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from www.miamiherald.com – His nickname is The Monster. And if you don’t know why, then you probably haven’t seen his body of work.
Raul Armenteros is a prolific actor for adult films, many of them produced by the Miami-based Internet giant Bang Bros.com Productions, which has helped solidify South Florida as a pornographer’s paradise.
But while Armenteros, who also uses the screen name Ramon, is used to baring all in movies, most fans probably did not know that the star of Ramonator I and its sequel, Ramonator II, is also a spiritual man.
Neither did Miami police know when they responded to a call of unusual noises emanating from a van, with the engine off and the windows rolled up, parked in the middle of a lot near Northwest Seventh Street and 37th Avenue on July 11.
It was the middle of the day, and temperatures had reached 90 degrees.
Inside the van, Officer Andres Dominguez reported finding eight roosters, four guinea hens, four pigeons, four goats and one duck.
“I noticed the four goats tied up inside plastic bags,’’ Dominguez wrote in a criminal complaint. “As I opened one of the bags, it was noted that one of the goats had passed. … All the animals in the van appeared to be in distress and lacking of water.’’
As Dominguez waited for animal control to respond and recover the menagerie, Armenteros, 46, and another man, James Arroyo, 44, walked up to the van. Both men claimed ownership of the animals, Dominguez reported.
Armenteros and Arroyo were arrested and charged with 22 counts of felony animal cruelty after telling Dominguez that they planned to make a Santeria ritual “offering’’ of the animals, reported WFOR-CBS 4.
He spent 10 days in jail, unable to post a $110,000 bond. Finally, on Thursday, Armenteros was released under house arrest, according to his case docket. He is scheduled for an arraignment hearing on Aug. 1 before Miami-Dade Judge Leon Firtel.
Despite his many film appearances, Armenteros did not have the money to hire an attorney and requested a public defender. He could not be reached for comment Friday, and his appointed attorney, Assistant Public Defender Luisa Marques Dos Santos did not return a phone message.
While Armenteros’ arrest report makes no mention of his notoriety as an adult film star, word spread quickly among websites such as TMZ.com after his mug shot was released.
According to the Internet Adult Film Database, a website with reviews of pornographic films and actors, Armenteros has yet another stage name: Roberto. Biographical data indicates he is an Aquarius (born Feb. 2, 1965) and his height is 5-feet, 10-inches tall — though police report him being closer to 5-7 and weighing 135 pounds.
Armenteros started performing in adult films in 2004, according to iafd.com, and has 81 films to his credit, most with titles that cannot be printed here but suggest his prodigious physical talents.
He first rose to pornographic prominence as a star of Bang Bros.com Productions, including the Bang Bus movies, a “reality” series of adult films in which actors perform a variety of sex acts while riding in a van around picturesque Miami.
The series spawned a bevy of imitators that helped make South Florida a magnet for Internet porn production, as evidenced by the February uproar in Miami Beach after Miami-based outfit RealityKings.com filmed an adult movie, Island Adventure, on a publicly accessible island between the Venetian and MacArthur causeways — in the shadow of an obelisk memorial to Florida pioneer Henry Flagler.