“The Wrestler” – Steroid Dealer Busted
“The Wrestler” – Steroid Dealer Busted

The feds stated on Thursday the fact that the actor who plays a steroid dealer in the Oscar-nominated movie "The Wrestler" had a real-life stash: 1,500 bottles of anabolic steroids and more than $100,000 in cash were found in two homes.

The details showed up in a criminal complaint filed by federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents after actor Scott Siegel's arrest on Wednesday night.

Authorities were watching Siegel that night when they spotted him in a car parked right outside his parents' home in the gated Eastchester townhouse community of Lake Isle, Westchester County. According to their statement Siegel got out of his car holding a brown box and walked up to a surveillance vehicle with four officers inside.

Siegel, who played a drug supplier to Mickey Rourke's Randy (The Ram) Robinson character in “The Wrestler,” drove away. He returned a short time later, and cops made an attempt to close in for an arrest. But Siegel got the picture and fled, smashing his car through a wooden fence before ramming into five police cars as they attempted to box him in, the feds say.

He jumped into another car and was caught after a short chase in Eastchester.

Siegel is now facing charges of assault on a federal officer and steroid distribution.




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