Michael Tomson has been arrested on suspicion of dealing a little blow. Little, by '80s standards, of course.
Do you remember the clothing label Gotcha? Sure you do, at least if you’re over 25. At its nineties peak it was doing $125 million in sales.
Fish with the flag, Pottz rode for them, Machado milked its formidable teats before jumping ship to Hurley. That Gotcha.
Well, police this morning charged its co-founder and Bustin’ Down the Door star, Michael Tomson, “with felony possession of narcotics for sale after conducting a 7 a.m. probation check at his home in the 21000 block of Mar Vista Avenue,” reports the Laguna Beach Indy.
“A scale, baggies used to package cocaine for sale and 52 grams of cocaine were seized, said Sgt. Tim Kleiser. While the new charges carry a $25,000 bail, Tomson’s probation officer placed a hold on him due to the new arrest, Kleiser said. In 2013, Tomson was charged with two felony DUI counts, and suspicion of cocaine possession, following an early-morning traffic accident in Laguna Beach.”
According to the Encyclopedia of Surfing, “Tomson suffered a perforated stomach ulcer in 1996 and nearly died. Other health problems followed. He had semiregular run-ins with the law in the ’00s, including a morning car accident in 2013 in which the 58-year-old Tomson was charged with two felony DUI counts, and suspicion of cocaine possession.”
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Selling blow is a community service in bored-out-of-their-brains towns like Laguna. Give him a medal.
There are some that may say he was the catalyst for the eventual demise and untimely death of a former world champion, a party loving surfing rebel he is not you know as Rottmouth liked to say ‘More Coke Division”. And his felony DUI charges relate to an accident where he hurt someone, nothing to celebrate here folks.
Whats Rottmouth up to these days?
Isn’t he attached to Rusty now?
He owns Rusty or a larger percentage, Rusty has been swapping the pocket moisture satchels with cocaine satchels.