Andy Dick pleads guilty to pot possession and battery charges
Posted on October 18th, 2008 by Hot Momma
Comedian Andy Dick has pleaded guilty to misdemeanor marijuana possession and battery counts stemming from an incident in in which he pulled a teenage girl’s top down after exiting a sports bar. He was arrested after officers responded to a call about an intoxicated male outside a restaurant in Murrieta, a city about 80 miles east of Los Angeles. Arriving officers found Dick sitting in the front passenger seat of a truck, “mumbling incoherently,” Officer Jason Calvert said in his police report. The other occupants of the vehicle, except the driver, also appeared to be intoxicated, according to Calvert, who said Dick “continued to be oblivious to what was going on” upon arrival at the police station and later passed out on the floor of a holding cell.
The father of three denied touching the teenager, saying several times “that he did not like girls,” and also denied using drugs, though a Xanax pill – Xanax is used to treat anxiety disorders – and a small amount of marijuana were found in his pants pocket, according to Calvert.
Dick was ordered to serve three years of probation and wear an alcohol anklet monitor for the next year, court records show. “The anklet monitors the defendant’s alcohol and drug use (through sweat), and if it detects use, law enforcement is notified,” said Ryan Hightower, information officer with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office. Dick, 42, must also be enrolled in the Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor, or SCRAM, program by Nov. 17, according to court records. He avoided felony charges stemming from his arrest in mid-July after prosecutors determined Dick did not commit felony sexual battery after a teenage girl accused him of pulling her top down. The “NewsRadio” actor did not appear in a Riverside County courtroom on Friday to answer to the charges, but his attorney stood in for him.
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