Disco ‘cop’ faces drug sentencing
Victor Willis, the original policeman in ‘70s disco band the Village People, has pleaded no contest to drug possession charges.
Willis, 54, appeared in court Wednesday in Redwood City. He was arrested in March in South San Francisco after police stopped his car and, they said, found cocaine and drug paraphernalia. At the time, he faced a bench warrant for failing to appear at his October sentencing hearing in San Mateo County Superior Court on another drug charge.
A judge will decide Sept. 1 whether Willis should be sentenced to a residential drug treatment program or go to prison. He has been in custody since his arrest.
Willis, who co-wrote hits such as “Macho Man,” “YMCA” and “In the Navy,” left the Village People in 1980.
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