Joe Budden was charged with lewdness on Monday following an incident the place his neighbor claimed seeing him “utterly bare.”
The Edgewater Police in New Jersey launched a press release at present (Tuesday) that on Dec. 4, authorities have been “dispatched to an house complicated for the report from a resident {that a} man was standing outdoors of their house door utterly 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 digital camera. In line with the report, “The video depicted Budden making an attempt to enter a code into the door keypad a number of instances earlier than reentering his personal residence throughout the corridor.”
“These fees 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, instructed 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 fees embody attainable felony fees towards the individuals behind these fees towards him. The Chief has in our opinion sat on these however as a substitute used his time to realize some free publicity for himself. Chief Martin ought to search publicity by doing notable policing not inflaming disorderly individual allegations.”
He continued: “The allegations towards Mr. Budden are a minor cost, not even leading to an arrest. A cost Mr. Budden is trying ahead to beating in court docket 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 individual cost on the police web site this yr. His option to single out Mr. Budden in our opinion is self motivated and primarily based off of Mr. Budden’s race and movie star 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 instructed his co-hosts. “You know the way I sleep — buttass. Good nakedass. Good bare sleepwalking. I simply did it once more.”