Runaway teen sparks Chumash Day brawl, two arrested
A 15-year-old's family confrontation with her new boyfriend turned into a fight in front of hundreds of festival-goers.
Sheriff’s deputies have revealed why two people were arrested at Malibu Bluffs Park in the middle of the very-popular Chumash Day Pow Wow.
A fracas broke out in the middle of the popular festival and art show. It turns out, a 15-year-old girl had run away from her home in Oxnard to be with her new boyfriend.
Sgt. Chris Soderlund says the girl’s parents took things into their own hands.
“They found out from the female’s ex-boyfriend that she was going to be at Chumash Day with her new boyfriend,” Soderlund said. “And so the family members and the mom decided to go to Chumash Day to persuade her to come home. The new boyfriend did not want her to leave and a fight ensued. The mom of the new boyfriend decided to obstruct the deputy’s arrest. And she ended up getting arrested for obstructing investigation.”
It was a regular Jerry Springer Show, in front of hundreds of spectators at the city’s premiere cultural event.
That was apparently the most serious crime incident in our fair city in the last two weeks. But the minor crime rate in Malibu has just about doubled in the past month. Some of it is burglary from construction sites. Some of it is people stealing stuff out of parked cars at the beaches. Soderlund says it’s simply more people at the beach.