NEWSAndy Dick Released From Jail With No Charges After Sexual Battery Arrest
Andy Dick was released from an Orange County jail after posting ten percent of his $25,000 bail on Thursday, May 12.
He was arrested at O'Neill Regional Park in Trabuco Canyon on suspicion of felony sexual battery after cops were called to the campground around 9 A.M. on Wednesday, May 11.
According to the Orange County Sheriff's Department, the standup comic has not been officially charged with any crime as of yet, but he is still under investigation. He is scheduled to appear back in court on Wednesday, August 10, but if he is not charged in connection with the incident by the time the court date comes around, the case will be dismissed.
As OK! previously reported, Dick's arrest was livestreamed by Captain Content's RV. In the video clip, Dick is shown talking for a moment with Orange County deputies before he is cuffed and taken into custody.
Little information is known regarding the alleged sexual battery incident, but in the livestream, a man identified only as JJ claimed the comedian assaulted him while he was asleep.
"I was just in bed right now, and I smelled certain parts of my body …" JJ's voice can be heard in the footage. "[I was] in the other RV with Andy, and … the last thing I remember, we were on the phone with his fiancée … I smelled parts of myself and they smell like artificial smells."
This isn't the first time Dick has been hit with backlash for inappropriate sexual contact. In 2017, he was fired from indie feature film Raising Buchanan for allegedly "groping people’s genitals, unwanted kissing/licking and sexual propositions."
"I don't grope people anymore. I don't expose myself anymore," he said in a phone interview with The Hollywood Reporter at the time. "I do understand that the temperature in the world right now is delicate."
The following year, the Employee of the Month actor was charged with one count of sexual battery and one count of simple battery after a woman accused him of grabbing her backside and making lewd comments to her in 2018. That same year, a male ride-share driver alleged Dick groped him.
