Joe Budden was charged with lewdness on Monday following an incident the place his neighbor claimed seeing him “fully bare.”
The Edgewater Police in New Jersey launched an announcement right this moment (Tuesday) that on Dec. 4, authorities have been “dispatched to an condominium advanced for the report from a resident {that a} man was standing exterior of their condominium door fully bare. The caller acknowledged the person as a neighbor, Joseph Budden Jr., a 44-year-old male.”
The caller was alerted of Joe’s presence with assist of their ring digicam. In keeping with the report, “The video depicted Budden trying to enter a code into the door keypad a number of occasions earlier than reentering his personal residence throughout the corridor.”
“These prices are merely accusations,” chief of police Donald A. Martin famous within the press launch. “The defendant is presumed harmless till and until confirmed responsible past an affordable doubt.”
Budden’s lawyer, Nima Ameri, advised TMZ, “Mr. Budden is saddened by Police Chief Martin’s press launch. Mr. Budden has been ready weeks for his cross complaints to be processed which embody considerably extra severe prices embody potential felony prices in opposition to the individuals behind these prices in opposition to him. The Chief has in our opinion sat on these however as an alternative used his time to realize some free publicity for himself. Chief Martin ought to search publicity by doing notable policing not inflaming disorderly particular person allegations.”
He continued: “The allegations in opposition to Mr. Budden are a minor cost, not even leading to an arrest. A cost Mr. Budden is wanting ahead to beating in courtroom on the deserves, not within the press. The Chief’s feedback are reckless, and in our opinion racially motivated. Our analysis has not proven a single press launch on a disorderly particular person cost on the police web site this 12 months. His option to single out Mr. Budden in our opinion is self motivated and based mostly off of Mr. Budden’s race and celeb standing.”
Earlier this month, Budden had addressed his absence from The Joe Budden Podcast by admitting that he was going through sleepwalking points once more. “I simply sleptwalked someplace I shouldn’t have sleptwalked,” he advised his co-hosts. “You know the way I sleep — buttass. Good nakedass. Good bare sleepwalking. I simply did it once more.”
