{"id":241659,"date":"2026-03-29T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241659\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T03:20:10","slug":"trump-star-vandal-arrested-at-west-hollywood-no-king-protest-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/241659\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump star vandal arrested at West Hollywood \u2018No King\u2019 protest \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man was arrested for blocking an heavily traveled intersection in West Hollywood Saturday during a “No Kings” protest, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The man, carrying a large American flag, was standing in the middle of the intersection between Santa Monica and San Vincente boulevards at around 2:45 p.m., officials from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department West Hollywood station said. <\/p>\n

Despite being asked to leave multiple times, her refused, and deputies arrested him, the sheriff’s department said. <\/p>\n

The man was identified as 62-year-old James Lambert Otis.<\/p>\n

Otis has been on law enforcement’s radar since 2016<\/a> when he was arrested for vandalizing President Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. <\/p>\n

Otis was arrested again in 2020<\/a> for the same offense. <\/p>\n

For allegedly blocking the West Hollywood intersection, Otis was arrested for obstructing\/delaying a peace officer, obstructing traffic and being a pedestrian in the roadway.<\/p>\n

Otis was expected to be cited on the three charges and released from custody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested for blocking an heavily traveled intersection in West Hollywood Saturday during a “No Kings”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,655],"class_list":["post-241659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-west-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}