John Morales, the actor who portrayed iconic children's savior Scruff McGruff The Crime Dog, has been sent to the pound in what may be one of the most amazingly ironic pseudo-(pseudo-)celebrity fails of all time.

On a fateful day back in 2011 Morales was cruising in around Galveston, Texas, when he got pulled over for speeding, an innocent mistake. Except in an "oops" moment he forgot that he had left blueprints for two pot-grow operations sitting open on the front seat, and was carting around a bunch of seeds in the trunk, which were handily discovered by a real police dog. Deducing that here was a chance to take their own bite out of crime, the cops put two and two together, searched Morales' home, and found a treasure trove of illegal goodies that would have had McGruff submissively peeing on the spot: No less than 1000 marijuana plants, 9,000 rounds of ammunition and 27 weapons, including, of all things, a grenade launcher.

Three years later, Morales finds himself at last being sentenced, and, despite pleading that he wasn't a harm to anyone, the courts were none-too-merciful on the fallen flea bag.

Admonishing the now-sheepish ex-K9, "everything I read about you makes you seem like a scary person," U.S. District Court Judge Vanessa Gilmore sentenced him to no less than 16 years in the doghouse. Which, all things considered, is way more appropriate than simply smacking his butt and sticking his nose in it, especially since, of all people, he really should have known better.

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