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Did anyone catch this story in the Sentinel:
RADIO BATTLE GETS PHYSICAL
Scott Maxwell
The battle between Orlando's morning-radio shows turned physical this past weekend, when one of 104.1 FM's Monsters in the Morning rushed a stage on Church Street, leaving 105.9's Drew Garabo with a bloody face and broken nose.
Blackbean, whose real name is Carlos Navarro, was charged with simple battery, according to a charging affidavit from the Orlando Police Department.
In the report, the arresting officer wrote that Navarro "punched the victim with [his] right fist to the victim's face."
Translated Garabo: "He broke my nose."
Garabo, who said he spent early Saturday in the emergency room, said the incident was as surprising as it was embarrassing. He said he barely had time to see Navarro coming toward him before he got "sucker-punched."
"Getting knocked out in front of 500 people is not my idea of fun on St. Patrick's Day," he said.
Navarro couldn't be reached for comment. But according to the police report, he told the officer: "I'm sorry, but that guy called my girlfriend a [expletive]."
Monsters show leader Russ Rollins said Monday that Garabo had referred to Rollins' fiancee in the same unflattering way, saying in an e-mail: "Drew has made it his mission to say many derogatory things about all of us on the Monsters and the station . . . he's tried his best to get a rise out of us."
Garabo was part of the 104.1 family until last year, when the station fired him. After about a year's hiatus, 105.9 hired him to fill the morning hours that Howard Stern was vacating.
As for the accusation that he had been trying to provoke Blackbean or any of the Monsters, Garabo simply said, "No comment."
RADIO BATTLE GETS PHYSICAL
Scott Maxwell
The battle between Orlando's morning-radio shows turned physical this past weekend, when one of 104.1 FM's Monsters in the Morning rushed a stage on Church Street, leaving 105.9's Drew Garabo with a bloody face and broken nose.
Blackbean, whose real name is Carlos Navarro, was charged with simple battery, according to a charging affidavit from the Orlando Police Department.
In the report, the arresting officer wrote that Navarro "punched the victim with [his] right fist to the victim's face."
Translated Garabo: "He broke my nose."
Garabo, who said he spent early Saturday in the emergency room, said the incident was as surprising as it was embarrassing. He said he barely had time to see Navarro coming toward him before he got "sucker-punched."
"Getting knocked out in front of 500 people is not my idea of fun on St. Patrick's Day," he said.
Navarro couldn't be reached for comment. But according to the police report, he told the officer: "I'm sorry, but that guy called my girlfriend a [expletive]."
Monsters show leader Russ Rollins said Monday that Garabo had referred to Rollins' fiancee in the same unflattering way, saying in an e-mail: "Drew has made it his mission to say many derogatory things about all of us on the Monsters and the station . . . he's tried his best to get a rise out of us."
Garabo was part of the 104.1 family until last year, when the station fired him. After about a year's hiatus, 105.9 hired him to fill the morning hours that Howard Stern was vacating.
As for the accusation that he had been trying to provoke Blackbean or any of the Monsters, Garabo simply said, "No comment."
