The actor best known for playing the character Screech in the ’90s sitcom “Saved by the Bell” was arrested Thursday on charges that he stabbed a man with a knife during a fight at a Wisconsin bar, police said.
Dustin Diamond, 37, appeared in court Friday on a charge of second-degree recklessly endangering safety, a felony, as well as misdemeanor charges of carrying a concealed weapon and disorderly conduct, and a judge set his bail at $10,000, according to court records.
Police said Diamond stabbed a man during an altercation at the Grand Avenue Saloon in Port Washington at around 11:15 p.m., and then he and his fiancée fled in a white sport-utility vehicle. Diamond and his fiancée, Amanda Schutz, were taken into custody a short time later, and police said they found a folding knife with a 3.75-inch blade inside the vehicle with what appeared to be blood on it.
The victim suffered a stab wound to his right armpit, but police said the wound was not life threatening and he was recovering at home Friday.
When police caught up to the SUV, Diamond initially told the officer he had a “pen” in his hand but later admitted it was a knife, according to the criminal complaint. Diamond, who lives in Port Washington, told the officer he accidentally stabbed the man while trying to protect Schutz during a heated confrontation at the bar, according to the complaint. Other witnesses told police the fight broke out after Diamond’s fiancée got upset over people taking pictures, the complaint said.
Diamond’s agent, Roger Paul, declined to comment. A person who picked up the phone at the Grand Avenue Saloon said Diamond is not a regular at the bar. Schutz, 27, was charged with disorderly conduct.
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Apparently in the foggy haze of egg nog and family drama, my Crew and I missed perhaps the greatest news event that has happened during this blessed Christmas season; Screech went out and stabbed a Mo Fo! I mean, I get it, any member of the Saved by the Bell cast has every right to go on a killing spree for their lackluster success since the show discontinued nearly two decades ago, but I never saw Screech as the assailant.
If we were playing CLUE, Screech would not be the guy I found in the library (Wisconsin ‘saloon’) with the Candle Stick (3.75-inch knife!) wrecking house…or would I?
Let’s place the gang from Bayside HS in a police lineup and grade them…. (an A being highest likelihood to stab someone in a midwest bar and F being the least likely)
Zach Morris
Outside of like 10 quasi-shitty episodes of NYPD Blue, Mark Paul (never trust a guy with 2 first names) Gosseler has done nothing with his career. You would think that handsome bastard could have at least transitioned to a B-rate star making Skinemax ‘Lornos’ (light + porno= lorno). I can easily see him stabbing dudes in bars after hitting on and picking up their girlfriends…. after buying some $1.00 Mens Room cologne….with a stolen debit card.
GRADE: C
AC Slater
Mario Lopez has actually (vomit surfacing in my throat) achieved the most success of these 90s phenoms. Like it or not, AC’s mug is on TV almost every day dishing on all the gossip on Access Hollywood or E or the Who Gives Shit network. He has also slain some serious tail over the years including the ex-Mrs Charlie Sheen, Denise Richards, Dancing With The Stars communist hottie Karina Smirnoff and even had a very short term marriage to that scalding Doritos girl, Ali Landry. The only thing Slater ‘stabs’ is hot ass.
GRADE: F–
Lisa Turtle
Is Lark Voorhies still alive? I just assumed you offed herself years ago when she wasn’t even recognized at the Burger King…she was working at.
GRADE: INCOMPLETE
Kelly Kapowski
Ah, Kelly…the girl we all loved. I thought she had a shot at the big time. After she left Bayview, she reinvented herself. Changed her name to Valerie and went on to become a total slut and torment Dylan McKay across town at Beverly Hills 90210 High School. She was like a rising Phoenix that Tiffany Amber (destined fo the Pole with that name) Thiessen. However, giving 20 year old men erections across ‘Merica is not enough to make it in this racket. To quote Mike Tyson, Kelly has vanished in Bolivion. She is a viable suspect.
GRADE: B+
Mr. Belding
Let’s shift gears to that glue-sniffing principal from Bayview. The guy was always WAY to close to the gang. He was WAY too jolly about his station in life and, quite frankly, he gave me to the creeps. Not to mention, Dennis Haskins (I guess that’s his real name) has done less with his acting career that all of the ‘Bell-ers’ combined. I’d say he could be the stabbing type but my gut tells me he is working at a Friendly’s in rural Pennsylvania under a new name and is teetering on Level 3 status. Mr. B doesn’t have a violent streak – he just loves the children.
GRADE: D
Jesse Spano
So, if you put a 3.75-inch blade to my head, Jesse would be my best guess as to being the type of person that knifes guys in Wisconsin bars on Christmas. Elizabeth Berkeley essentially DID turn to pornography after the ‘Bell (read: Showgirls). Beauty and loose morals are just not enough to convert in this business, but certainly a plausible cocktail to turn to stabbing. After being rejected by that red-headed toolbox on CSI Miami, where is a damaged girl to turn? Jesse has stabber (and likely some various bodily fluids) written all over her face.
GRADE: A-
Screech
Say it ain’t so Dustin Diamond (is he really the Beastie Boys’ Mike D’s brother? Really?)? I realize a life (real and television) of rejection had to reach maximum capacity at some point, but I never thought it would be you. Of couse, after he mercilessly pounded the late, real-life homosexual Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter on Celebrity Boxing, we all knew he had a pension for violence. The writing was on that lockerroom wall at Bayside. I just wish someone acted sooner.
GRADE: He did it.
“It’s alright cause I’m saved by the…
its alright cause I’m saved by the…
its alright cause I’m SAVED BY THE BELL!”
Can I Be Frank & Crew? 