CA: Arrest warrant issued for Daniel Baldwin (failed to appear for arraignment on charges)

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[NormsRevenge]

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. - A judge issued an arrest warrant Tuesday for Daniel Baldwin after he failed to appear in Orange County Superior Court on charges that he illegally took another person's car.

"He had an arraignment scheduled and he did not appear so a bench warrant has been issued," said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office. "I was sitting in court. He most definitely did not show up."

The 46-year-old actor's manager, Daniel Spilo, said, "You guys need to get your facts straight and call us back," but declined further comment. A second call to Spilo wasn't immediately returned because he was in a meeting.

Baldwin was charged in December with two felony counts of unlawfully taking a car and receiving stolen property. He could face up to three years in prison if convicted, Emami said.

Baldwin had been free on bail since he was arrested in Santa Monica in November while driving a white 2003 GMC Yukon that had been reported stolen in Orange County.

"The car belongs to an acquaintance of Mr. Baldwin, but he had no permission to take it," sheriff's spokesman Jim Amormino said at the time.

In July 2006, Baldwin made headlines when he drove a rented Ford Thunderbird at more than 80 mph through Los Angeles traffic and crashed into two parked vehicles, police said.

Baldwin, brother of actors Alec, Stephen and William Baldwin, appeared in the TV series "Homicide: Life on the Street" and the movie "Car 54, Where Are You?"

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U.S. actor Daniel Baldwin arrives at the screening of Showtime's 'Our Fathers' at the Director's Guild Theater in Los Angeles May 10, 2005. A California judge ordered an arrest warrant on Tuesday for Baldwin after he failed to show up in court to face charges of car theft. (Michael Buckner/Reuters)

[sgtbono2002]

Why all the Hyperbole. we all know actors are above the law. Especially Liberal actors.

[Hildy]

is he the liberal Baldwin, the fat Baldwin, the religous Baldwin or the Baldwin married to Chynna Phillips. I can never get them straight!

[NewCenturions]

I think the decent Baldwin is Stephen (?)

[RebelBanker]

I think you are right. Daniel is the drunk Baldwin.

[Cyman]

Reminds me of a line in the movie My Favorite Year as Peter O'Toole hangs below two men on a bacony:

First man " I beleive there is an actor beneath us"

Second man " Of course he is beneath us, he's an actor"

[NormsRevenge]

This file photo originally released Nov. 9, 2006, by the Orange County Sheriff's Department shows actor Daniel Baldwin in a booking mug taken in Santa Ana, Calif., after he was arrested Nov. 8, 2006, on suspicion of stealing an SUV in Santa Monica, Calif. The white GMC Yukon Baldwin was driving was reported missing in neighboring Orange County. A judge issued an arrest warrant for Baldwin on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007, after he failed to appear in Orange County Superior Court on charges that he illegally took another person's car.(AP Photo/Orange County Sheriffs Department)