The Los Angeles County district attorney on Monday filed the charges against the singer Ray J Norwood stemming from an incident at a Beverly Hills hotel on May 30.Ray J Norwood has been charged with four misdemeanors in a case in which he’s accused of grabbing a woman’s buttocks, smashing a police car window and spitting on a cop.
The criminal complaint lists four counts: sexual battery, vandalism, resisting arrest and battery. A police spokesman said Norwood’s initial hearing is set for Friday, although he does not have to attend since the charges are misdemeanors.
The vandalism, battery and resisting arrest charges filed by the Los Angeles County district attorney stem from what happened after police arrived at the hotel.
Beverly Hills police arrested him at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on May 30 after a woman complained that he “grabbed her buttocks,” a police reported.
Even though the police initially announced that the contact was incidental, the complaint alleged that it was sexual battery because Ray J did unlawfully touch an intimate part of the woman for the specific purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification and sexual abuse.
“After the uniform police officers took Mr. Norwood into custody and placed him in the rear of a police vehicle, he became belligerent and used his feet to shatter the side window of the police vehicle,” the officer’s statement explained. “Mr. Norwood was subsequently removed from the police vehicle in order to restrain his feet; at which time he became combative and spat into the face of one of the officers.”
