Karate Child and Cobra Kai actor Martin Kove averted arrest after a weird incident at a fan conference on Sunday (June 22), which allegedly noticed him chunk fellow Cobra Kai actor Alicia Hannah-Kim on her arm.
In line with a police report obtained by Deadline, the incident occurred on the Summer season Con conference in Puyallup, Washington, over the weekend. Hannah-Kim is alleged to have known as the police after Kove grabbed her arm and bit it as she handed by a meet-and-greet desk. She claimed the chunk “practically drew blood” and that Kove kissed her arm after she yelled out in ache.
“He grabbed my arm once more to kiss it… I pulled my arm away and rushed again to my desk,” Hannah-Kim mentioned in a press release.
The unusual act, which Kove mentioned was performed in “jest,” was additionally witnessed by Hannah-Kim’s husband, actor Sebastian Roche. Each Hannah-Kim and Roche reportedly instructed Kove what he did was utterly unacceptable.
“[Kove] was livid and outraged and visibly indignant after I instructed him calmly to not chunk me… he insisted he bit me for enjoyable,” Hannah-Kim continued in her police assertion. “We then determined to contact the officer on the con to resolve the scenario and presumably press costs.”
Puyallup Police Officer Eric Barry famous that Kove “admitted to biting Alicia’s arm and mentioned he did it out of jest and he thought he was being humorous, they usually play struggle on a regular basis on the set of Cobra Kai, and he didn’t assume it was a giant deal.” Barry’s report additionally acknowledged that the actress “had a really noticeable chunk mark on her arm that was already turning blue and bruising.”
After one other face-to-face with Kove, Hannah-Kim determined to not press costs.
“I then re-contacted Martin Kove and defined that Alicia didn’t wish to pursue costs, however he did certainly break the legislation in keeping with the State of Washington and this habits won’t be tolerated sooner or later,” Officer Barry added. “I supplied him with a case quantity, and I requested him if he wished to supply a voluntary handwritten assertion, however he declined and shaking my hand, he thanked me (as did his son) and he was escorted out of Summer season Con.”
Kove is greatest identified for taking part in Karate Child villain John Creese within the unique three movies, a job which he reprised in Netflix’s Cobra Kai. Hannah-Kim joined Cobra Kai in Season 5, taking part in South Korean sensei Kim Da-Eun. Different collection castmates have been additionally in attendance on the con, together with Mary Mouser, Tanner Buchanan, Rayna Vallandingham, and Patrick Luwis.
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