Joe Budden has been hit with lewdness charges after he was reportedly captured on a neighbor’s Ring footage naked in their front door.
The occurrence happened on the morning of December 4 according to Edgewater Police Department.
Edgewater police responded to the scene after receiving a call from a neighbor who claimed they captured Ring footage of a man standing outside their door completely naked.
The neighbor told police that the video showed the man, who he identified as Budden, attempting to enter a code on the keypad of his front door, according to TMZ.
However, after several failed attempts, Budden allegedly walks back to his apartment located across the hall in the same building.
The neighbor said he and his two juvenile daughters observed the rapper, born Joseph Budden Jr., committing the act live on their smartphones, the complaint read.
Budden was charged with lewdness, a disorderly persons offense, on a complaint summons. He’s due back in court on Jan. 16 at 3 p.m. ET.
“These charges are merely accusations,” chief of police Donald A. Martin noted in the press release. “The defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Budden’s attorney, Nima Ameri slammed the EPD in a statement to TMZ.
“Mr. Budden is saddened by Police Chief Martin’s press release. Mr. Budden has been waiting weeks for his cross complaints to be processed which include substantially more serious charges include possible felony charges against the persons behind these charges against him,” she wrote. “The Chief has in our opinion sat on those but instead used his time to gain some free publicity for himself. Chief Martin should seek publicity by doing notable policing not inflaming disorderly person allegations.”
Budden announced on his Joe Budden Podcast earlier this month that he had to take time off.
“I just slept walk somewhere that I shouldn’t have slept walk,” he told his co-hosts at around the 18:10 minute mark. Everyone paused and laughed before he said, “That’s what happened. And you know how I sleep … butt ass [naked]. … Good naked sleepwalking. I just did it again.”