The actor who plays Pee-wee Herman tried to avoid arrest on indecent exposure charges by offering to perform a children's benefit for the local sheriff's office, a police report says.
Paul Reubens' attorney made the same offer to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune if the newspaper agreed not to publish a story on the arrest, according to the report released Friday. The newspaper refused.The attorney, Dan Dannheisser, has said he plans to withdraw from the case. Reubens, 38, was in town visiting his parents when he was arrested July 26 for exposing himself at an adult theater. He has denied wrongdoing and is scheduled to be arraigned Friday.
Detectives didn't recognize Reubens, whose long hair made him different in appearance from his Pee-wee television character, Sarasota County Sheriff's officials said.
Reubens told them he was Pee-wee Herman, the report said.
"The subject then suggested that maybe he could do a charity benefit for the sheriff's office or something to take care of this," the report said.