Moment police stop Gary Busey from leaving convention after he was accused of inappropriate touching

New Jersey police have released body camera footage showing the moment at least two officers stopped actor Gary Busey from leaving a convention after he was accused of groping at least three women.

Much of the video has been redacted and does not include information about what he told the Cherry Hill police.

But the Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the 78-year-old actor could be heard and seen in the two-minute, 15-second body camera footage from August 14 at around 8pm as he walks toward a black SUV parked outside the DoubleTree hotel where the Monster Mania convention was held.

One of the officers in the video asks The Buddy Holly Story actor, ‘How do I get a hold of you?’ to which Busey asks: ‘For what reason?’

The video is then muted for a short duration, and when the audio picks up Busey and the officer are simply talking about the weather in California, where the actor lives.

It is then muted again, after which the unnamed officer asks Busey: ‘You still have my card, right?’

Busey then pulls out his wallet and takes something out, to which the officer replies: ‘Yep that’s me.’

The cop then shakes Busey’s hand and says: ‘Take care. Have a safe trip.’

The video seems to have been taken after Busey was interviewed by cops, and another nearly half-hour video that the Cherry Hill Police Department released on Wednesday titled Gary Busey Interview is completely blurred and muted.

Police have said they blurred those clips because they are part of an ongoing investigation, according to NBC 10 Philadelphia. 

Busey is accused of groping two women’s buttocks during a photo shoot at the Monster Mania convention in Cherry Hill and trying to unhook another victim’s bra, allegedly asking that woman ‘where she got them.’ 

He now faces charges including two counts of criminal sexual contact, one count of criminal attempt/criminal sexual contact and one count of harassment. 

Busey, though, has denied all of the allegations made against him, saying the women who have come forward to accuse him of inappropriate touching ‘made up the story.’ 

But a police affidavit says Busey asked detectives to apologize to two of his victims and talk them out of pressing charges.

It states that those two victims were taking pictures with Busey in a photoshoot area of the event when the actor ‘placed his face near one of the victim’s breasts and asked her where she got them, before attempting to unlatch her bra strap.’

The other woman claimed Busey grabbed her buttocks, along with a third victim who claimed the same thing, and who made her allegations later on. 

Detectives said after they contacted Busey, he claimed ‘that sometimes it is possible to accidentally touch someone in a specific body part.’

At the convention, Busey was said to be appearing alongside other actors including Ralph Macchio, Tom Skerritt and Veronica Cartwright.

A lawyer for the convention, Nikitas Moustakas, said the convention company was ‘assisting authorities in their investigation into an alleged incident involving attendees and a celebrity guest at its convention.’

‘Immediately upon receiving a complaint from the attendees, the celebrity guest was removed from the convention and instructed not to return,’ he said.

‘Monster-Mania also encouraged the attendees to contact the police to file a report. The safety and well-being of all our attendees is of the utmost importance to Monster-Mania, and the company will not tolerate any behavior that could compromise those values.’

 Just a few days later, Busey was later caught with his pants down — literally — as he sat on a Malibu bench with his hand between his legs. 

The actor’s spokesman has claimed that the 78-year-old maybe needed to relieve himself, which was why he was caught on camera with his pants around his ankles, his hands buried in his crotch. 

‘Gary often sits on the bench in front of his home to meditate and look at the ocean,’ said a spokesperson for Busey on Tuesday.

They told Page Six: ‘Our only guess is that perhaps at his age, he realized he couldn’t get to the bathroom in time which explains what happened in the video of him on the bench.’ 

His representative also said Busey was on private property, but he was in full view of the public, wearing a shirt that referenced the 1991 Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves film Point Break, in which he had a supporting role.

The actor was filmed making his way to a bench at the lookout point, where he sat down, pulled out his phone and then pulled down his pants. 

He then stuck one hand down the front of his pants, appeared to clench his jaw and then looked around to make sure no bystanders had caught him in the lewd act. 

‘It was about contact. It was about touching,’ Cherry Hill Police Lt. Robert Scheunemann told the Philadelphia Inquirer following the groping charges, noting that ‘multiple complaints’ about the actor’s conduct had been received throughout the weekend. 

Police have revealed they fully expect to hear from more women in the coming days after an incident in which Busey had to be removed from a portion of the event after he was seen groping women, according to Fox 29. 

Busey is widely known as a character actor, largely in supporting roles, though he came to attention and was nominated for an Oscar for best actor for playing the title role in the 1978 film The Buddy Holly Story. 

His various acting credits include Point Break, Under Siege, Rookie of the Year, Lethal Weapon and Predator 2.

Busey is married to Steffanie Sampson. The couple have been together since 2006 and got hitched in 2008. Together they share a 12-year-old son, Luke.

Busey also has two children from previous relationships – son Jake, 51, and daughter Alectra, 28.

His son said that the 1988 motorbike crash significantly altered his father.

He suffered severe damage to the frontal lobe of his brain as a result of the crash, which made him ‘more impulsive and prone to anger and delusions of grandeur,’ according to a 2019 Hollywood Reporter profile.

‘He was a vegetable in a wheelchair staring at the wall,’ said Jake. 

‘At 17, I had to teach him with my mom to talk, to eat, to feed himself. To walk again. To write. That was very difficult for me at that age.’ 

He added: ‘The post-accident version of him turned his personality up to 11. 

‘I feel like I lost my dad on December 4, 1988.’

The Hollywood Reporter profile detailed his lack of filter, following the accident.

They reported that while being photographed for the magazine, he asked a slim male photo assistant: ‘Did you used to be a woman? You came out great.’ 

He then told a female hairstylist: ‘If you’re not having fun, I have something for you to have fun: I’ll tickle you till you pee.’ 

Busey previously faced drug charges in 1995 when authorities found cocaine during a search of his Malibu home.

He was charged with one count of cocaine possession and three counts of possession of marijuana, possession of hallucinogenic mushrooms and being under the influence of cocaine.

In the past he has also been arrested on charges of spousal abuse.

In 2011, during a season of Celebrity Apprentice, he was accused of sexually assaulting a female employee of the show.

‘We were smoking cigarettes outside, and Busey was standing next to me,’ an employee told the Daily Beast in 2016. 

‘And then at one point, he grabbed me firmly between my legs, and ran his hand up my stomach, and grabbed my breasts.

‘I didn’t know what to do. 

‘So I made this joke that, ‘Oh, I’ve never been sexually harassed by a celebrity before!’ 

‘Then he grabbed my hand and put it [over] his penis, and said, like, ‘I’m just getting started, baby.’