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 Dangerous” — was washing his automobile on the road in entrance of his Silver Lake-area residence when one other automobile with three feminine occupants parked inches away from him, mentioned Raphael Berko, his agent with Media Artists Group.
Cruz requested the ladies, who gave the impression to be of their 30s, to maneuver their automobile at the very least a foot away so it wouldn’t get moist, in response to Berko.
“The ladies have been very impolite to him and mentioned no,” Berko mentioned, including that ample parking was accessible elsewhere on the road.
As an alternative, the ladies took out their telephones and began to document Cruz, Berko mentioned.
The actor, who additionally performed detective Julio Sanchez in “The Nearer” and its spin-off sequence “Main Crimes,” turned uncomfortable and rotated, hose in hand, to inform them to “cease recording,” Berko mentioned.
In doing so, Berko says some water might have inadvertently splashed on the ladies. However the ladies — one in all whom was the daughter of a housekeeper on the block — mentioned Cruz deliberately sprayed them, and so they known 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 mentioned he and his consumer count on the case will likely be dropped.
Berko characterised the incident as a misunderstanding, and mentioned Cruz doesn’t have a legal document.
The actor has a courtroom listening to scheduled for Oct. 1, however on-line data don’t present any costs as of Tuesday afternoon.
