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Rip Torn Gets Probation in DUI Case

by admin on May 21, 2009


Salisbury CT

Emmy winner and 30 Rock guest star Rip Torn has been sentenced to probation in a drunken-driving case stemming from his December 2008 arrest.

A Connecticut judge approved the actor’s admission into an alcohol-education program on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Torn, 78, must also retake his driver’s test because of his severe hearing impairment, but he is still allowed to drive.

Torn was arrested near his Salisbury, Conn., home after police saw him driving in a breakdown lane. He pleaded not guilty to illegal operation of a motor vehicle under the influence and failure to drive in the proper lane in January.

Torn had two previous brushes with the law on similar drunken-driving charges: He paid a fine and temporarily lost his license in April 2007, and was acquitted of drunken driving and causing a crash in 2004.

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Rip Torn faces another DWI charge

by admin on January 7, 2009


Salisbury, CT

Rip does look pretty ripped in the mugshot. Not his best look…

Following a wild ride in his ’94 Subaru — with a Christmas tree strapped to the top — Rip Torn has pled not guilty to drunken driven charges in Connecticut.

Two years after losing his license for similar charges in New York, the 30 Rock star entered a not guilty plea Monday to charges that he illegally operated a motor vehicle under the influence and failed to drive in the proper lane in Salisbury, Conn. on Dec. 14.

Details of his arrest have only just been released.

Authorities say Rip was driving his old Subaru in the breakdown lane when he was stopped. A fresh Christmas tree was tied to the top of the vehicle.

After failing a portion of his field sobriety exam — blaming the ground for not being level — he refused a breathalyzer. When he was put in the trooper’s cruiser, he used profanity.

Rip’s potty mouth isn’t out of the ordinary. In 2004, he was arrested in New York City after crashing his car into a taxi and charged with DWI. A police videotape famously showed him cursing and screaming at officers before refusing a sobriety test. He was later found not guilty.

In 2007, the actor paid a $380 fine and lost his license for 90 days after pleading guilty to DWI in North Salem, a town in Westchester County about 60 miles north of Manhattan.

Despite his previous arrests in nearby New York, Rip is a first-time offender in Connecticut and could qualify for the state’s alcohol education program and keep his license.

He’s expected back in court on Jan. 28.

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