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Village People Cop Pleas for Treatment
Jail is probably less fun than staying at the Y.M.C.A.
Victor Willis, the first man to don the cop's uniform for '70's-era hit-makers The Village People, pleaded no contest Wednesday in San Mateo County Superior Court to a drug charge resulting from a Mar. 26 arrest for cocaine possession. He could face either time in a drug-treatment program and six months in county jail (including time already served), or two years in state prison.
When Willis and the female companion he was riding with were pulled over in San Francisco during a routine traffic stop, police found bags of coke in the car. The duo didn't make matters any easier when they tried to give fake names to the arresting office.
Per the plea agreement, however, two of the counts against Willis were dropped.
The former disco titan is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 1.
"We're hopeful that the judge will opt for the treatment program," Willis' attorney, Mark Geragos, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "[Willis] wants to get these problems addressed. He's very much committed to treatment."
Willis, 54, was already under the gun when he was nabbed in March, as there was a warrant issued for his arrest from him skipping out on an October sentencing hearing. He had been collared on July 11, 2005, after another routine traffic stop gone wrong uncovered crack cocaine, drug paraphernalia and a loaded gun in his car. He was booked on six felony counts and released on $100,000 bail. He remained free until he got picked up in March.
The plea deal he was supposed to have agreed to in October would have guaranteed him no more than 16 months in the slammer.
To help while away the hours in custody, Willis has been receiving substance-abuse counseling, presumably hoping to get his life back on track.
"If you take a look at all these cases, substance abuse is at their root," Geragos said. "You don't have to be a veteran of the legal system to see that."
Willis said in a statement on his Website that he was sober for the first time in 25 years and was sorry for the "excesses of the disco era that many artists like me found difficult to shake almost 30 years later.
"I look forward to being released soon into a residential treatment program that will assure my continued sobriety [to] which I'm fully committed. Simply put, by the grace of god, I made it out of this thing alive and still physically fit and healthy. I look forward to enjoying the second half of my life, drug-free."
The singer also stated that he's planning to release a book about his life in January of 2007 and embark on a summer tour next year.
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