Reginald Potts Arrested Again In Case Unrelated To Nailah Franklin

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Reginald Potts, inset.

Reginald Potts was arrested for violating a court order of protection, reports the Daily Southtown. Police report that Reginald Potts resisted arrest while being taken into custody.

Reginald Potts has not been named by police as a suspect in the Nailah Franklin case.

Reports the Sun Times News Group:

Reginald Potts - who dated slain pharmaceutical representative Nailah Franklin and whose name has been linked to the investigation of her murder - was arrested Tuesday on unrelated charges.

Maywood police arrested Potts, 30, for violating an order of protection obtained by another woman. While being taken into custody at the Maywood courthouse, Potts resisted and struck a sheriff's deputy with his elbow, officials said.

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The ex-boyfriend of Nailah Franklin -- the missing Eli Lilly pharmaceutical representative who was found dead in Calumet City, Illinois -- was arrested on an unrelated charge of misdemeanor battery, reports CBS 2 Chicago.

Reginald Potts, 30, has been charged with misdemeanor battery. He was arrested on Friday in the 800 block of South Wabash Avenue, police News Affairs officers told CBS 2.

Potts is an acquaintance of Nailah Franklin, 28, whose body was found a week ago Thursday after a frantic nine-day search.

Police say that Reginald Potts isn't a suspect in Nailah Franklin's case, reports the Northwest Indiana Times.

Chicago police stressed that Friday's arrest of Reginald Potts, 30, an ex-boyfriend of Eli Lilly & Co. pharmaceutical sales representative Nailah Franklin, was on an unrelated charge and they have not named a suspect in her death.