Comic Paul Rodriguez faces contemporary allegations of narcotics possession after being arrested on comparable costs lower than 5 months in the past in the identical metropolis.
Burbank police arrested the 70-year-old “Blood Work” and “Rat Race” actor round 8:30 p.m. Monday at a parking construction within the metropolis’s downtown space, police Sgt. Stephen Turner confirmed to The Occasions on Thursday. Rodriguez was booked later at Burbank Metropolis Jail on suspicion of misdemeanor narcotics possession.
He was launched early Tuesday morning with a quotation and is due in court docket Sept. 5. A authorized consultant for Rodriguez didn’t instantly reply to The Occasions’ request for remark Thursday.
Police confirmed up on the parking construction for a welfare verify after a witness voiced concern a couple of man and girl leaving a restaurant within the space. In response to Turner, the witness instructed police the lady and the person, later recognized as Rodriguez, had been “below the affect and never alert.” Officers situated individuals who matched the witness’ description in a car within the construction. Rodriguez was within the driver’s seat and a lady was within the entrance passenger seat.
“The investigation led to the invention of alprazolam [Xanax] and heroin inside the feminine’s private bag,” Turner stated, including that the lady was arrested on suspicion of drug possession.
Officers additionally allegedly discovered Xanax and “suspected fentanyl” in Rodriguez’s car. The actor stated the medicine weren’t his, Turner stated.
The small print of Rodriguez’s arrest Monday echo these from his earlier arrest in Burbank in March. The “A Million Little Issues” actor was arrested after police allegedly discovered narcotics in his car throughout a site visitors cease.
Rodriguez disputed legislation enforcement’s recounting of the incident, telling TMZ in March that he was sleeping within the passenger seat when a “Caucasian” officer on a “energy journey” slapped him to wake him up. Rodriguez instructed the outlet that the medicine belonged to the one who was driving.
On the time, Rodriguez’s legal professional Bobby Samini referred to as the fees towards his consumer false and stated the comedian’s arrest and remedy by police had been a “violation of his civil rights.”
“He absolutely cooperated with legislation enforcement always,” Samini stated in March. “Legislation enforcement asserted that the driving force of the car was in possession of a managed substance. Mr. Rodriguez didn’t have any managed substance in his possession, nor was he below the affect of any managed substance.”
Rodriguez, who was born in Mexico and raised in East Los Angeles, started his profession at L.A. comedy golf equipment within the late Nineteen Seventies and has written and starred in quite a few comedy specials. His résumé additionally contains internet hosting gigs for Univision and MTV packages and roles in movies “Made in America,” “Tortilla Soup” and “The World’s Quickest Indian.”
Occasions senior Sacramento reporter Taryn Luna contributed to this article.
