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Pinellas Deputy Gives Details Of 'Bachelor' Stars' Fight

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By STEPHEN THOMPSON, The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 27, 2007

SEMINOLE - Mary Delgado and Byron Velvick returned to the limelight last week.

   Mary Delgado and Byron Velvick in 2004

The initial public exposure came three years ago when Velvick proposed to Delgado during an episode of the television show "The Bachelor."

Domestic fisticuffs, authorities said, put them back on the public's radar Friday.

Delgado punched Velvick on Tuesday night after the two, still a bachelor and bachelorette, disagreed over whether they should leave a condominium where they were visiting friends, said Pinellas County sheriff's Sgt. Jim Bordner.

Velvick wanted to leave because the couple they were visiting began arguing, but Delgado wanted to stay, Bordner said. After the pair got into Velvick's truck, they "became involved in an argument which turned physical," Bordner said.

Velvick "told deputies she started striking him in the chest while he pushed her to her side of the truck," Bordner said.

She eventually struck him on the mouth, splitting his upper lip on the left side, Bordner said. He returned to the condominium to clean himself up and, while she waited in the truck, he called authorities, Bordner said. Velvick did not want to press charges, Bordner said, nor did he want his injuries photographed.

Deputies determined that a crime had occurred and arrested Delgado on a charge of battery.

Delgado was released the next day on her own recognizance.

Reporter Stephen Thompson can be reached at (727) 451-2336 or spthompson@tampatrib.com.

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