Los Angeles Times

Andy Dick arrested in sexual battery case

- By Gregory Yee

Actor and comedian Andy Dick was arrested Wednesday morning on suspicion of felony sexual battery in Orange County, according to authoritie­s.

Deputies were called at 9 a.m. with a report of a possible assault at O’Neill Regional Park on Trabuco Canyon Road, said Sgt. Scott Steinle, an Orange County Sheriff’s Department spokespers­on.

The deputies arrived at a campground at the park and contacted the caller, a man who said he was the victim of the assault, Steinle said.

After an investigat­ion, Dick, 56, was arrested on suspicion of felony sexual battery and booked into Orange County jail, the sergeant said.

The caller was taken to a hospital for an assault examinatio­n, Steinle said.

Further informatio­n about Wednesday’s case wasn’t available.

The comedian has been arrested several times on allegation­s including drug possession, groping and more.

In November, Dick was arrested by Los Angeles police on a felony domestic violence charge.

Law enforcemen­t sources told TMZ at the time that Dick allegedly hit his boyfriend on the head with a liquor bottle, leaving a deep cut.

He was also arrested in late June on suspicion of felony assault with a deadly weapon — a metal chair — on a man identified by Page Six as ex-lover Lucas Crawford. The arrest led to a breakup between Dick and then-fiancee Elisa Jordana.

Dick told Page Six that Crawford first “bodyslamme­d” his leg in that brawl. Dick said he threw the chair after his leg was broken.

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