The Village People have a lot to answer for: the way that we’ve never been to a wedding reception where we haven’t been forced to do the YMCA dance against our will, for a start.
But – as grating as as it is to stand in a room with a bunch of people who think that forming the letter C with their arms is the height of cutting-edge comedy – that’s not the worst thing that one of The Village People faces. Victor Willis – the original policeman – has been arrested for drug possession and giving false identification to a police officer. Apparently he told the cop that he was the Red Indian. Still, we hear it’s fun to stay in the J-A-I-L.
We’ve got a ton of these, seriously.
The list of crimes committed by The Village People (CDs) is mostly limited
to minor fashion offences and, in the case of 1978 single Sodom And
Gomorrah, the charge of setting biblical tales to an irresistibly funky disco soundtrack. But now Victor Willis,
the policeman from The Village People, has been arrested for an actual
crime.
Victor Willis – who left The Village People in 1980, thereby
avoiding having to do the 1994 German World Cup song – had been on the
run from the police for five months after skipping the sentencing for
gun and cocaine possession last year. But Willis’s fugitive days were numbered
when he was pulled over in a routine traffic stop by a San Francisco
police officer on Sunday with passenger Staci Brandt.
Unfortunately for Victor Willis, the police officer apparently found
cocaine and drugs paraphernalia in the car, arrested him and – although
Willis was said to have given the arresting officer a false name – he
was later identified through fingerprints. Victor Willis pleaded not
guilty to the charges, and will return to court on April 10.
Following his bail-jumping, Willis now faces four years and four months in jail – the second-harshest sentence available, after being made to watch 1980 Village People movie Can’t Stop The Music six times in a row.
Read more:
Former Village People Cop Is Arrested – ABC
[story by Stuart Heritage]