Posted on 02/11/2005 8:24:11 PM PST by finnman69
Actor Tom Sizemore has been jailed for violating his probation by failing a drug test after he was caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the results, a Los Angeles County prosecutor says.
Sizemore, 43, who played a battle-hardened sergeant in the war movie "Saving Private Ryan," was placed in custody on Thursday. He was ordered to remain behind bars until a hearing on February 24, unless he posts $25,000 (13,500 pound) bond, Deputy District Attorney Sean Carney said on Friday.
Last month, Judge Antonio Baretto had agreed to allow Sizemore to travel to Cambodia to shoot a new film on condition that he pass a drug test every day prior to his departure.
Carney said the actor's failed attempt to fake his drug test results came on the first day of the new requirement.
The actor is required to undergo random drug tests as a condition of probation for his convictions on separate charges of methamphetamine possession and beating his ex-girlfriend, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.
During Thursday's proceedings, prosecutors told Judge Baretto that Sizemore failed three drug tests in three days, the first after he was caught using a fake penis sewn into his boxer shorts and filled with a clean urine sample kept warm by a heating pack.
Carney said the ruse was revealed when the temperature of the sample proved too cool to have come from Sizemore's body, and he was asked to remove his pants.
According to prosecutors, Sizemore had been caught once before trying to use a similar device, sold over the Internet under the brand name the Whizzinator, and had failed drug tests on at least five occasions.
Carney said two drug tests on the days following the fake penis incident showed Sizemore had methamphetamine in his system.
During the hearing, Sizemore's lawyer told the court that his client was destitute, living in a garage in Whittier, California, and that he was an expectant father, Carney told Reuters.
But Baretto told Sizemore that his drug use was "out of control," adding, "I had hoped and wanted to see a positive performance."
didn't this guy support Bush? weird.
Hey, this urine registers as Sinatra! I know for a fact Sizemore's a Joey Bishop, or maybe Peter Lawford!
Must have been a piss/fail exam....
ROFLMAO!!
I would just love to see the footage from the cam in the testing room HAHAHA!!
You have to hand it to the guy -- it was a brilliant try!!! A fake crank loaded with someone elses urine? Would it have been great if the urine donor had been a heroin junkie!?
Gotcha!!!
Also, don't forget about the trip to the adult toy store!
So much for their "undetectable and fool-proof" claim.
Maybe he should sue the Whizzinator company,,,,recoup his,,,
ehrr,
losses.....
Now he's really going to have to go without the meth,,,,,
That's a riot. I had no idea that such a thing existed.
so, the "product" was too cold?
Must have been the "Hillary" model.......
He should NOT get his money back. He failed to read the instructions. It comes with a 8-hr. heat pad to simulate body temperature and apparently he didn't use it correctly.
This is a perfect place for one of my prison stories. I did the last few months of my stint in a federal prison camp. It was pretty open and laid back after the places I had been incarcerated before. We had gotten a new Lt. at the camp and an interim Administrator who was a real bitch. While you are completely strip searched in higher level prisons after a visit, in a camp it is rare. Well the new Lt. and Admin decided to institute stip searches at the camp. A girlfriend was going to visit me and I asked her to bring a huge, HUGE prostetic penis. Like the one the actor used in Boogie Nights.
This thing had hair on it and everything. I stuffed it in my shirt went to the bathroom and "installed" it. When the visit was over I was taken to a room next to the visiting room for a strip search. When I dropped my pants the guard let out an audible "Woah!"
The next day we had two female officers in the visiting room and out of the corner of my eye I saw one pointing me out to the other one and then holding her hands about a foot apart.
The look of surprise and curiosity (?) in the other guard's face was priceless. I laugh about it even now.
Wow, a bloke with a fake penis sown into his pants.
I bet the girls loved him! ;-)
The scary thing is that I knew such a thing existed.
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