No mugshot of Nick Reiner ?
Executive summary
There are multiple images and videos of Nick Reiner tied to his arrest — surveillance footage from a gas station and photos showing him handcuffed during the arrest — but none of the major outlets or law-enforcement releases cited in available reporting have published or confirmed a standard Department of Corrections-style booking mugshot as of these reports [1] [2] [3]. News organizations uniformly describe arrest photos or surveillance video rather than a traditional booking portrait [4] [5].
1. What authorities and outlets have released
Law-enforcement-linked arrest photos showing Reiner handcuffed at the scene were shared publicly: the Los Angeles Police Department’s Gang and Narcotics Division posted images of him surrounded by officers and handcuffed, material later reported by outlets such as TMZ and Fox News [3] [6]. Major news organizations also obtained and published surveillance video from a gas-station camera that captured Reiner buying a drink and being arrested across the street, which NBC Los Angeles, the New York Times, BBC and others described and ran [7] [2] [8] [4].
2. How those images differ from a mugshot
The images reported — handcuff photos and security-camera footage — are operational arrest images or surveillance clips, not the standardized front-and-profile booking photograph customarily taken at a jail intake desk and distributed as a “mugshot”; coverage repeatedly labels them as arrest photos or surveillance footage rather than booking mugshots [3] [1] [2]. Multiple outlets explicitly identify the material as arrest photos released by LAPD or as CCTV footage from the gas station, without describing a booking portrait [3] [1] [2].
3. Recent handling by LAPD and media nuances
Reporting notes an LAPD social-media post by the Gang and Narcotics Division that shared arrest photos and whose caption was later removed, indicating that police-distributed arrest imagery existed and circulated via news services [3]. Local and national outlets consistently relied on those arrest photos and gas-station surveillance to illustrate the story; none of the cited pieces present or describe a post-booking portrait snapped at Twin Towers Correctional Facility [3] [5] [9].
4. Reasons a booking mugshot may not be available publicly
Public distribution of a booking mugshot can be governed by police policy, ongoing-investigation concerns, or agency discretion; reporting shows the LAPD handled and selectively posted arrest images but does not state whether a formal booking photo was taken and withheld from release or simply not yet published [3] [9]. These reports do confirm Reiner was booked and held without bail at Twin Towers Correctional Facility, suggesting the administrative processes that generate booking photos likely occurred, but none of the sources cite or display a traditional booking mugshot [3] [5].
5. How outlets framed the imagery and possible agendas
Tabloid and entertainment outlets emphasized dramatic arrest photos and police-released images, while mainstream papers focused on the provenance and context of surveillance footage and the criminal case details, reflecting divergent editorial choices about sensational imagery versus evidentiary context [6] [2] [4]. TMZ and Fox foregrounded the arrest photos and police social-media activity [3] [6], whereas the New York Times and BBC leaned on time-stamped surveillance and reporting of the investigation, underlining different audience aims and tone [2] [8].
6. Bottom line
Based on the available reporting, images connected to Reiner’s arrest (surveillance video and police-released arrest photos) are publicly reported and have circulated, but a formal, confirmed booking “mugshot” has not been published or identified in these sources; the distinction between arrest photos and a booking portrait is clear in the coverage, and no source here displays or labels a standard mugshot [3] [1] [2]. If a booking mugshot exists and is released later, that would be a separate disclosure from the arrest photos and CCTV already reported.