A man accused of abusing his ex-girlfriend bombarded her with hundreds of calls before confronting her in Berkeley despite a restraining order, police say.
Earlier this month, police say Derrick Sparks, 44, followed his ex-girlfriend in a vehicle for several blocks before getting into a tense street confrontation with a man who was with her.
During the Aug. 7 confrontation on Russell Street in South Berkeley, the woman’s mother pepper-sprayed Sparks after he spit in his ex-girlfriend’s face, police wrote in charging papers…