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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