A sleazebag Hollywood actor allegedly used bogus ‘casting calls’ to lure teenage ladies earlier than sexually abusing them.
Accused sicko Shane Ryan Gledhill, 46, of Lompoc, was lastly picked up Tuesday by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Workplace after a five-year investigation that produced 15 felony intercourse abuse prices towards the creep, cops stated.
Gledhill has constructed a prolonged Hollywood resume, showing in roughly 120 movies and producing greater than 150 initiatives that includes big-name stars together with Shelley Duvall, Richard Dreyfuss, Ed Harris and Tom Arnold, in keeping with his IMDb web page.
The actor cultivated an edgy persona, claiming “he realized that he might have an effect with film-making with regard to points like little one abuse and sexual assault, in an effort to carry consciousness and understanding to essential matters by means of cinema.”
However investigators say the alleged predator weaponized these Hollywood credentials, utilizing on-line casting calls and unbiased filmmaking initiatives to focus on younger ladies.
Investigators started their probe into the cinematic scum in 2021 after a 17-year-old lady contacted cops with a report of suspicious and inappropriate conduct involving Gledhill when she was 15-years-old.
As detectives continued their work, they recognized two extra survivors of Gledhill’s alleged abuse.
Armed with the testimony of these three victims, cops in 2022 searched Gledhill’s house on Courtney Drive in Lompoc, the place they seized hundreds of digital recordsdata that had been subsequently examined by means of an intensive digital forensic investigation.
Over the course of that investigation, detectives uncovered 9 victims, all of whom had been minors on the time of the alleged offenses. That’s when cops realized Gledhill contacted most of the ladies by means of on-line casting calls and filmmaking initiatives.
After constructing their case, sheriff’s detectives lastly pounced on Gledhill at his Lompoc house. He’s now being held on $500,000 bail.
Gledhill faces 15 felony prices together with little one molestation, rape, forcible sexual assault, contacting a minor with the intent to commit a sexual offense, possession of kid sexual abuse materials and offering dangerous matter to a minor.
Detectives hope his mugshot will assist extra survivors and witnesses acknowledge him and are available ahead.
The accused perv maintained a busy on-line presence with the usage of a slew of handles @madsincinema, @talkhardcinema, @shaneryanreid, @shaneryanreidfilms, cops stated.
They consider Gledhill’s legal actions might have spanned 25 years, with victims from California’s Central Coast, LA and probably the East Coast by means of his filmmaking and casting actions.
Gledhill claims in his on-line biography that he lives a “straight-edge life-style” and has labored with an unlimited community of stars, together with a dozens of actors and well-known musicians together with Coolio, ‘Bizarre Al’ Yankovic and Slipknot singer Corey Taylor.
He had a penchant for making smut, “which precipitated him to grow to be a controversial determine in his hometown when he started making violent movies involving tales of sexual abuse,” in keeping with an IMDB bio.
Academy Award nominated actress Lesley Ann Warren was so outraged by the promotional supplies for certainly one of Gledhill’s movies that she efficiently argued that his promotions be banned, his bio says.
He tried to make a film about human trafficking and the Stockholm Syndrome however encountered public pushback and pivoted to provide an apologetic movie about convicted homicide Alyssa Bustamante, who killed her nine-year-old neighbor at age 15.
Gledhill’s brother is producer Jeremy Williams, who made at the very least one movie starring his accused intercourse predator sibling.
