Wrestling's Dumbest Criminals

Wrestlers and police officers are pretty much chained at the cuff. Throughout the years, so many superstars have ended up in the slammer (and not just because of a stipulation, as in the poor Mountie's case), usually for relatively minor offences resulting from the toxic - frequently intoxicated - combination of a gruelling life on the road and the infamous 'wrestlers' lifestyle'.

Indeed, wrestlers are just as likely to hit front-page headlines as they are front headlocks. On some occasions, it has been for utterly grim reasons. Those instances are not our concern here.

Instead, we're interested in grapplers who laid down for the law as a result of their own idiocy. Unless you're Nailz, carrying a burden of totally justified burning resentment, beating on a cop - or thirteen - is never a good idea. Nor is running over one's foot.

Heck, even making reference to the rozzers has been enough to land at least one unfortunately misheard bone-bender in hot water with the fuzz.

The crimes you are about to see are true. Even the names haven't been changed to protect the ignorant.

Psicosis crashed the metaphorical lawnmower that was his WWE career straight into an ornamental koi pond in 2006, by doing something pretty similar with an actual vehicle.

On the evening of 1 November 2006, Psicosis - real name Dionicio Castellanos Torres - asked to 'borrow' a black Mitsubishi from Alexander Valencia Ramirez, promising he'd return it later on. When the bemused Ramirez refused, the lucha libre whipped out a towel-shrouded gun and took the car by force.

Police set up barriers around the roads of Rosarito after Castellanos hightailed it instead of accepting apprehension. A high-speed chase with the high-flyer soon ensued, during which the careering cruiserweight smashed into several stationary vehicles.

Wait, go back a bit... why was he carrying a gun wrapped in a towel? Did he have a leaky firearm? As it happens, yes; Psicosis had held the man up with a water pistol. Talk about a wet bandit. Not surprisingly, he lost his WWE job almost immediately after his arrest.