Actor Ray Buffer is dealing with accusations that he swiped comedian books value tons of of dollars from a San Diego retailer that blasted out surveillance footage of the alleged theft.
Southern California Comics pointed the finger at Buffer, who appeared within the hit tv exhibits “ER” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” for allegedly taking greater than $600 value of comics from the shop. A Fb put up exhibits footage of a person contained in the enterprise who seems to take comics by concealing them below his shirt.
Southern California Comics proprietor Jamie Newbold advised The Publish on Sunday that after he put up a photograph of an unidentified man on social media to warn different comedian e book shops in regards to the attainable thief, different companies claimed the person was Buffer.
A Los Angeles comedian enterprise even despatched Newbold footage of one other obvious theft that occurred in its institution displaying the identical individual, he mentioned.
Newbold mentioned the attainable crime in opposition to his retailer occurred final Tuesday and that he filed a police report with San Diego authorities Thursday. He supplied The Publish with a police report quantity and mentioned he hopes the investigation into the incident ramps up this week.
He mentioned no less than six to seven comics have been lacking.
“That is Ray Buffer. Our digicam captured him stealing comics by concealing them in his shirt,” Southern California Comics posted on Fb. “We found the crime and watched the surveillance video till we noticed this. We're sending all the information over to the police.”
One other incident involving the identical man in Metropolis Comics in Los Angeles final month exhibits the co-owner, Alania Rice, confronting the person who seems to have comics tucked below his shirt, in accordance with footage posted by Southern California Comics.
The proprietor orders him to go away, and as she turns her again, the person seems to drag comics from below his shirt and locations them again on a desk earlier than strolling towards the exit, footage exhibits.
Rice confirmed the incident to The Publish Sunday. She additionally believes Buffer is the individual within the footage based mostly on evaluating his look and the sound of his voice off their transient interplay to movies of him on-line.
The San Diego Police Division confirmed to The Publish that a police report was filed in regards to the theft at Southern California Comics. TMZ first reported the allegations.
No costs in opposition to Buffer have been reported.
“We provided him the selection of both returning our property (we all know what he took as a result of an earlier a part of the video has him holding the books) or we flip it over to the legislation. He emailed us and claimed we're harassing him,” Southern California Comics mentioned within the Fb put up.
A number of retailers reportedly reached out to Buffer for remark however obtained no reply.
Buffer had very minor roles in single episodes of a number of tv exhibits, together with “CSI: Miami,” “Gilmore Ladies” and “Chilly Case,” in accordance with his IMDb web page.
Leisure Weekly reported he lately performed an uncredited Russian thug within the film “Bullet Practice” starring Brad Pitt.
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