Lakers reserve forward Derrick Caracter was arrested early Sunday morning near the team’s New Orleans hotel following an altercation with a pregnant waitress at an IHOP restaurant, according to a report in The Times-Picayune.

Caracter, who has not played in any of the Lakers’ postseason games, including Sunday’s Game 4 loss to the Hornets, allegedly was drunk when he struck the woman and then refused to cooperate with a policewoman who attempted to defuse the situation.

He was charged with battery, public intoxication and resisting arrest.

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