Actor Rudy Youngblood has been arrested for alleged assault in Texas – less than a year after another run-in with the law in Greece.
Belton police officers took Rudy Youngblood into custody early Tuesday morning after a warrant for his arrest had been issued for allegedly ‘assaulting a family or household member by impeding their breathing or circulation’, according to TMZ.
The warrant came to the attention of authorities after an officer stopped to speak with the owner of a vehicle that had been parked close to a Lake Belton boat ramp at around 12.20AM, authorities told the website.
Cops claim a white crystalline substance was also found on Rudy Youngblood at the time of the arrest.
Rudy Youngblood, who starred in Mel Gibson’s 2006 action film Apocalypto, is facing a charge of ‘assault on a fam/house mem impede breath/circulat’ – a third degree felony, according to the Bell County Inmate inquiry portal.
Additional charges are now possible depending on lab results, according to TMZ. His bond has been set to $20,000 and he is still being held
He was booked at 1.43AM on Tuesday at the Belton Police Department.
The latest news comes less than a year after Youngblood was released from a jail in Athens, Greece jail following a confrontation with police officers.
Youngblood was stopped for allegedly being intoxicated and threatening officers with a knife in the early hours of December 27th, as per Greek publication To Vima .
The altercation took place following a routine police check outside an Athens-area precinct, and Youngblood claims that officers were not wearing identifying insignia and did not explain his rights.
The Texas native was charged with resisting arrest, making threats and carrying a weapon, as he was found in possession of a pocketknife.
He was swiftly sentenced to 10 months in prison with a suspended sentence following his arrest, but was not released because his visa had expired, prompting a deportation order. He then successfully appealed his deportation and was granted permission to leave Greece voluntarily.
Texas-born Rudy played tribesman Jaguar Paw in Gibson’s 2006 film Apocalypto, who is forced to flee as Mayan civilization is about to end.
Youngblood also had another brush with the law in 2017, after he was arrested for allegedly being drunk and disorderly in a casino. He was charged with disorderly intoxication, but the charge was later dropped, sources told TMZ at the time.
The film, which was spoken in Mayan dialect, was a box office hit, grossing over $120million worldwide.
Speaking about working with Mel in a People magazine interview in 2006, Rudy said: ‘Mel is a great guy – very smart. We automatically clicked and came together.’
‘He would look at me, and I knew what he wanted. He helped me a lot because this was my first film.’
Youngblood most recently appeared in the 2023 horror The Haunting of Hell Hole Mine.
His other credits also include Dandelion Season (2021), Hell on the Border (2019), Wind Walkers (2015), and Beatdown (2010).