Jim Neidhart arrest update: More details come out as the story goes mainstream, plus a look at his past legal issues

Thanks to the wonders of the mainstream media, more details have come out about Jim Neidhart's arrest yesterday afternoon since Geno's post last night.  According to the Tampa Tribune and WTSP:

• Shortly before 3 PM local time he was pumping gas, and "when he began yelling and causing a disturbance," police were called.
• He was spotted opening pill bottles in the back of his car.
• When the cops arrived, "he was agitated and aggressive" and according to the arrest report, he was "ingesting multiple pills that he dropped on the ground while inside the trunk of his vehicle."
• The pill bottles contained 55.6 grams (95 pills) of Oxycontin and 17.4 grams (28 pills) of methadone.
• The pills were prescribed to Mary Cutillo, a friend of Neidhart's who had reported that they had been stolen when her house was broken in to.
• He made a court appearance this morning where his bond was set at $138,500.

Neidhart has had other legal issues in the past.  In January of 1987, he was on a flight from Tampa to Pittsburgh when he was charged with punching a female flight attendant who worked for U.S. Air.  He swore that he never touched her, and was acquitted a few months later.  Vince McMahon then loaned him the money to sue the airline with the best lawyer he could find: Future Senator Rick Santorum, who procured a $380,000 settlement at the end of 1991, netting him a gig as a lobbyist for the WWF.  Neidhart never paid McMahon back, and he was fired for it.  When Neidhart was fired, he went looking for Joe "Jay Strongbow" Scarpa, found him, and putting his experience as a shot putter to use, threw a TV monitor at his head.  He ducked and it hit one of the TV directors in the leg, so Neidhart jumped in his car and sped out of the parking lot.  He spent the money quickly on various excesses and for awhile he carried around what was left of it in cash in a fanny pack.  Not long after that, it was all gone.

In 2005, he and then-wife Ellie Neidhart (nee Hart) were sued by a Calgary businessman who alleged that they stolen $9,000 worth of jewelry and pawned it.  The lawsuit was dropped a few months later, with Jim telling the Calgary Sun that it was a "misunderstanding between good friends" as he, his wife, and the businessman's wife pawned the jewelry to buy a car engine with the intent of buying the items back later.  He told the paper that "I'm not the Pink Panther, a thief and a liar."