Actor Richard Marcos Taylor, who played a notoriously domineering figure in an Oscar-nominated film, is facing a year of probation after pleading guilty to threatening staff at a Middlesex County bank last year.<\/p>\n
The actor is also alleged to have confronted police officers who responded to the bank. <\/p>\n
In the 2015 movie “Straight Outta Compton,” which depicts the rise of the pioneering West Coast rap group N.W.A, Taylor, a Plainfield native who goes by R. Marcos Taylor plays Marion “Suge” Knight, the imposing bodyguard-turned label boss who founded Death Row Records with Dr. Dre. <\/p>\n
Taylor appeared in Middlesex County Superior Court in New Brunswick on Monday in front of Judge Colleen Flynn. As part of a plea agreement, Flynn sentenced him to one year of probation for making terroristic threats at a TD Bank in South Plainfield on Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
The actor, 41, also a stuntman — and, like Suge Knight, a former bodyguard — is accused of making threats against staff and squaring off with police at the bank.<\/p>\n
“I’d like to put this behind me as soon as possible,” the 6-foot-3-inch Taylor said, his voice small in the court.<\/p>\n