Patrick Clark ( Velveteen Dream ) was arrested in Florida.
from today's pwinsider.com:
Former WWE NXT star Patrick Clark aka The Velveteen Dream during his WWE NXT run
was arrested on 8/26 for an out of county warrant for "possession of drug paraphernalia" in Florida. He is currently listed as incarcerated at Orange County Jail in Orlando. The details behind the original warrant and the circumstances of Clark's arrest are not yet clear.
Clark, 26, last wrestled for WWE NXT in December 2020 and was officially released in May 2021. He was originally signed by WWE after being eliminated from the 2015
Tough Enough reality series season where he obviously showed the most passion for pro wrestling out of any of the contestants, but was still voted off the show. After a big push from WWE Hall of Famer Lita, WWE hired Clark, sending him to WWE NXT later that year.
Clark eventually debuted as The Velveteen Dream in 2017, a character obviously inspired in part by the late, great musician Prince and at the time, he went to great lengths to remain in character as much as possible when in the public eye. He quickly rose to prominence in NXT with a tremendous series of performances, looking every bit like a future Wrestlemania main event player. His work in the ring, nor his flair for performing, was ever in question.
That momentum sputtered, stalled and died after online allegations of Clark allegedly sending indecent images to underage boys through social media, a story that lit up after a Reddit user began posting screenshots and audio. Clark responded at the time, "Be assured I did not communicate inappropriately with anyone. A private photo of mine was shared without my consent or knowledge and I am working with a third party to look into this matter."
In speaking about the situation in August 2020 to
CBS Sports, WWE's Paul Levesque commented, "You know, in this day today, accusations are made and you take them all very seriously. You look into them the best you can, and you find out what is there and what isn’t. In this situation, [Clark] was also involved in a car accident. That’s what took him off TV. In the moment, all this other stuff happens and you look into it and you find that there is a situation that people bring to everyone’s attention, you look into it and find that it is what it is and there’s nothing there. Everything that we have done, we are comfortable with him continuing to do what he does and everything else. But he had a car accident. It stemmed down to people thought we removed him from TV for different reasons. We didn’t. He was in a car accident. Once he was medically cleared to be able to return to the ring from his car accident, we continued forward the way we did. We looked into what was there and we didn’t find anything.”
While WWE looked into the allegations but found no cause for action, the situation never went away. Levesque was asked about the situation numerous times during NXT media calls to the point he made it clear he would no longer address the issue. At the same time, anti-Velveteen Dream trends exploded on social media, especially Twitter, whenever Clark did appear on television.
EDIT: Found his mug shot on another site:
