Actor Raymond Cruz was held in custody for 5 hours on Monday after a sudsy spat with three ladies in his Los Angeles neighborhood.
Cruz — who portrayed the drug lord Tuco Salamanca on “Breaking Unhealthy” — was washing his automotive on the road in entrance of his Silver Lake-area dwelling when one other automotive with three feminine occupants parked inches away from him, stated Raphael Berko, his agent with Media Artists Group.
Cruz requested the ladies, who seemed to be of their 30s, to maneuver their automotive a minimum of a foot away so it wouldn’t get moist, in line with Berko.
“The ladies had been very impolite to him and stated no,” Berko stated, including that ample parking was obtainable elsewhere on the road.
As an alternative, the ladies took out their telephones and began to file Cruz, Berko stated.
The actor, who additionally performed detective Julio Sanchez in “The Nearer” and its spin-off sequence “Main Crimes,” grew to become uncomfortable and rotated, hose in hand, to inform them to “cease recording,” Berko stated.
In doing so, Berko says some water could have inadvertently splashed on the ladies. However the ladies — one in all whom was the daughter of a housekeeper on the block — stated Cruz deliberately sprayed them, they usually referred to as the police to report an alleged assault.
Cruz was handcuffed by the Los Angeles Police Division and brought into custody for 5 hours, however Berko stated he and his consumer count on the case shall be dropped.
Berko characterised the incident as a misunderstanding, and stated Cruz doesn’t have a prison file.
The actor has a court docket listening to scheduled for Oct. 1, however on-line data don’t present any fees as of Tuesday afternoon.
