Steven Seagal Sued For Killing Puppy, 'Overkill' Arrest On Reality Show 'Lawman'

Steven Seagal is now under siege for allegedly acting above the law -- and we're not just throwing around his movie titles.

The 59-year-old action movie star was slapped with a lawsuit this week after using a tank to knock down an Arizona man's wall and arrest him, while starring as a deputy for a reality TV show.

When the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office suspected that Jesus Llovera was raising roosters for cockfighting, deputies sent in a SWAT team, a bomb robot and a tank.

Llovera, on probation for a previous cockfighting charge, was surprised when he woke up to a tank demolishing his wall, and even more surprised to see that the driver was Seagal, the Arizona Republic reported.

"I looked up and saw his face," Llovera, 43, told the paper. "It was strange."

Seagal's camp was filming the melee and Llovera's arrest for "Steven Seagal: Lawman." Now Llovera is trying to get some lethal justice (sorry for all the movie references) by suing both the sheriff and the actor for unspecified damages.

Llovera says his 11-month-old hound was shot to death in the arrest, which he claims was made just to boost the show's ratings.

"At the end of it, I realized it was a show," Llovera told the paper. "What they showed up for was to make a show, and they made one."

See Steven Seagal on set at Llovera's home in the video below.

The sheriff's office maintains that the arrest would have been made with or without the camouflage-clad Seagal.

Robert Campos, Llovera's attorney says it was "still overkill, and that's the whole point" of the lawsuit.

That episode of "Lawman" was scheduled to premiere in January on the A&E network, but the season was pulled and erased from the channel's website.

Comments

[gx5000]

12:22 PM on 03/12/2012

Idiocracy, the Film, not meant to become a documentary !

What's next ? Ow my Balls ? (oh look, you tube.....)

[outasite]

07:01 AM on 03/12/2012

Wanabe tough guy trying to be the macho man on screen, a bully hiding behind law enforcement.

[92102]

01:56 AM on 03/12/2012

Great job! Kill a puppy to prevent someone from killing a chicken.

[bluesdog1]

08:19 AM on 03/11/2012

Steven S is a joke anymore. He is head is as fat as the rest of his body. He needs to turn in his badge. He is giving law inforcement a worse name than it already has. All for the sake of the all mighty ratings.

[AWL]

03:44 AM on 03/11/2012

"People all over the world recognize me as a spiritual leader." - Steven Seagal

[kareemachan]

04:17 PM on 03/10/2012

Over-the-hill actor plus over-the-hill sheriff equals mind-numbingly baka behavior.

[stymie500r]

11:49 AM on 03/10/2012

I hate to have to comment on something in Sherrif Joe's county since I personally like his efforts, style, and convictions but really now...Steven Segal law man....shooting dogs, re-arresting cockfighters on probation, causing property damage, drawing law suites. Can't they send his butt down to the border and let him act tough there instead of pulling this garbage.

[feed the enemy]

09:21 PM on 03/09/2012

Shooting a puppy. Really, Stevie? How low. If the man was guilty for cock fighting take him to jail. That is what the police are for, not z list actors and criminal sheriffs. Wait, no - kill an innocent puppy! Now what - BFFs Arpeo and Segal go off to shoot animals at Ted Nugent's canned hunt farms?

[Sorenson]

09:12 PM on 03/09/2012

Oh, joy, it's time again for Arizona to waste money on fighting ANOTHER lawsuit because of Sherrif Joe. At this point, wouldn't it be cheaper to just let someone SHOOT HIM?

[AgainstAnimalAbuse]

01:51 PM on 03/09/2012

I don't care about any of this except that they killed a dog? And this article should be more about that, not politics or stupid movie stars!

[ntersmikem]

01:09 PM on 03/09/2012

THATS NOT A TANK

[gx5000]

12:26 PM on 03/12/2012

It's no Moon either !
But I watched the footage and you can't expect the public to be able to distinguish between
a Tank, APC or whatever that vehicle is designated as...a PAV ?

[ntersmikem]

12:40 PM on 03/12/2012

I didnt expect the public to know what the vehicle is, I did expect the media to know about what they are covering, thats it,

[tlee47ftw]

01:02 PM on 03/09/2012

I hope Llovera wins and puts Maricopa county in bankruptcy and put Seagal and "Sheriff Joe" both in jail. Law enforcement is no reality show. It's no game.

[Prankster]

12:25 PM on 03/09/2012

Steven Seagal is nothing but a thug! The only time he feels good is when he is bullying someone. Check out the suits by some of his movie stunt men and co-stars!

[robin briano]

12:04 PM on 03/09/2012

Arpaio, Always the Attention Lore.

The American sick version of Benny Hill.

[Katsilva]

12:02 PM on 03/09/2012

let"s not be so hard on mister segal, he was not fully briefed,all he was told by joe was " come on steve, let's go see a man about cockfighting" steve did't know, it could have been worse, we could be reading about him suffucating couse he wrapped hiself in a comdoum!!!!!!!!!! now that would be a show i would watch