five years, this time on suspicion of assault.

Frank Somerville, 67, was booked into the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County on Monday evening and remained there until he made bail on Tuesday morning.

Details of the ex-KTVU host’s arrest were not immediately made available, though jail records said he was arrested for alleged battery causing serious bodily injury.

The arrest took place at 6:53pm in Oakland, the East Bay Times reported. Daily Mail approached the Oakland Police Department for comment.

The incident marks Somerville’s latest brush with the law, many of which have been linked to alcohol.

In June 2023, Somerville was arrested twice in the span of nine hours after having confrontations with family members at a residence in Berkeley, which is just north of Oakland.

He was cuffed at the Berkeley home at 6:36pm on Monday after allegedly getting into a fight with a relative.

He then reappeared at the home early Tuesday morning and was accused of getting into a wrestling match with a male family member. He was arrested again at 3:26am.

In December 2021, he crashed his Porsche into another car a few blocks from his home in Oakland’s Uptown.

Police said he rear-ended the other driver’s car, which crashed into a pole on the corner of the intersection, KRON4 reported.

The other driver was taken to the hospital, and Somerville was arrested at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence.

He was given a breathalyzer test, which showed his blood alcohol level was .24 at the time of the crash, three times the legal limit.

Somerville pleaded no contest to the DUI charge in August 2022 and was ordered to attend DUI classes. He was also given three years probation, which ended this year.

A month after the Porsche crash, KTVU let his contract expire, ending his 31-year career with the FOX-affiliated station.

This came after KTVU suspended him twice in 2021, once for slurring his words during a newscast.

The other suspension came because he reportedly sparred with the station’s producers on how he thought they should have been covering the Gabby Petito investigation in September of that year.

Somerville, who has a black daughter, reportedly argued that their coverage should have a disclaimer about how media coverage of missing persons investigations tend to focus more on white women than women of color.