Actor Bryan Cranston played a drug dealer on TV’s “Breaking Bad,” but in the ’70s he was wanted for more heinous crimes.
“I was once wanted for murder,” Cranston said on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinners on Me” podcast. He revealed that police had issued an APB alert for him and his brother following the murder of his colleague in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Cranston explained how he and his brother got involved, revealing that when they arrived in Florida, they were “travelling around the country on motorcycles” and were “penniless.”
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“So I had to stop and get a job for a while because I had to make money, and I got a job as a waiter at a restaurant called the Hawaiian Inn in Daytona Beach,” he said. Told.
“There was this grumpy chef named Peter Wong, and he hated everyone. There was no way on earth you could ever like him. But he liked women. All the men knew…if we had done that…” If there was something wrong with the kitchen, we had to send it. [the ladies] …He was terrible. ”
Bryan Cranston explained that he and his brother were short on cash and driving across the country when they took a job as waiters at a restaurant in Daytona Beach, Florida. (Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)
The “Malcolm in the Middle” actor said the waitstaff holds a logistics meeting before they start work each day. They also talked about “how rotten and mean Peter Wong was.”
“So we all talked about what we would do if we got rid of Peter Wong. And one person said, ‘Well, I guess I’ll use my wok on him.'” I’m going to put that in the meat grinder.’ … We laugh about all of this,” Cranston said.
Eventually, he and his brother left Florida in hopes of reaching Maine. But the story with Wong didn’t end there.
Bryan Cranston and his brother left Florida at the time of Peter Wong’s murder. (Nathan Congleton/NBC via Getty Images)
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“Well, little did we know that the moment we said goodbye and left work, Peter Wong went missing. He wasn’t found for a week, a week and a half, two weeks. “Mr. Cranston told Mr. Ferguson.
“He was an insecure guy. And what do insecure guys do? They like to think they’re great, so he always carried wads of money with him. I went the dog route,” explained Wong, who would eventually fall into it. Honey Trap” with a woman.
Wong said: “I went to his house or something and KADON! Someone hit him in the head and took his money. They put his body in the trunk of a car.”
Bryan Cranston didn’t know his former colleague had been murdered. (Stefan Cardinale/Corbis via Getty Images)
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Homicide detectives visited Cranston’s former workplace and questioned him, asking if he had “spoken to anyone.”[ed] About hurting, hurting, or harming the chef.”
Mr Cranston was not present, but everyone at the meeting acknowledged that he had previously joked about Mr Wong’s death, but police said they pursued further. They asked if there was anyone in the restaurant who was no longer in the restaurant “jokingly” in the past.
Despite an APB alert being issued against Bryan Cranston and his brother, no arrests were made in connection with Peter Wong’s death. (Terrence Patrick/CBS via Getty Images)
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Police were informed about the Cranston brothers and how they left town.
“So they’re bringing out all this information… Little did we know that they were issuing us an APB to find us and we were somewhere in the Carolinas. And we didn’t know any of these things.” So we’re just moving along. I can only imagine if someone really pulled us to the ground with a gun blade. ”
“And before that happened, they put the pieces together and realized there were some witnesses and some cameras on the dog trail. And they saw what was going on. “And we got this close,” he joked, about nearly becoming a murder suspect.
Representatives for Mr. Cranston did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
