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The Associated Press has revealed public records that show a pattern of police involvement into the personal life of Gary Coleman in Utah, where he chose to relocate hoping to escape the public eye.

 

Officers have been called to assist or intervene with Coleman 21 times since he moved to Utah in fall 2005, according to police reports — including a July 2007 call where Coleman told authorities he had taken dozens of Oxycontin pills, was suicidal and “wanted to die.”

 

Gary … was upset that his girlfriend was breaking up with him. He calmed down and was cooperative and acknowledged he took approximately 30-40 Oxycontin pills. He said he is suicidal and ‘wanted to die,'” according to a police report.      

The AP could not reach Coleman for comment. His phone number is unlisted, nobody answered a call button at his home and messages left with Coleman’s agent and an attorney were not immediately returned.      

Documents also show that Coleman, 40, has long had a rocky relationship with his now-wife, Shannon Price, 23. The two met in Utah on the set of the 2006 comedy, “Church Ball.”      

In January 2007, Coleman called police because he was worried Price was going to bring her three brothers to confront him following an argument they had. Then in July of that year, he exploded at Price in a clinic parking lot in Provo.      

Coleman was yelling and pounding his steering wheel for approximately 10 minutes before he jumped out of his truck. He ran out in front of his truck and around to the woman’s door, stopping several cars, and then he went to his door and was running around, yelling and screaming and throwing his arms in the air as he did,” the police report says. “Coleman was yelling that he could not take it anymore.”      

The report says Price felt threatened and was worried things were going to “get out of control the way they did earlier.” The 4-foot-8 actor was charged with disorderly conduct and eventually placed on probation. One month later, Coleman and Price got married on a Nevada mountaintop.      

In October 2007, Price told police Coleman threw an object at her that caused a small scrape on her hand, although she couldn’t say whether it was intentional and police didn’t trust either of their stories after going over the domestic violence statute.      

Coleman also worries that people are trying to break into his home, which has a privacy wall and is partially fenced, according to police reports. He has called the cops, saying he found a window open and, on another occasion, when he heard a noise that turned out to be fallen boxes in his basement. Once, he called because there was mud on his car, presumably some kind of drywall residue.      

Coleman’s most recent involvement with the law was a September dustup with a fan taking his photo at a local bowling alley which resulted in Coleman pleading no contest Dec. 2 to a disorderly conduct charge.

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