A New Jersey judge has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of actor Jason Mewes, the 27-year-old star of" Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back," after he failed to show last month at a probation violation hearing. As TSG first reported a few months back, the December 14 court appearance was scheduled by Monmouth County law enforcement officials after Mewes did not attend required meetings with his probation officer (um,there seems to be a pattern developing here). Following a February 2000 plea to a felony heroin possession charge, Mewes, who has starred as a hilarious stoner/slacker in several of director Kevin Smith's films, was sentenced to two years probation and ordered to undergo substance abuse counseling and submit to random urine testing. On December 14, Judge Michael D. Farren was joined in his Freehold courtroom by Monmouth County prosecutor Sean Brennan and a representative from the probation department. But neither Mewes nor a lawyer for the actor appeared--though the violation of probation (VOP) hearing date had been set four months earlier. Farren then signed this bench warrant, which remains active until Mewes is either picked up or surrenders himself, said William Guidry, Monmouth's deputy first assistant prosecutor. (1 page)
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