Actor Ray Buffer is formally going up towards prosecutors for his comedian e book theft debacle … which incorporates surveillance video of him allegedly swiping merch.

A rep for the San Diego Metropolis Lawyer tells TMZ … Ray’s been charged with one depend of misdemeanor petty theft over the October 2022 incident. We’re instructed the actor pled not responsible at his arraignment in January, and an additional courtroom listening to is scheduled subsequent week.

As we reported, Southern California Comics claims Ray took $600 value of comedian books, and handed cops safety cam footage of the entire caper.

One other comedian store — this one in L.A. County — stated it had comparable footage from their retailer of Ray trying to swipe comics. That proprietor was seen on digital camera booting him out of the shop over it.

The proprietor of Southern California Comics tells TMZ … he was instructed by the Metropolis Lawyer’s workplace that Ray’s lawyer is trying to chop a deal to deal with the matter by paying restitution to the store and getting into a diversion program — however the store proprietor would not suppose such a slap on the wrist is sufficient.

Ray has greater than 100 appearing credit to his identify, showing in TV reveals like “ER” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” and most lately “Into the Wild Frontier”.

We reached out to Ray for remark … to date no phrase again.