Posted on 05/11/2008 4:40:50 PM PDT by hole_n_one
LOS ANGELES, May 11 (Reuters) - Dennis Farina, a former policeman who built a Hollywood career playing detectives, was arrested on Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport for carrying a loaded gun on his way to board a plane, police said.
Farina, 64, told police he brought the .22 caliber, semi-automatic pistol with him on a drive from Arizona to Los Angeles and forgot it was in his briefcase when he tried to pass through airport security, police said in a statement.
He was scheduled to take a United Airlines flight to his home in Chicago.
"Farina was very apologetic and cooperative with officers," police said. "However, he had no apparent authority to carry a concealed weapon at the time of his arrest."
The actor was initially booked on one misdemeanor count of carrying a loaded firearm and bail was set at $25,000. The charge was upgraded later to a felony after police confirmed the gun was not registered, and bail was raised to $35,000.
Farina was a Chicago police officer for nearly 20 years before taking up acting in the 1980s. He has starred in movies such as "Get Shorty" and "Sidewalks of New York" and is perhaps best known in the role of New York Detective Joe Fontana on the popular television crime series, "Law & Order."
Got news for Fatboy...that gun is ILLEGAL in Chicago, too, not just on the plane. So much for the 2nd Amendment!
Book’em, Dano.
No more double standards!
Don’t they know that stars are allowed to have guns?
All jokes aside I wonder what effect the pending SC decision will have on cases like this.
No firearm should be illegal! (It was just undocumented!)
He did not make his career playing cops. He made it playing mobsters.
I remember him from “Police Story.” He was cool.
From the article......
Farina was a Chicago police officer for nearly 20 years before taking up acting in the 1980s.
One of my favorites. Caught him first in the best of the Hannibal Lecter movies, Manhunter.
BTW Brian Cox is a far superior Hannibal. Absolutely no blood seen but he scares the caca out of you
He’d have had a better argument if he was caught carrying on his person and said, “you know, I carry one on the set so often that I just plain forgot.”
I saw “Manhunter” but not any of the others. Weak stomach!
So Nice to see a fellow “Manhunter” Fan on this board, you have good taste!
ok sometimes I forget my expensive hair gel is in my purse but a gun? sheesh
The charge was upgraded later to a felony after police confirmed the gun was not registered, and bail was raised to $35,000.
Do you have to register all guns in California?
WOW I just crapped my pants! A whole real loaded gun? Unregistered? Luckily it didn’t shoot someone. Another moment and I bet it would have been a massacre. It is a good thing they arrested him, instead of doing something totally insane by overlooking his blatantly obvious attempt at getting a firearm through the frickin airport scanner (and then engage in mass-murder), with the airport employees placing the gun, unloaded, with the checked baggage.
ping
Our forefathers never intended people to have a RKBA that extended outside their homes. I think I heard there was a lost document that made it clear that when you left your home, you had to have your gun in a locked box on your horse or in your buggy if you intended to travel with a gun.
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