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Ryan Gosling
Was it a matter of semantics or did Hollywood star Ryan Gosling go too far when he recently told the Los Angeles Times he was arrested in 2011 in Detroit while videotaping the Detroit landscape and being mistaken for a scrapper.
He told the paper he stayed in town after filming "The Ides of March."
"I’m not proud that I was arrested,” the 34-year-old actor told the California daily, “but it did give me one of the central pieces for the main character.”
Now, the Detroit Police Department is saying Gosling was never arrested, according to George Hunter in The Detroit News.
“I ran his name in our system and there’s no CRISNET report with the name ‘Ryan Gosling’ on it,” Assistant Chief Steve Dolunt told the News.
Certainly there's a legal difference between arrested and detained.
But it's not as if Gosling created the arrest story out of thin air or pulled a Brian Williams.
Detroit 36th District Court records show he was ticketed Aug. 29, 2012, for entering the abandoned Carstens Elementary School on Coplin Street on the city’s east side, The News reports.
He was ticketed at 10:15 a.m. by officer Ronald Hendon and charged with entering a vacant building without written authorization.
The actor would have been detained while police issued the ticket and likely checked his name for outstanding warrants or other red flags, as with a traffic stop.
The infraction is a violation of a city ordinance punishable by up to 30 days in jail or a $50 fine, Hunter writes.
Gosling retained attorney James Thomas, who later went on to represent Kwame Kilpatrick in his public corruption trial.
The News reports that Gosling pleaded not guilty before District Judge William McConico, who set bond at $500. The case was later dismissed for “no probable cause.”
Deadline Detroit left a message with Thomas, who did not immediately return the call.
