Marshall’s wife, Michi Nogami-Marshall, 26, was arrested Friday by Broward County Sheriff’s in South Florida on a domestic-violence charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. Nogami-Marshall was released from jail on a $7,500 bond Saturday afternoon.
This is not the first time the police have visited the Marshalls because of a physical altercation. A few months before they got married, Brandon Marshall was arrested for punching her in the face like she was a man. They were seen fighting and kicking each other. Nogami-Marshall, then a fiancee, called police and was set to prosecute her beau.
She didn’t follow through with the charges, however. Marshall must have convinced her to drop the charges. They were wed two months later.
This latest incident uncovers a pattern of questionable behavior and temper control problems for Marshall.
The supremely talented receiver’s tenure in Denver was punctuated by touchdowns and turbulence.
Marshall was suspended by the team for the entire 2009 preseason after a series of behaviors considered detrimental to the team. The Broncos finally decided to discard Marshall when a Denver television station filmed Marshall walking through drills when his teammates were running, punting a football in protest and swatting away balls during a training-camp passing procedure.
Marshall was also one of the instigators of the fight that led to teammate Darrent Williams’ shooting death on New Year’s Eve in 2006. And Marshall’s history of arrests includes disorderly conduct, drunken driving and a number of incidents of alleged domestic violence.
So when Marshall’s wife tried to offer the self-defense explanation to the police before they arrested her, she may indeed have been trying to stave off the latest round of beatings in an often turbulent relationship involving a man with a hair-trigger temper. –terry shropshire
