‘Scrubs’ producer Eric Weinberg again in jail after decide revokes $5M bail

Hollywood producer Eric Weinberg was taken into custody Tuesday after a decide revoked his bail in his sexual assault trial.

The Emmy-nominated writer-producer — whose credit embody “Scrubs,” “Californication” and “Politically Incorrect” — was initially arrested on July 14 at his Los Angeles house for “a number of sexual assaults together with rape,” the Los Angeles Police Division mentioned in a information launch.

He was launched on a $3.32 million bond in July after which arrested once more on Oct. 4 on a number of felony sexual assault fees — together with rape, oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration, sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment by use of violence, assault via power more likely to trigger nice bodily harm, and tried forcible penetration with a overseas object.

He was launched later that day on a $5 million bond.

On Tuesday, at a courthouse in downtown Los Angeles., Weinberg pleaded not responsible to 18 fees of sexual assault.

However Superior Courtroom Choose Victoria B. Wilson agreed with prosecutors that the 62-year-old remained a possible hazard to society and introduced that he could be held with out bail till his subsequent courtroom look, on Nov. 15, based on The Hollywood Reporter.

Calling Weinberg a possible “serial rapist” and describing his conduct as “brazen and predatory,” Wilson mentioned that he had “engaged in a sample of violence for not less than six years,” based on Deadline.

“He’s a hazard to society,” Deputy District Lawyer Marlene Martinez instructed the courtroom.

“He goes as much as any younger lady and makes use of his standing as a writer-producer to lure them in,” Martinez continued, including that he’s “a hazard to all females.”

Though Weinberg has been charged for alleged assaults that passed off between 2014 and 2019, investigators imagine that there are seemingly extra victims of comparable crimes relationship again to the Nineteen Nineties. Earlier this month, District Lawyer George Gascón urged these victims to return ahead.

After the decide introduced her resolution, deputies handcuffed Weinberg and led him out of the courtroom. He can be held at Twin Towers jail till his subsequent courtroom listening to.

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