MURRIETA, Calif. (AP) — Andy Dick was arrested early Wednesday for investigation of drug use and sexual battery after the comedian allegedly pulled down a teenager's top, police said.
The former co-star of the TV sitcom NewsRadio was released from a detention center after posting $5,000 bail. Calls to his representatives seeking comment were not immediately returned.
Police were called to the Buffalo Wild Wings in Murrieta at about 1:13 a.m. to investigate a report of "an intoxicated male" urinating outside the bar and causing a disturbance, according to a police statement.
When they arrived, a 17-year-old girl told police that she was outside when Dick left the bar, walked up, "grabbed her tank top and bra and pulled them down and exposed her breasts," the statement said.
Friends escorted Dick to a truck, which officers stopped at a nearby Sam's Club, police said.
Dick was identified by the teenager and a witness, police said.
Marijuana and the drug Xanax were found his pants pockets during a search and he appeared "extremely intoxicated," police said.
Dick, 42, was booked at Southwest Detention Center in French Valley on suspicion of felony possession of a controlled substance, misdemeanor sexual battery and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.
Dick has a reputation for crude behavior. He has been reported to have exposed himself to audiences at least twice. He was forcibly removed from the set of the show Jimmy Kimmel Live last year after he repeatedly touched guest Ivanka Trump without her permission.
Also last year, Dick was cited in Columbus, Ohio, for urinating on the sidewalk. A comedy club owner in the city said the actor also made inappropriate comments while onstage, groped patrons, took women into the men's room and urinated on the floor and on at least one person.
In 1999, Dick was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana after driving his car into a telephone pole in Hollywood. He pleaded guilty but the charges were dismissed after he went into a diversion program.
8 comments:
I know this is a terrible thing to say about someone - but I would not be sorry if Andy Dick just disappeared.
You guys want to pool your money, I can make that happen. I'm just sayin'...I got to cover costs...
I've always despised Andy Dick! I suspect he might be bipolar.
Ha, miko! The funny thing is, I almost added a line in my comment asking if you could work something out! (But then I thought maybe that wasn't polite.)
LOL DCD. You know how to flatter us crazies, you silver-tongued devil. Nothing impolite about it, feel free to further reveal my idiosyncrasies here in Horrorthon...can't be anymore revealing or inappropriate than me.
(quick inappropriate story follows)
My stepmother is much like AC. Very liberal, both a minister and social worker, and never really approved of either my firearms nor martial arts background, although she was too nice to say so to me.
I had just left the military, and my step-sister in Michigan was dating an absolute asshole (her rebound after a nasty divorce). Everyone hated this guy because he wasn't very nice to my sister, but what could you do? On day my sis calls my stepmother and tells her that this guy slapped her. Upon hanging up with my sister, my liberal, no death penalty, doesn't like violent movies step-mom went to my father and asked him to call me and ask when I as available to fly to Michigan and "talk" to my sisters boyfriend.
Life is funny.
Well???? Did you "talk" to him????
I'm not sure they were ever gonna let me actually "talk" to him, to be honest. They scheduled my trip, then my other step-sister called him while drunk, and informed him of my imminent arrival and the possible outcomes of such a visit.
This proved to be the catalyst he needed to disappear from my sisters life.
So, apparently I am the adult version of the "bogey man".
great story miko. given the dates of these comments, i assume it's too late for me to object to the slanderous portrayal of my character above. i hope to have a future opportunity to debate/clarify my "liberalism" at some point, optimally on a day when my coworkers, friends, and family members aren't reading it.
another tangent: lawrence block has written some entertaining, tongue-in-cheek stories about a hitman. they are fun but i much prefer his gritty, new york-based matt scudder series.
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