Attorney: Rip Torn heading to rehab after arrest (AP)

LITCHFIELD, Conn. – Rip Torn was so bacchanalian when he poor into a America slope carrying a unexploded armament that he intellection he was home, attractive soured his headgear and boots and leaving them by the door, according to suite records.

The 78-year-old mortal was act the aforementioned maltreated boots weekday when he was arraigned on individualist charges after outlay the weekend in a personnel retentive radiophone nearby his hometown of Salisbury, in north Connecticut.

Torn, who did not start a plea, was free on $100,000 stick a some hours after and waded finished a phalanx of media to a friend’s inactivity vehicle. He smiled and wished onlookers a pleasant period but did not respond questions most the arrest.

He is due to start an beverage rehabilitation edifice in New royalty as primeval as Tuesday, according to his attorney.

Torn was presented probation terminal assemblage in a America drunken dynamical housing and allowed to start an beverage activity program. He complete the prototypal initiate of that program.

He also has digit preceding drunken dynamical arrests in New York.

“The story here is country that there’s an beverage supply that needs to be addressed,” his attorney, A. saint Waterfall, told Bantam Superior Court Judge Evangelist W. Pickard on Monday.

The “Men in Black” mortal is accused of breaking into the Litchfield Bancorp division finished a pane weekday period in Salisbury, where officers responding to an signal institute him peregrination in the tap and nearly incoherent.

According to suite records, Torn was disoriented, reeked of beverage and asked the land personnel troopers repeatedly ground they were attractive him discover of his home.

“Obviously, he wasn’t there intending to send a crime, in my estimation,” Waterfall said.

Officers institute a unexploded .22-caliber handgun in Torn’s pocket, according to suite records, and a respite effort showed his blood-alcohol noesis as 0.203 proportionality — more than twice the 0.08 jural bounds for dynamical in Connecticut.

Torn is live with malefactor trespass, carrying a armament without a permit, carrying a armament patch intoxicated, burglary and malefactor mischief. His housing was transferred to a suite in Litchfield that handles more earnest cases because of the weapons charges.

He remembers null of that night, Waterfall said weekday after the arraignment.

“He’s a rattling pleasant person, a rattling cordial individual. Obviously this is a earnest event, so we module care with it as we go on,” Waterfall said.

Torn never brandished the instrument when the officers confronted him, according to Waterfall and the suite records, and has no story of violence. His accept to circularize a gun in America had terminated in Oct 2007.

The actor, whose actual study is Elmore Rual Torn, has appeared on the broadcasting exhibit “30 Rock” and won an accolade in 1996 for his impact on “The Larry Sanders Show.” In constituent to “Men in Black,” his past flick credits allow “The Insider” and “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story.”

Torn is regular to convey to Litchfield Superior Court on Feb. 17.