Elmore “Rip” Torn was spared jail Tuesday after pleading guilty to criminal charges that he broke into a Connecticut bank while drunk, The Hartford Courant reported.
Judge James P. Ginocchio accepted a misdemeanor plea deal from the “Men in Black” star that included a two-and-a-half year suspended sentence and three years of probation.
Torn, 80, allegedly broke into the Litchfield Bankcorp building in Salisbury — near his home — on Jan. 29.
Police said he was carrying a loaded gun when he broke a window and entered the bank.
Cops found the Emmy-winning actor blacked out drunk and stumbling in the lobby. He was so blitzed he thought he was in his own home.
Prosecutor David Shepack said Torn would need to continue with alcohol treatment programs that the actor had been participating in since a 2008 DUI arrest.
Torn starred in scores of films and television shows over six decades. He won an Emmy for “The Larry Sanders Show” and was nominated for an Oscar in 1983 for “Cross Creek.”