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Rip Torn arrested over alleged drunk bank robbery
Rip Torn, the Emmy award winning actor who recently appeared in the NBC sitcom "30 Rock", was arrested late on Friday after police allegedly found him intoxicated and armed inside a Connecticut bank.
Torn, 78, was being held on $100,000 (£63,000) bond after state police responded to an alarm at the Litchfield Bank in Salisbury, the Connecticut town where the actor lives.
Officers allegedly found the actor inside the closed bank "with a loaded revolver" and "highly intoxicated", according to a police report issued on Saturday.
He was charged with burglary, criminal trespass and criminal mischief and weapons charges.
Torn, who won an Emmy for "The Larry Sanders Show" in 1992, has most recently appeared in several episodes of "30 Rock" as network head Don Geiss.
He starred in the hit film "Men in Black" and its sequel, as well as scores of other films and television shows over six decades.
He was nominated for an Oscar for "Cross Creek" in 1983, two years before his wife, Geraldine Page, won the Best Actress Oscar.
Torn, a cousin of actress Sissy Spacek, has been arrested several times in recent years for drunken driving and received a fine, license suspension or probation. He was also acquitted of one charge.
say it isn't so, rip!