Chad Michael Busto: ‘Stalker’ who barged into dressing room and yelled ‘I need to marry Emma Watson’ arrested
A person accused of repeatedly stalking celebrities has been arrested for barging right into a dressing room at a New York City vogue present and screaming that he needed to marry Emma Watson, police say.
Chad Michael Busto, who was arrested final month after makes an attempt to strategy Drew Barrymore, pleaded not responsible to legal trespass and disorderly conduct costs within the incident, which happened final week on the Ralph Lauren present on the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The 43-year-old was launched with out bail. He will subsequent seem in court docket on 2 October.
According to prosecutors, Busto entered the style present dressing room final Friday night time and screamed: “I need to marry Emma Watson. Let me communicate to Emma Watson. Let me take a photograph with Emma Watson.”
Busto, who didn’t have permission to be on the vogue present, turned irate when he was requested to go away and refused to take action, in response to authorities.
It is not clear if Watson – finest identified for enjoying Hermione Granger in Harry Potter – was on the vogue present. Other stars to have attended that day embrace Jennifer Lopez, Julianne Moore and James Marsden.
Last month, Busto was arrested in Southampton Town on Long Island after police obtained reviews he was driving his bicycle up and down personal driveways, trying to find Barrymore.
Days earlier than, he had interrupted an on-stage interview in Manhattan the place Barrymore was interviewing singer and actor Renee Rapp.
Busto had approached the stage shouting: “Drew Barrymore! “My identify is Chad Michael Busto. You know who I’m. I have to see you in some unspecified time in the future when you’re in New York, okay?”
Barrymore went on to go away the stage safely with Rapp, whereas safety guards escorted Busto out of the theatre.
Last week, after Busto failed to indicate as much as be fitted for a court-ordered GPS tag, a Southampton choose issued a warrant for his arrest.
Busto, who’s been linked to addresses of shelters and church ministries in California and Washington DC, has a historical past of arrests and strange behaviour. His report contains prior arrests for trespassing, disorderly conduct and indecent publicity.
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In a handwritten lawsuit final 12 months, Busto claimed he’d been granted possession of the Hilton accommodations chain. That case was swiftly dismissed.
Other lawsuits underneath Busto’s identify embrace one searching for to problem the jail sentences of all legal defendants in “all prisons on Planet Earth”.
In a 2021 court docket submitting, Busto wrote that he was “Born by Force” and that his dad and mom are “More Guilty for My Entire Existence as Two Humans Than the One (Sort of) Human I am Generally Considered to Be!”
Another Busto court docket submitting consisted principally of Pokemon playing cards.