Scott Siegel is being held in custody without bail on drug dealing, as well as attack charges after police seized approximately 1,500 bottles believed to enclose steroids.

The containers and thousands of dollars in cash were discovered during police investigations of the actor’s home and his parents’ residence.

 

Scott Siegel was detained following an extensive chase that involved his car and numerous police vehicles, just a few days before the Academy Awards ceremony, at which “The Wrestler” star Mickey Rourke is nominated for best actor.

 

In the movie, Scott Siegel plays a steroid dealer that hangs out in the same gym where Mickey Rourke’s character, an out of the frame wrestler, exercises.

 

The 34-year-old actor was under police surveillance on Wednesday night when undercover officials spotted him getting out of a vehicle not far from his parents’ home in Westchester County. After observing the officers, who were inside an unmarked car, Scott Siegel fled from the scene, but when he came back, several police cars advanced on his vehicle.

 

Throughout the subsequent car chase, the actor shattered an enclosure and “apparently intentionally” crashed into three police cars and a couple of Drug Enforcement Agency vehicles, consistent with information offered by court papers.

 

In addition, he drove at a police officer who was under his own steam “in an apparent attempt to run him over,” the papers explained.

 

Officers managed to arrest him when he tried to flee on foot. Scott Siegel was charged in court in White Plains, New York, on Thursday.