Actor Raymond Cruz was held in custody for five hours on Monday after a sudsy spat with three women in his Los Angeles neighborhood. <\/p>\n
Cruz \u2014 who portrayed the drug lord Tuco Salamanca on \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d \u2014 was washing his car on the street in front of his Silver Lake-area home when another car with three female occupants parked inches away from him, said Raphael Berko, his agent with Media Artists Group. <\/p>\n
Cruz asked the women, who appeared to be in their 30s, to move their car at least a foot away so it wouldn\u2019t get wet, according to Berko. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe women were very rude to him and said no,\u201d Berko said, adding that ample parking was available elsewhere on the street.<\/p>\n
Instead, the women took out their phones and started to record Cruz, Berko said.<\/p>\n
The actor, who also played detective Julio Sanchez in \u201cThe Closer\u201d and its spin-off series \u201cMajor Crimes,\u201d became uncomfortable and turned around, hose in hand, to tell them to \u201cstop recording,\u201d Berko said.<\/p>\n
In doing so, Berko says some water may have inadvertently splashed on the women. But the women \u2014 one of whom was the daughter of a housekeeper on the block \u2014 said Cruz intentionally sprayed them, and they called the police to report an alleged assault.<\/p>\n
Cruz was handcuffed by the Los Angeles Police Department and taken into custody for five hours, but Berko said he and his client expect the case will be dropped.<\/p>\n
Berko characterized the incident as a misunderstanding, and said Cruz doesn\u2019t have a criminal record.<\/p>\n
The actor has a court hearing scheduled for Oct. 1, but online records do not show any charges as of Tuesday afternoon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Raymond Cruz was held in custody for five hours on Monday after a sudsy spat with three…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[18046,116939,2322,45837,1582,276,2332,10615,7361,116938,3043,116937,2961,224,2444,5337,116936,625,527,11459],"class_list":{"0":"post-213808","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-actor","9":"tag-actor-raymond-cruz","10":"tag-agent","11":"tag-breaking-bad","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-car","15":"tag-cruz","16":"tag-custody","17":"tag-female-occupant","18":"tag-hour","19":"tag-l-a-parking-dispute","20":"tag-la","21":"tag-los-angeles","22":"tag-los-angeles-times","23":"tag-losangeles","24":"tag-raphael-berko","25":"tag-street","26":"tag-water","27":"tag-woman"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115176427186237939","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}