Actor Raymond Cruz, best known for playing drug lord Tuco Salamanca on “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” was arrested after he allegedly sprayed a woman with a garden hose in Los Angeles, according to reports.
Cruz was washing his car when the incident occurred on Monday around 10:40 a.m., People reported. According to his agent, Raphael Berko, a minivan carrying three women parked about “a half an inch” from his bumper.” The actor, in response, requested that they move, Berko said.
“They said no,” the agent told People. “He goes, ‘come on, move your car. You’re not giving me room, and it’s going to get wet.’ So, he said, ‘OK.’ He started to clean his car and then they started filming him.”
Cruz then asked the women to stop recording him, but he was still holding his hose at the time, Berko explained. As he turned around, “some of the water from his hose hit the front of his car and spilled on their car.”
“And then believe it or not, one of them called the police,” he added. “And somehow someone who’s never been arrested in his life, someone who played a police detective for 15 years on ‘The Closer’ and ‘Major Crimes,’ someone who lives in that neighborhood, was put in handcuffs and taken to jail.”
In addition to starring in “The Closer” and its spinoff “Major Crimes” as Detective Julio Sanchez from 2005 to 2018, Cruz also had appearances on “White Collar,” “NYPD Blue,” “CSI” and “CSI: Miami,” “My Name Is Earl,” “The Division” and in films like “Training Day” and “Alien: Resurrection.”
Cruz was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery, and he was released on his own recognizance the same day of his arrest. He’s due back in court on Oct. 1.
