A registered sex offender was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of battery and committing a hate crime after shouting homophobic slurs at members of the Sonoma County Pride Bowling League during their weekly league night in Rohnert Park.

Vincent Charles Belfiore, 64, was taken into custody outside Double Decker Lanes on Golf Course Drive, according to Lt. Andrew Smith of the Rohnert Park Department of Public Safety.

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Police said Belfiore confronted league members just before 9:30 p.m. Among them was league president Christopher Mahurin, a lieutenant with the Santa Rosa Police Department, who said Belfiore directed numerous slurs at him before being asked to leave.

“I immediately told him it’s time to leave,” Mahurin told The Press Democrat. “A lot of our bowlers are pretty

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