Actor Dennis Farina was charged with a felony Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.
When the weapon was discovered at a security checkpoint, the 64-year-old actor said he had forgotten the .22-caliber handgun was in his luggage, police said.
Farina was booked for investigation of carrying a concealed weapon, said Sgt. Dennis Beacham. Bail was set at $25,000 before police discovered the weapon was not registered. Charges were then upgraded to a felony and bail was increased to $35,000.
Farina was released after...
Dennis Farina has been arrested at Los Angeles International Airport after a loaded gun was found in his carry-on luggage.
Police say the 64-year-old actor told them he forgot the .22-caliber handgun was in his luggage Sunday.
Sgt. Dennis Beacham says Farina was caught at a security checkpoint and booked for investigation of carrying a concealed weapon. Bail was set at $25,000.
Messages were left for Farina\'s attorney, Kevin York, and his agent.
Farina has a role in the Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz comedy \"What Happens in Vegas.\" It opened Friday.
He...
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Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn\'t until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as \"Miss Lillian\" did on those visits.
\"Mama had developed a reputation for expressing unorthodox opinions and not being constrained by any outside advice,\" Carter writes in \"A Remarkable Mother,\" which chronicles Lillian\'s life from her birth in 1898 to her death from cancer in 1983. \"The officials in the State Department were always quite nervous about...
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