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Embattled comic Andy Dick was arrested early Friday morning in Lake Elsinore, Calif., and charged with public intoxication and failing to register as a intercourse offender.
The Riverside County Sheriff’s Division mentioned in a information launch that deputies responded concerning an “intoxicated topic” who was “presumably underneath the affect of narcotics” on the 15700 block of Grand Avenue at 12:30 a.m. Upon arrival, they found Dick, 67, “displaying indicators of being inebriated” and arrested him with out incident.
Authorities mentioned a routine information verify revealed that Dick “was a registered intercourse offender who was not up-to-date on his registration.” The RCSD added that he was booked into the Cois Byrd Detention Heart and mentioned the investigation is ongoing.
A consultant for Dick did not instantly reply to EW’s request for remark.
Riverside County Sheriff Andy Dick’s reserving photograph
Dick has dealt together with his share of authorized bother lately. In Could, he was arrested on suspicion of felony sexual battery after a person accused him of sexual assault, although the costs had been later dropped. In October, he was arrested for first-degree residential housebreaking after allegedly making an attempt to steal energy instruments from a Santa Barbara residence. He has pleaded not responsible to the crime, in line with the Santa Barbara Information-Press.
In November, Dick was convicted of sexual battery for groping an Uber driver in 2018 and sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County jail, per the L.A. Occasions. He was additionally ordered to register as a intercourse offender.
The comic, whose display credit embrace three seasons of his eponymous Andy Dick Present, has a historical past with the legislation that stretches again greater than a decade. In 2008, he was taken in on drug and battery fees in Murietta, Calif. He later accepted a plea deal that required him to put on an alcohol-monitoring bracelet for one 12 months.
Dick has additionally been accused of sexual misconduct on set. He was dropped from two movies, Elevating Buchanan and Vampire Dad, in 2017, after it was reported that he allegedly groped and made inappropriate sexual developments and lewd remarks to a number of people throughout manufacturing on each initiatives. He was equally faraway from Judd Apatow’s sequence Love after being accused of sexual assault in 2017, with Apatow calling Dick’s actions “reprehensible.”
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