DICK RELEASED ON BAIL
Troubled comedian ANDY DICK has been released on $60,000 (=C2=A337,500) b= ail following his arrest on sex charges on Saturday (23Jan10).
The Road Trip star was detained in Huntington, West Virginia in the ear= ly hours of Saturday morning and arraigned later that day on two counts o= f felony sexual abuse.
Dick was in the state to perform three dates over the weekend (22-24Jan= 10) at the Funny Bone comedy club and restaurant in Huntington - and the = manager of venue, Tom Schaeffer, has confirmed he paid the comic’s bail.
The charges relate to Dick’s evening out at Huntington’s Rum Runners ba= r after he allegedly grabbed a security guard=E2=80=99s crotch. He is als= o facing allegations he kissed a male bar-goer without invitation.
Dick, who is currently on three years’ probation after pleading guilty = to drug possession and battery in October 2008, is due back in court on 2= February (10).
The star’s lawyer tells TMZ.com his client "is stunned by these allegat= ions" and he is "strongly denying any criminal conduct."
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