‘Really?!’ William Levy appears stunned in bodycam video of April arrest in Weston
More than seven months after his arrest outside a South Florida bar, William Levy is back in the news.
The telenovela star was taken into custody April 14 after a drama-filled incident at Baires Grill in Weston.
In the Broward Sheriff’s Office’s newly released bodycam footage, obtained by the Miami Herald, you see Levy outside the establishment attempting to give officers his side of the story.
When he’s told he’s being arrested for a trespass warrant, Levy sounds shocked.
“Really?” shouts the 44-year-old. “Really?!”
What Levy says next is garbled, but it sounds like, “I don’t know nothing.”
Seconds later, the actor calmly climbs into the backseat of the patrol car.
As for the night in question, deputies responded to the Argentine steakhouse/lounge just after 10 p.m. on a “disturbance” call, according to a police report.
The complaint adds that Levy was “highly intoxicated and causing a disturbance inside the restaurant.”
BSO deputies say he was issued a trespass warning by the manager and ordered to leave, but ignored commands.
Levy was booked into the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale on charges of disorderly intoxication and trespassing in an occupied structure or conveyance. A judge later granted him $500 bond.
Immediately after his release, Levy told reporters outside the jailhouse that he got caught in the middle of a situation trying to break up a fight over the bill. He had been with a group of friends from his son’s baseball team, the report says.
“I was having a drink with one of my friends from the team [and] they started arguing with another guy and I got in front of him to try to deescalate the situation,” the “Dancing with the Stars” alum explained.
In July, Levy caught a break and was accepted into a diversion program, which according to the Broward County State Attorney’s Office, “affords first time offenders an opportunity to immediately accept responsibility for their actions, seek rehabilitation, and divert their cases from the criminal court system.”
Levy successfully completed the program and the charges were dismissed.
