RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, CA — Comedian Andy Dick was arrested on suspicion of felony sexual battery fees Wednesday morning at O’Neill Regional Park in Orange County, authorities informed Patch.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrived to a campground on the park 9 a.m. Wednesday to reply to studies of sexual battery after an grownup male claimed Dick, 56, sexually assaulted him, the OCSD spokesperson Scott Steinle informed Patch.
Dick faces felony sexual battery fees and is being booked into the Orange County Jail, Steinle mentioned.
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The arrest was reportedly streamed reside on a well-liked YouTube channel, TMZ reported.
Dick has a protracted historical past of sexual assault allegations stemming from as early as 2008, the place the comic reportedly pulled off the shirt of a 17-year-old woman whereas drunk in Murrieta.
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He was additionally accused of groping a rideshare driver in West Hollywood in 2018, in response to earlier Patch studies.
Dick was fired from the unbiased movie “Raising Buchanan” in 2017 after co-workers accused him of groping, licking and sexually propositioning them, sources informed The Hollywood Reporter.
The comic denied the groping allegations however acknowledged he might have licked folks as a part of his comedian shtick.
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“I didn’t grope anybody. I might have kissed somebody on the cheek to say goodbye and then licked them. That’s my thing,” Dick mentioned in a earlier report. “I licked Carrie Fisher at a roast. It’s me being funny. I’m not trying to sexually harass people,” he mentioned.
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